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“This was before the internet. If you saw Abou in one place and you saw me, you couldn’t tell the difference,” said Akon.
Akon has a shocking revelation. The singer admitted that at the beginning of his career, he would use his brother Abou Thiam as a body double when he was overbooked for shows. “Bu was my double. He was my double,” said the “Locked Up” crooner during an interview with “The Morning Hustle” last week. “This was before the internet. If you saw Abou in one place and you saw me, you couldn’t tell the difference.” Furthermore, Akon’s sibling would even assist him with interviews. “He would do shows for me. I can say it now because it’s been some years,” Akon confessed. “Sometimes I would be double booked and I would send Abou to one radio show while I’m doing another radio show.” Akon quickly enlisted his brother to be a stand-in when he realized all the money that he was missing out on from having to turn down shows. “Bu started off as my hype man on the road. And yeah, I used to get so… we was booked so [much] and I was like, ‘Man, all this money I’m leaving on the table. We cannot leave all this money on the table.'” In fact, he can now chuckle about the fact that his younger brother would step in to help him. “It’s interesting,” the “I Wanna Love You” singer continued. “Now I go back to so many stations and we used to have these conversations, now we laugh about it.” Now that Akon has revealed his truth, Black Twitter has reacted to the singer’s revelation. “Akon, Akun, [and] Acorn been fooling the music industry, was he even really locked up?” asked one user. “Or was that another brother ARob?” Another person added, “I don’t know who Akon is trying to fool cause they look nothing alike.” Check out all of the reactions to Akon’s shocking news below.
— Naru-The Ninja (@NarutoTrickzxTv) October 12, 2022
 Akon, Bu Rapper/singer T-Pain recently claimed that fellow musician Akon would use his brother as a body double to perform at his shows. While speaking with music/culture commentator DJ Akademiks on his Twitch channel about hip-hop in the social media era, T-Pain said he doesn’t perform onstage often due to not having the time. When DJ Akademiks suggested the Auto-Tune pioneer gets a body double, T-Pain clarified that he grew up in the industry with body doubles. T-Pain A body double is someone who appears instead of a famous person in public, usually where their body is seen but their face is not seen clearly. As an example of his upbringing in hip-hop, Pain referenced musical artist Akon using his brother, Abou “Bu” Thiam, as a body double. Pain said that Akon would have Bu pretend to be the Senegalese singer while lip-syncing lyrics onstage. Meanwhile, Akon would be performing at an entirely different location, according to Pain. In the clip, Pain began with:
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The use of body doubles in the music industry appears to have been useful in the early 2000s. Before the internet, there would be no way to check that Akon and his brother Bu were performing at the same time in two different parts of the world. Akon, Bu What are your thoughts on artists using body doubles to perform? Let us know in the comments below! [VIA]
Aliaume Damala Badara Akon Thiam, known mononymously as Akon, is a Senegalese-American singer, songwriter, record producer, entrepreneur, philanthropist, and actor. Akon was born on 16 April 1973 in St. Louis, Missouri, United States. He spent some his childhood time in Senegal before moving back to United States. Abou Thiam who is Akon's brother was born on 25 March 1982 in New Jersey. He started his career as a family affair. Abou "Bu" Thiam's first music business job was handling A&R for "Trouble," the 2004 disc from his brother Akon on Konvict Muzik/Konvict Entertainment. Since then Thiam at his '22' has stayed busy. As co-CEO with Akon of Konvict Muzik, Thiam signed T-Pain in 2005. A year later, the brothers set up Interscope-affiliated Kon Live Distribution--home of Lady Gaga. At Def Jam, Thiam oversaw A&R for Rihanna's hit album Loud and Watch the Throne, the iconic pairing of Jay-Z and Kanye West. He has since inked a joint-venture distribution agreement between Island Def Jam and his Bu Vision, whose roster includes CyHi Da Prynce. "I look at my position as an opportunity to bring a young, current perspective to today's music game," Thiam says. In this picture of Akon and his brother, you hardly identify who is Akon. Content created and supplied by: Kingsaint (via Opera
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