How to harness your inner madness | Timi Dakolo | TEDxMaitama

The Speaker equates creativity to madness. In the process of creating something awesome, we often exercise our power of imagination beyond the average person’s expectations.

In his talk, Timi Dakolo, a Nigerian Songwriter and Musician takes the audience through his process of creating and recreating things, people, and situations around him into music. He believes that we were all born creatives and for us to elicit our gifts and become the best version of ourselves we need to harness our inbuilt ability and work on our ideas else they become latent. In the process of bringing out the best of oneself, one would likely appear abnormal to society. One needs to put in extraordinary energy to harvest extraordinary results for ourselves.

This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx Timi Dakolo is a Nigerian Singer, Songwriter, and Music Producer, born in Accra, Ghana, to a Ghanaian mother and Nigerian father from Bayelsa State.

Timi’s first win at a talent show contest was the Port Harcourt-held ‘G.E FACTO’, which propelled him also to win the maiden edition of the reality show “Idols West Africa” in Calabar in 2007.

Timi is a prolific music producer with outstanding accomplishments under his belt with several Headies awards and nominations, two albums, various hit singles like “Iyawo Mi”, “Medicine”, “Everything Amen” and "Obim" and a two-time stint as a judge on The Voice Nigeria.

Timi Dakolo is currently signed to the UK-based record label Virgin EMI. He is married to Busola Dakolo and the couple has 3 children. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx