David Adeleke, the world-famous, Grammy-nominated Nigerian singer, who is widely known as Davido, has shared in an interview with The Morning Hustle, an American music podcast, how his father's influence turned what he initially thought was a one-time act into his annual orphanage donations.
The musician said that following a random tweet where he posted his account on his birthday, fans sent him close to $400,000 which his father encouraged him to donate.
He said: "I do it every year, I've done it for like 3 years now. On My birthday two years ago I tweeted my account number randomly on twitter, like yoo it's My birthday, send me money. And then my fans ended up sending me up to like $400,000, it was a big story.
"So I'm thinking,like what should I do, then My Pops called me like, you know you can't keep that money right.
"Then we decided to just give it all away, to a course, which was the motherless babies ,so we did that the first year, we did that the second year back to back.”