Afrobeats sensation, Oluwatobiloba Daniel Anidugbe, fondly called Kizz Daniel, has peeled back the layers of his personal life, offering rare insight into the emotional weight behind his new song, Al-Jannah.
In a recent podcast interview, the singer didn’t just talk music he talked loss.
He revealed how losing his father in 2015 shaped him, both as a person and as an artist. His words were clear: “When my dad was alive, he was my best friend.”
The pain didn’t stop there, Kizz Daniel spoke on how life dealt him multiple blows.
“We’ve lost people in the past. We lost our son in 2021. I lost my dad in 2015; my wife lost her mum in 2024; I lost my step-mum; we lost a whole lot of people.”
It was this deep grief that birthed Al-Jannah, a song he describes as a tribute to every soul he and his family have lost.
“‘Al-Jannah’ means ‘paradise’. I wanted to write a tribute song.”
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But the song wasn’t meant to spotlight just one person.
“I wanted to make a song for everyone, not just one person. It’s about our loved ones we have lost in this journey of life.”
Kizz Daniel says one word helped him tie it all together which is friend.
“I think I was able to accomplish that by using the word friend in the song.”
He lost his father on the 9th of May, 2015, just days after turning 21. That wound still lingers.
With Al-Jannah, Kizz Daniel gives his fans more than a melody. He offers something deeper a shared moment of remembrance.