Popular Nigerian singer Simisola Kosoko, popularly known as Simi, has urged her fans and everyone who calls her daughter “Duduke” when her real name is Adejare, to stop.
According to Simi in a recent chat with media personality VJ Adams, Duduke was she a sound she used to refer to drum beats as in how her heart beats. She explained that there is no actual meaning to the name so she would love for everyone to stop addressing her daughter by that.
Fans started calling calling Simi’s daughter Duduke following the release of her 2020 hit single “Duduke” which she dropped while she was pregnant with her daughter with her fellow singer and husband, Adekunle Gold.
The track was emotional so that her daughter when she born, was being addressed by that as a nickname as many expectant mothers used the sound for a challenge even.
Meanwhile, according to Simi in her interview, Duduke was just an expression she used in the song to describe the way her unborn child made her heart beat.
She therefore, urged everyone to stop disregarding her child’s real name and substituting the sound for it.
“People call my daughter Duduke, which I don’t like. That’s not her name. It doesn’t even mean anything. Had it meant something good, I would have allowed it. But it’s just a beat, duduke, duduke. That was what I meant. My heart beats like a drum.
“Stop calling my child Duduke [laughs]. But you know what? I get it, it’s coming from a good place, so I try not to react,” she said.
