Grammy-winning Nigerian artist Burna Boy has revealed that starting a family is now his biggest personal goal, but one he’s deliberately putting on hold.
Speaking in an emotional interview with BBC Radio 1Xtra, the Afrofusion star shared his deep desire to become a father, while also explaining why he’s unwilling to take that step amid the demands of his global music career.
“I can’t wait to have a family. That’s my main goal now,” he said. “But it’s not really something that is achievable for me right now because it’s not something I want to achieve on the road,” he explained.
Burna Boy — born Damini Ogulu — reflected on the kind of father he wants to be, drawing comparisons with his own upbringing.
“It’s something I want to do when I can say you know what, let me take three years or four years off… and I just don’t see myself there. To a place where I’ll just be like, let me take four or five years off, go to my children’s schools and do actual things that my dad did for me.”
He praised his father, who may not have been wealthy, but was present. That presence, Burna Boy said, is more important than money.
“My dad was not rich but he was there. Imagine I have kids and they come on this interview and they’ll be like, ‘Yeah, my dad was rich but he wasn’t there. We had everything but he wasn’t there.’”
The hitmaker stressed that he’s not interested in being an absentee parent — a sentiment that reveals a growing maturity behind the megastar image.
“I should give better, not the one or the other,” Burna concluded.
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