Gaise Baba's Biography: Age, Real Name, Wife, Net Worth

Gaise Baba’s Biography: Age, Real Name, Wife, Net Worth

With a lot of Christian artists coming up in the gospel music industry, we can say that the music industry is saturated with different young talents who are trying to make a name for themselves. For some artists, fate smiles at them, enabling them to get famous quickly; however, for others, fate decides the opposite.

For the latter category, it is always intriguing when they eventually become popular after years of hard work. This is a narrative that befits the artist we will be looking at today. His name is Gaise Baba, a gospel artist who eventually became a global hit in 2025 after spending a lot of years in the industry.

Gaise Baba — Image source: Instagram/GaiseBaba

This article will dive into his biography. Let’s get right into it.

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Gaise Baba’s Real Name

Even though Nigerians and audiences all over the world know him as Gaise Baba, his real name is Akinade Ibuoye. He was born on the 5th of August, 1986, in Ekiti State, Nigeria. His father worked as a lawyer, and his mother was a devout Christian who instilled different Christian virtues into him right from a young age.

Gaise Baba’s Education

He undertook his primary and secondary school education in the city of Lagos, after which he got admission into Obafemi Awolowo University to study Economics. After his graduation, he decided to explore the field of music by taking a music business course at a college in the United States named Berklee College of Music. His decision to take this course was what helped him understand the business side of music.

Career

Right from a very young age, Gaise Baba had always aspired to become a lawyer just like his father. Music was not a career option for him, even though he loved it. However, when he finished his secondary school education, he started writing his songs.

He continued writing songs during his university days and his time as an NYSC corps member. After his NYSC, he signed up with Sanctified Records to start his music career properly. The first break he had in his career took place in 2011 when he released his first album “Gaise Baba” with the hit song “Follow Follow”. This album brought him fame, and a lot of people started to reckon with his music.

Gaise Baba’s style of music was different. He combined gospel and afrobeat, making other people online to fing it difficult to categorize his music. His music was not too religious and was not too modern. It was just simple and unique in its way.

Later in 2015, he decided to sign up with Coded Tunes. This record label was owned by ID Cabasa, who was a famous producer at the time.
While working with this record label, he was able to expand the reach of his music. Some of his most popular album releases include: “Logo – The EP,” which was released in 2020, and “A Decade After,” which came out in 2022.

His biggest break eventually came in 2025 after his song “No Turning Back” became a global hit when he collaborated with Lawrence Oyor, who is also a popular gospel singer.

Mentorship Projects

Gaise Baba is not just a music star, but an individual who cares about others and loves to assist in any way he can to help them grow. Over the years, he has established different projects to help the general public in various ways. Some of them include: The LightOut Initiative, which is a program that has been established since 2017.

Its main aim is to equip teenagers with essential life skills. Additionally, he launched a music festival in 2017 named “ARAMANDA Festival”. The sole purpose behind this festival’s establishment is to connect and bring fans and artists interested in modern gospel music together.