{"id":211400,"date":"2025-10-27T00:59:06","date_gmt":"2025-10-26T22:59:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-how-i-failed-maths-went-from-church-drummer-to-zanku-creator-zlatan-shares-life-journey\/"},"modified":"2025-10-27T00:59:06","modified_gmt":"2025-10-26T22:59:06","slug":"nigeria-how-i-failed-maths-went-from-church-drummer-to-zanku-creator-zlatan-shares-life-journey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-how-i-failed-maths-went-from-church-drummer-to-zanku-creator-zlatan-shares-life-journey\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: How I Failed Maths, Went From Church Drummer to Zanku Creator &#8211; &#8211; Zlatan Shares Life Journey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"25\">Zlatan also disclosed how he won the Airtel One Mic Talent Show in 2014 with a pre-recorded song that had not been mixed or mastered.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"30\">In a recent Apple Music interview, Omoniyi &#8220;Zlatan&#8221; Raphael took listeners back to the unexpected beginnings of his music career, a journey kicked off not by ambition but by failure.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"37\">Before he became known worldwide as the creator of the viral Zanku dance, he was simply a pastor&#8217;s son who played drums in church and a teenager who couldn&#8217;t get into university because&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202510240418.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Nigeria\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/nigeria\/\">Nigeria<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zlatan also disclosed how he won the Airtel One Mic Talent Show in 2014 with a pre-recorded song that had not been mixed or mastered. In a recent Apple Music interview, Omoniyi &#8220;Zlatan&#8221; Raphael took listeners back to the unexpected beginnings of his music career, a journey kicked off not by ambition but by failure. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":211401,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[249],"tags":[258,256,6581,28293,35872,9281,7369,6448,11045,257,4687,393,9825,254,52695,27681],"class_list":["post-211400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-church","tag-creator","tag-drummer","tag-failed","tag-journey","tag-life","tag-maths","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-news","tag-shares","tag-south-africa-today","tag-zanku","tag-zlatan"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211400","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=211400"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211400\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/211401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}