The Making Of ‘Timeless’ Album Was A Healing Process – Davido

Multiple award-winning Nigerian singer, David Adedeji Adeleke, professionally known as Davido, has described the creation of his latest album, ‘Timeless,’ as a healing journey. 

The album was launched earlier this year on March, 31 and was a significant body of work.

Detailing the album-making process during an interview with Zane Lowe of Apple Music 1, the ‘Feel’ hitmaker, stated that the process was an intimate one that felt like a healing process for him after enduring the loss of his son, Ifeanyi, on October 31, 2022 while living with his wife and some close family members . 

”Me and the engineer. I actually recorded most of this album in my house where I live with my wife. So it was really only me, her and her sisters at the time, and then I had one of my boys staying with me. But it gave me time to really calm down and yeah, it was a healing process because I was happy that, oh, I’m waking up today. I’m making music today. You know what I’m saying? I’m excited,” he said. 

The Afrobeats superstar further added that he made a total of 28 songs for the album, before selecting the ones that were eventually released.

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In the words of Davido, ”I used to wake up, I remember, sometimes I’d be tired. So, what I used to do is that I’d play, because I was in the gym, the songs that I had made for the album. It was 28 songs after we’d kind of trickled it down, so I’d play the album from one to 28. So the whole time I’m gyming, I’m happy, it’s new music, I’m already imagining. I’m already imagining how people are going to react to it. I’m imagining, I was a little kid, and I’ve been doing this for 12 years and it felt like this is the first time I’m ever going to drop music. 

It’s the first time I’m about to go back on the road. You know what I’m saying? And I wanted the music to be so good because I already knew, me coming back, a lot of people were really, really expecting the album. But I didn’t want to just come out and be like, “Yeah, he’s been through a lot. We’re going to support him.Yeah. So, like I was saying, in the gym, I’d play it, play it, play it. And we finally picked the songs and everything just came together. Everything would just come together, even with the ideas,” he added.