{"id":68362,"date":"2016-09-05T14:04:45","date_gmt":"2016-09-05T14:04:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dnllegalandstyle.com\/dnl\/?p=2391"},"modified":"2017-06-22T17:47:58","modified_gmt":"2017-06-22T17:47:58","slug":"falz-i-was-scared-of-living-in-my-fathers-shadow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dnllegalandstyle.com\/dnl\/falz-i-was-scared-of-living-in-my-fathers-shadow\/","title":{"rendered":"Falz: I was scared of living in my father\u2019s shadow"},"content":{"rendered":"

Folarin \u2018Falz\u2019 Falana, Nigerian artiste\/actor, has revealed that he once harboured fears of dwelling in his father\u2019s shadow.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The 26-year-old Jenifa\u2019s Diary actor, who is the son of Femi Falana, Nigerian activist and lawyer, said this while speaking to contestants in the ongoing MTN Project Fame competition.<\/p>\n

Falz said: \u201cThe fear I had about coming into the limelight was that I would always be in my father\u2019s shadow because he was out there already as a renowned activist and lawyer.<\/p>\n

\u201cBeing an upcoming artist, headlines, newspapers, magazine and online publications tagged me as Femi Falana\u2019s son and I would say \u201cHello, is that my stage name?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cMy fear was that how long is this going to last? How long will people continue to refer to me as his son. But after so much effort and hard work, I arrived at a place where they now refer to my dad as Falz\u2019s dad.\u201d<\/p>\n

The lawyer-turned-artiste also revealed that\u00a0he accidentally discovered\u00a0that his\u00a0faux Yoruba accent could be popular among fans.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think I will say that I stumbled on it because initially, it was always the music,\u201d Falz said.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn early 2014, I was away on holiday with the family and I decided to make a short clip. I just decided to be stupid and the views I got were ridiculous.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was surprised because I was just enjoying myself and from that point, I picked out what it was about me, what it was that made me stand out and it was because I tried to be original.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Folarin \u2018Falz\u2019 Falana, Nigerian artiste\/actor, has revealed that he once harboured fears of dwelling in his father\u2019s shadow. The 26-year-old Jenifa\u2019s Diary actor, who is the son of Femi Falana, Nigerian activist and lawyer, said this while speaking to contestants in the ongoing MTN Project Fame competition. Falz said: \u201cThe fear I had about coming […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t