By Patricia Uyeh

Adekunle Kosoko popularly referred to as Adekunle Gold, is currently on his first ever US tour.  In a chat with Notjustok, he revealed how it took him two years to put his Gold album together.

‘‘I wrote the album for two years, I started writing it around May-June 2014. Although I didn’t have a name then, but I kept writing the songs; writing my experiences. I didn’t have a direction back then, so I was just writing whatever came to me.

”I had written ‘Orente’, ‘Friend Zone’, ‘Beautiful Night’ and others before ‘Sade’, but I decided to drop ‘Sade’ first because it was a cover.”

The ”Orente” crooner  also explained  how his female friend, Zara gave him the idea of what the album title should be.

”And then when I saw the response that people really liked it, I decided to drop ‘Orente’. At that point, ‘Pick Up’ wasn’t even in the mix. So it was a crazy process for me, because I was waiting to feel something before I write. So when it was time to release the album, I didn’t know what to call it, so I was talking to my friend Zara, and she said, ‘why not call the album GOLD’; I hesitated a bit, but I’m happy we are here now.”

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