Adekunle Gold: “Men need to know: it’s okay to talk. It’s okay to cry.”

“I didn’t want my child to live the life I lived. I want to do better than my dad.”

 “Sometimes I only meet my father in dreams—and I cherish it.”

In this Real Talk Coversation Fernando sat down with Adekunle Gold to talk about healing, inspiration, growing up in Lagos, living with sickle cell, manifesting working with Pharrell Williams & Nile Rodgers, closing the Louis Vuitton show, and breaking cycles as a father. This podcast is about purpose, pain, love, and choosing to talk about it.

The Real Talk Host and Creator Fernando believes that talking is needed to feed your soul: 'Don't Hide behind your pain share it and make it your superpower in which you can help others heal as well' In this powerful Real Talk with Fernando, Adekunle Gold traces his journey from Lagos roots and long choir years filled with early rejection to global stages. He opens up about living with sickle cell (“Know your genotype. SS should not marry AS we must reduce sickle cell.”), and how discipline, care, and awareness shaped his path. He shares the studio story that led to working with Pharrell Williams and Nile Rodgers (“One tweet from Pharrell changed my life.”), and the surreal moment his music sounded on the Louis Vuitton runway a full-circle win he’s learning to truly celebrate (“I was always chasing wins. I’m learning to sit in them.”).

The conversation goes deep on grief, therapy, and masculinity (“Men need to know: it’s okay to talk. It’s okay to cry.”), then turns to fatherhood choosing presence, love, and a better blueprint than the one he received (“I didn’t want my child to live the life I lived. I want to do better than my dad.”). Closing with a look at his new album FUJI—a tribute to heritage, rhythm, and mastery—Adekunle honors the sound that raised him (“Fuji is the soundtrack of Lagos. Drop it anywhere and you have to dance.”) and reflects on memory, loss, and hope (“Sometimes I only meet my father in dreams and I cherish it.”)

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