6 things Ade Bantu talked about with CNN

The renowned Cable News Network gets up close and personal with the Afrobeat musician to find out what makes him tick as an artist.

He gets talking about the much talked about Afropolitan vibes which holds every third friday of each month.

Here are five things we gathered from his engaging chat with CNN African voices.

1.Bantu believes that the courage of his father as a Nigerian picking out a German lady for a wife and vice-versa inspired him and gave him hopes to live out his dream.

2. Ade tells CNN he delved into music for the passion and because he felt a certain connection with it and not because of fame or money that comes with it.

“It’s not about the fame, it’s not about the money I think I just want to look back and say whatever I did, I did as sincerely as possible, and that I was able to actually transcend my fears.”

3 ."We started Afropolitan vibes to be at the forefront of live music movement and scene in Nigeria and on the continent and what we did was to literally force about a 100 friends to attend the first Afropolitan event, threatening to 'unfriend' anyone that refused to honour our invite. So friends came and invited others by word of mouth and it grew organically from there."

4. "There are about five thousand people in attendance without a television or radio partnership, so it’s been very very organic and I think that’s what it’s all about ,It’s about making something believable because people can connect to it. And it’s about a certain energy, where we don’t discriminate, we don’t price people out of the experience, rich, poor, people that have lived outside the country, migrant workers, or expatriates as they like to call themselves, so it’s all that diversity we are celebrating with our energy, with the vibes, Afropolitan vibes.”

5. About the performance, the singer says he puts a lot of work into putting up the shows, and neither he or his band  get paid for the shows; their reward, he says, is looking into the crowd.

6. “What I love about the energy here, people engage you when you perform, What is important is I want to break barriers in a very practical way, when you have a CEO next to a student, and they are both jamming and go like…woo did you see that, it rubs off you in a certain way, that is how you nurture dreams”.

Watch Adebantu and band perform at Afropolitan vibes below.