{"id":101854,"date":"2019-08-11T06:50:00","date_gmt":"2019-08-11T06:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nigerianfinder.com\/?p=101854"},"modified":"2019-08-13T06:51:52","modified_gmt":"2019-08-13T05:51:52","slug":"adekunle-gold-biography-net-worth-and-25-things-you-never-knew-about-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigerianfinder.com\/adekunle-gold-biography-net-worth-and-25-things-you-never-knew-about-him\/","title":{"rendered":"Adekunle Gold: Biography, Net worth And 25 Things You Never Knew About Him"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Adekunle Kosoko<\/strong>, traditionally known as\u00a0<strong>Adekunle Gold, <\/strong>a nephew to legendary Nollywood actor, Jide Kosoko is a Nigerian singer, songwriter and graphic designer. Adekunle Gold personally described his genre of music as urban highlife during an interview. In 2014 he released a single &#8220;Sade&#8221; which received massive airplays on various Nigerian radio stations. His follow-up single, titled &#8220;Orente and Pick Up&#8221;, also received positive reviews from music critics. There are a lot unknowns about Adekunle Gold, his biography, music, lifestyle, relationship status, house, cars, and net worth.<\/p>\n<p>In 2015, he was nominated in the Most Promising Act of the Year category at the 2015 City People Entertainment Awards, and was also nominated in the &#8220;Best Alternative Song&#8221; category at The Headies 2015 for his song titled &#8220;Sade\u201c He is currently signed to YBNL Nation he has been able to carve a niche for himself in the group (YBNL) and the Nigerian music industry as a whole.(It is also rumored that he is about leave YBNL to start up his own record label)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-101855 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/nigerianfinder.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Adekunle-Gold-330x186.jpg\" alt=\"Adekunle Gold\" width=\"330\" height=\"186\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nigerianfinder.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Adekunle-Gold-330x186.jpg 330w, https:\/\/nigerianfinder.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Adekunle-Gold.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 330px) 100vw, 330px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>As the \u2018Pick Up\u2019 vocalist, <strong>Adekunle Gold<\/strong>\u00a0looks forward to another great year; these are probably the 25 things nobody probably has told you about him.<\/p>\n<h2>25 Things Nobody Probably Has Told You About Adekunle Gold<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Adekunle Gold\u2019s real name is Adekunle Kosoko and he hails from Lagos Island, permit me to say he is an Isale Eko dude.<\/li>\n<li>He is a prince of Lagos and member of the famous Kosoko royal house of Lagos.<\/li>\n<li>He is the only son of his parent. He has 3 sisters, though one is of blessed memory.<\/li>\n<li>He is also a nephew to legendary Nollywood actor, <strong>Jide Kosoko<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>He wrote his first song at the age of 15 and went on to join the junior choir of his church.<\/li>\n<li>He studied Arts and Design at the Lagos State Polytechnic while majoring in Graphics.<\/li>\n<li>Adekunle added Gold to his name after a session in church with the inspiration coming from an excerpt of the pastor\u2019s preaching.<\/li>\n<li>In the early days of his career, Adekunle was a member of a boy band called The Bridge.<\/li>\n<li>The group dropped a couple of singles and featured acts like <strong>Skales<\/strong> and <strong>GT the guitarman<\/strong> before it was disbanded.<\/li>\n<li>Adekunle Gold is also a sculptor, painter and graphics designer.<\/li>\n<li>Before getting signed unto <strong>Olamide<\/strong>\u2019s YBNL, Adekunle Gold had a working relationship with the label.<\/li>\n<li>He designed YBNL\u2019s official logo.<\/li>\n<li>Before his entry into the mainstream music industry, Adekunle Gold went viral after photo-shopping himself into photos of popular celebs, which earned him the moniker, \u2018King of Photoshop\u2019.<\/li>\n<li>He was number 3 on the list of the most searched persons on Google in Nigeria in 2015.<\/li>\n<li>His debut single, \u2018Sade\u2019 is actually a cover of <strong>One Direction<\/strong>\u2019s \u2018Story of my Life\u2019.<\/li>\n<li>The single won the Best alternative song award at the recently held 2015 Headies awards ceremony.<\/li>\n<li>Forget his announcement on \u2018Sade\u2019; Adekunle Gold is not up to 30 years. Yes, he lied!<\/li>\n<li>Adekunle Gold is in a relationship with Simi of X3M (Xtreme Music)<\/li>\n<li>His follow-up single, \u2018Orente\u2019 like his debut was inspired by a true-life experience.<\/li>\n<li>Adekunle Gold is reportedly in a relationship with \u2018Jamb Question\u2019 singer, <strong>Simi<\/strong> although both acts have kept mum about the relationship and are rarely seen together in \u2018public\u2019.<\/li>\n<li>Simi actually helped Adekunle Gold define his style and helped named his genre, \u2018Urban Highlife\u2019.<\/li>\n<li>Simi mixed and arranged Adekunle Gold\u2019s three singles, \u2018Sade\u2019, \u2018Orente\u2019 and \u2018Pick Up\u2019.<\/li>\n<li>He won the award for \u2018Revelation of the Year\u2019 at the 2015 edition of AFRIMA.<\/li>\n<li>Adekunle Gold has made his movie debut on <strong>Kunle Afolayan<\/strong>\u2019s upcoming thriller, \u2018The CEO\u2019.<\/li>\n<li>The singer is also called YBNL Toaster by fans and some colleagues.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>ADEKUNLE GOLD\u2019S NETWORTH<\/h2>\n<p>Adekunle Gold currently has no endorsement with any brand. He depends on shows, collaborations and social media tweets. Industry source have it that he charges between 700,000 to 1 million Naira per show, this depends on the brand in question.<\/p>\n<p>His exact net worth cannot be ascertained but inner source have it that his current net worth is between\u00a010 to 15million Naira, watch out for this young man.. he has a whole lot to offer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Adekunle Kosoko, traditionally known as\u00a0Adekunle Gold, a nephew to legendary Nollywood actor, Jide Kosoko is a Nigerian singer, songwriter and &#8230; <\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more-container\"><a title=\"Adekunle Gold: Biography, Net worth And 25 Things You Never Knew About Him\" class=\"read-more button\" href=\"https:\/\/nigerianfinder.com\/adekunle-gold-biography-net-worth-and-25-things-you-never-knew-about-him\/#more-101854\" aria-label=\"More on Adekunle Gold: Biography, Net worth And 25 Things You Never Knew About Him\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":101855,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[97,16,94],"tags":[1114,1117,1116,1115,1118],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/nigerianfinder.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Adekunle-Gold.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6w1sx-quO","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerianfinder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101854"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerianfinder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerianfinder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerianfinder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerianfinder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101854"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/nigerianfinder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101854\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":102656,"href":"https:\/\/nigerianfinder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101854\/revisions\/102656"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerianfinder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/101855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerianfinder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerianfinder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerianfinder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}