{"id":9618,"date":"2023-12-31T12:03:21","date_gmt":"2023-12-31T12:03:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/why-i-dumped-banking-for-music-id-cabasa\/"},"modified":"2023-12-31T12:03:21","modified_gmt":"2023-12-31T12:03:21","slug":"why-i-dumped-banking-for-music-id-cabasa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/why-i-dumped-banking-for-music-id-cabasa\/","title":{"rendered":"Why I dumped banking for music \u2013 ID Cabasa"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Veteran record producer, Olumide Ogunade, popularly known as ID Cabasa, has said he worked with two banks before quitting the banking profession for music.<\/p>\n<p>He said he took the decision because music has always been his passion.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking in a recent episode of the Debbie Show TV, Cabasa said he studied medicine for two years before dropping out to study economics.<\/p>\n<p>He said, \u201cI did medicine for two years, then went to study economics. After my masters, I worked with two Nigerian banks and then I went into music.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy parents wanted me to be a doctor. When I got admission to study medicine, I knew I was not going to do that. So I wrote another JAMB and was admitted into Lagos State University to study economics. I couldn\u2019t study music then because it wasn\u2019t seen as a career, unlike now. Initially, I was doing music just for the passion.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDespite studying economics, I always knew I would do music. Not just music. If I tell people that music was not the first thing that I did in art, they won\u2019t believe me. It was acting.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Why I dumped banking for music \u2013 ID Cabasa<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Veteran record producer, Olumide Ogunade, popularly known as ID Cabasa, has said he worked with two banks before quitting the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9619,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4029,15],"tags":[4034,180],"class_list":["post-9618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-id-cabasa","category-news","tag-cabasa","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9618","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9618"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9618\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}