Nigerian singer, Ikuforiji Olaitan, popularly identified as Oxlade, has revealed that his family and religious backgrounds led him to shun smoking and taking exhausting remedy.

Naija Info experiences that the ‘Ku Lo Sa’ hitmaker made this identified in a candid interview with gospel singer, Tim Godfrey.

The Afrobeats star emphasised that he’s from a Christian and musically inclined family.

Consistent with Oxlade, his song profession started within the choir, which formed his character and capacity to song.

He acknowledged, “I don’t smoke. I don’t elevate remedy. I became as soon as a choir coordinator for every age neighborhood; kids’s church, teen church, the early life choir and the mass choir.

“All my lifestyles I even were within the choir. I became as soon as raised in a musically inclined family. My grandma is a deaconess and an fabulous singer. My grandad feeble to be a multi-instrumentalist. My mum could presumably perchance well dance and instruct. I actually possess a pastor in my family. My gospel song writing is de facto the categorical. Gospel song is the categorical song.

“Despite whichever standpoint I’m considered, you must serene know that God is equally blessing me as much as he’s blessing you. It is possible you’ll presumably perchance well’t tour 40 cities alongside with your debut album if God doesn’t desire it to happen. As lengthy as God is ordaining these steps and actions, there could be de facto nothing for me to fret about.”