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Late MKO Abiola’s Daughter, Waliyah Now Into Music

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One of MKO Abiola’s daughters, Waliyah Abiola has delved into music. 
Waliyah said she hates to tell people she is an Abiola, so people won’t 
think she's trying to use her father's name to step up her career. She 
said she has been doing her music without the name, and she is 
comfortable with it.<br />
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She also said, her father loved music and would have supported her if he was still alive. Here is what she told Punch. Pretty girl!<br />
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Were your father to be alive, would he have supported this?<br />
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I think my father, the late MKO Abiola, would have supported me and 
would have been quite tickled by the whole thing. He loved proverbs and 
music; therefore, what I am doing is not strange. He loved to sing and 
was in a band. He often sang at weddings and as a school boy in 
Abeokuta. I have fond memories of him singing, “The Beatles” songs in 
the kitchen. This must have been a relic from the time when he was 
studying to become an accountant in Scotland. I am not relying on my 
family name to gain acceptance. Many people have known me on the music 
circuit for a year now and don’t even know my family background. It is 
something I never bring up and this is the first time I’m discussing it 
in an interview. I am proud of whom I am but as I don’t want to trade on
 it, I simply never mention it. I’m not very comfortable discussing it, 
even now.

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