Tunde Baiyewu

Tunde Baiyewu - the Lighthouse Family frontman who has achieved in excess of 20 million global sales - was born in the UK to Nigerian parents, but returned to Nigeria aged 4, following the death of his father. Tunde was immediately faced with the challenge of a new language (learning Yoruba would later heavily impact his singing style), and a new way of life; from the streets of London to the starkly rural school at Etiki, with the daily responsibility of collecting water from the stream to wash school-clothes. The lack of a father-figure saw Tunde become "withdrawn, introspective" and that pensiveness can still be felt in his writing today. "There's a need for me to withdraw into my own space," as he puts it. When Tunde Baiyewu was in his teens, his mother remarried. Tunde's new stepfather was Olusegun Obasanjo: a household name in Nigeria, and that time, the head of the country's military. Obasanjo was to have a deep impact on Tunde's life: from avoiding assassination in 1976 (when