Nigerian music icon opens up about fatherhood, public misconceptions, and the shy man behind the superstar
Innocent Idibia has spent 20 years in the spotlight, but the man known as 2Baba says the public still gets him wrong.
“The biggest misconception about me is that I’m a womanizer,” the 50-year-old singer said in an exclusive interview with the Voice of Nigeria. “I like women. I’m just straightforward. But I’m a lover boy. I love hard.”
The afrobeats pioneer, whose hits have scored weddings, funerals and everything in between, spoke with rare honesty about the private man behind the public figure. He addressed fatherhood, marriage, and the shy personality he said his profession forces him to suppress.
2Baba is father to eight children. The number often invites speculation and judgment, but his own account is quieter and heavier.
“I feel blessed and happy,” he said. “But the sadness comes from the fact that I haven’t gotten to spend the type of time I should have spent with them collectively. It does something to me sometimes.”
He described his children as “amazing, brilliant people” and expressed regret about the years spent on the road rather than at home. “I just wish I was there more. It touches me from all corners.”
His marriage to Natasha Idibia has long been the subject of public commentary, much of it unkind. Suggestions that she is controlling or exerts undue influence over him have followed the couple for years. 2Baba pushed back directly.
“Everybody has a say in everybody’s business now. Sometimes people say very nasty things,” he said. “You grow thick skin, but sometimes it gets to you.”
He described his wife without qualification: “Reality is reality. She’s a brilliant woman, a strong woman.”
The singer also revealed a side of himself fans rarely see. Despite commanding crowds across the world, he said he is naturally introverted.
“My profession doesn’t permit me to be shy, but I’m actually a very shy person,” he said. “Sometimes I just want to be alone and chill. Other times I want to hang out. I like nature. I have my moments.”
There were no industry scandals, no rivalries rehashed, no headlines manufactured for traction. Just a man two decades into an extraordinary career, still trying to be understood.
“I’m a lover boy,” he said again. “I love hard.”
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