That he is a talented artiste is not in contention. And that the bulky dude sings Highlife/Juju is also a known fact. But what most of Taiwo Oguntade's fans and admirers in the entertainment industry don't seem to understand or are mixing-up, is the real reason he has "Elesemeta" attached to his popular stage name, Taye Elesemeta.
For some of his mischievous friends especially, in the Ogun State media circle being the state where Taye Elesemeta is based, and a number of his "dirty-minded" fans alike, the "Elesemeta" Big Tee, as he is otherwise known, carries in his artistic reference has an allusion to his manliness with a bearing on the organ between his two legs. Matter-of-factly, there is always a tendency towards that thinking by most of the people each time "Elesemeta" is mentioned to their hearing in relations to Big Tee.
Recently, Saheed Ojubanire Online had a no-holds-barred interview session with the widely travelled singer at his Abeokuta office and the question was put to him point blank. "Why do you use Elesemeta as part of your stage name?" "Is it really about the risque thoughts that rush to people's mind?" "Are we talking about 'third leg' the way many people would understand and interprete it"? The questions came as a bombardment.
And he answered calmly: "the meaning of that 'Elesemeta' is my work. Before I started travelling out of the country to America, to London, to Europe, my live CDs and records had been in those countries before me. And that is my 'third leg'! So, people out there had started looking out for me through my third leg which had been with them and I later took my two legs to meet them out there eventually."
So, is it safe to say he started using the stage-name Taye Elesemeta when he started travelling abroad? That question was posed to him as well. "Yes," he replied.
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