Oluwaseun Adedimeji, popularly known as ‘The Seun Rave’ is a Nigerian show promoter, radio host, music curator, hypeman and an artiste & repertoire (A & R). In this interview by ADERONKE ADESANYA, he talks about his career and his experiences in the industry. Did you have support of family and friends when you told them you wanted to go into entertainment? I have always had passion for music and I thought about becoming a musician myself.
Whenever I sing, people often compliment how good I sound. That further strengthened my decision in wanting to do music. However, the turning point was the day I told my Dad about a group assignment I had to complete at my friend’s house.
There was indeed an assignment but I had other motives. So I went to my friend’s house along with extra clothes because I had a party to attend on that day. I went ahead to attend the party and had a very good time and then on my way back home, I got word that my Dad had been calling my friend’s phone to find out my whereabouts but could not get across to me.
My Dad smelt something funny, headed out to my friend’s house that I had told him about earlier. On getting there, he asked to see me and my friend who happened to be a Church boy, told my Dad I had not stepped into their house that day. My Dad began to fidget thinking something bad had happened to his son.
My “Church boy” friend decides to call a mutual friend whom he thought could be hanging in the same place as me. He got through to .