While having a thriving career now, Tayo Amokade, better known by his stage name Ijebu, encountered challenges in the beginning.
In an interview with Saturday Beats, the humorous actor described some of the challenges he had when he first started performing.
He reported that when he first entered the field, he ran into a number of obstacles.
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But, even though they require some form of training, I won’t call them challenges.
The actor and director Muyiwa Ademola’s Authentic Academy of Theatre in Ibadan is where I acquired my training.
For seven years, he served as my coach.
In addition to other things, he showed me how to face the audience and move the camera.
While having a thriving career now, Tayo Amokade, better known by his stage name Ijebu, encountered challenges along the way.
“I said on my Instagram Live video recently that anybody coming into the industry has to be patient, focused and prayerful. One could spend 10 years in the industry without succeeding and one may spend only six months and people would like you. You also need to be humble.”
The Ogun State-born actor commented on his relationships with his female admirers by saying, “It is excellent to marry a bride that was destined for one.
My wife is a big help to me.
She understands that I will be at filming sites whenever I tell her I am going to the set.
Those who watch my Instagram Live broadcasts tell me they love me and that they want to get to know me better.
Because they are my female admirers, I can’t fight them. At the end of the day, I may advise them and become close friends with them.
I don’t have to have affairs with them. Future assistance from one another is still possible.
Whenever I went home, dad would frequently give me advice and recite my praise poetry (oriki).
Ijebu, whose father passed away last year, said he missed his counsel. He said, “I miss his counsel. They didn’t talk to me in the Ijebu dialect when I was growing up.
My brothers pushed my parents to give me “genuine” Yoruba instruction. I had to start calling some of my friends who were fluent in the language though when God said it was time. My father also taught me the accent and how to speak it correctly. I really do miss him.
