It is hard to believe that a guy from a large and low-income family has managed to promote his own music portal without money and advertisement, and then to sell it to a major communication portal in Nigeria.
But, nevertheless, Dayo Obiora became the local legend, for his friends firstly. It was the wish to fulfill their dream, which led the teenager to the idea of creation of his own music portal.

It all started with a dream and absence of voice.
The teen admitted that he had always dreamed of becoming a musician and even tried to play the guitar. Unfortunately he had neither a good ear for music, nor the voice. His parents, a father, who is a driver, and a mother, who is a primary school teacher, wanted their son to become a successful doctor. Therefore they did their best to collect money for his education. Every month they saved small sums in order to pay for college. However, the boy had low interest in medical handbooks. In order to get closer to his dream, Dayo started communicating with street musicians, which later created a small music band and played in the streets of the city. This is how the guy got his musical surrounding.
According to Dayo, when he listened how his friends play he realized that he would never become a musician. Walking through the streets he also saw scores of talented people who sing, play, but remain unnoticed. And one day he made a decision to help his friends- musicians to become famous, to make their music available for everyone, at all cost. The pocket money, provided by his mother for buying a lunch, was saved in a moneybox. His initial dream was to collect a sum necessary for recording a music album, and to donate this money to friends. The teen also confessed that in many cases he gave his dribblets to musicians in the streets. Not because out of pity for them, but because his heart was aching as the teen saw indifferent faces of people passing by, and heard wonderful music at the same time. The idea that he had no talent, but many other gifted people who had it, but still remained unnoticed, made Dayo really sad.

Music portal just in 2 months.
The parents presented a second-hand computer for Dayo’s birthday. After watching tons of music home videos on the Internet, the teen realized

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