American Singer
OpenLife Nigeria reports that legendary Senegalese- American Singer, Aliaune Damala Badara Akon Thiam, is currently not a happy man.
The 49 years old popular singer, known as Akon, rose to prominence in 2004 following the release of “Locked Up” (featuring Styles P), the first single from his debut album Trouble (2004), followed by the second single “Lonely”.
His second album, Konvicted (2006), received three Grammy Award nominations for Best Contemporary R&B Album, and for Best Rap/Sung Collaboration for “Smack That” (featuring Eminem) and “I Wanna Love You” (featuring Snoop Dogg).
Both singles became Billboard Hot 100 top ten hits, followed up by “Don’t Matter” and “Sorry, Blame It on Me”.
Despite these successes and many others, the celebrated singer and businessman said he was much happier when he was poor.
He noted that the more money human beings make, the more problems they accumulate.
Akon said this late 2021 while defending a statement he made in the wake of actor Michael K. Williams’ death earlier.
The artist had used Williams’ death as proof that the more money some makes, the more problems they accumulate.
Speaking in an interview with TMZ, the American singer said, “Nobody can sit there and tell me, that I didn’t go through poverty. I was the young African kid, barefoot and playing soccer in the village with no electricity, no running water, I knew what that looked like – believe me, I know what poverty looks like.
But I also know what success looks like, and from my personal experience, I’m having more problems successfully dealing with all that comes with success than I had when I was poor. I was actually happier when I was poor.”
You know, this business creates this, like, environment where everyone’s wearing a mask, no one tells you what’s really going on in your life, so real friends can’t even really advise you ’cause we don’t really know what’s happening,” he added.
“’Cause we put on this facade of success but yet behind the face there’s so much happening. The famous and the rich go through more issues than the poor. You know when they say ‘more money, more problems,’ that’s a real thing.”
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