How Alade Aromire Inspired My Acting Career – Yinka Smart
By Bolaji Israel
Fast rising Nollywood actor, Yinka Smart Adefuye better known as Yinka Smart is one of the handsome guys currently rocking the Yoruba movie scene.
He joined the industry in year 2000 and has evolved over the years starting as a trainee and later as a rounded professional who makes such a delight to watch on the big screen.
In an Exclusive Interview with THECONSCIENCEng, Smart revealed the late movie producer, Prince Muyideen Alade Aromire, as the biggest inspiration behind his acting career, describing Aromire’s impact on him as irreplaceable.
The vibrant youthful actor who has featured in top Yoruba movies including The hidden Truth, Omonitan, asa and
Akanke Alata noted that apart from academic training, his tutelage which began in year 2000 under the late Aromire for eight years made him a thoroughbred professional.
He added that he now enjoys the benefits of the tutelage as evident in his versatility, resilience and character.
He also expressed delight in being a part of the fifteen years memorial session organised in honour of Aromire at Disc Communications, Ikeja where fellow actors, broadcasters, producers, fans and other allied players gathered to remember Alade.
Prince Aromire was the pioneer of the Yoruba home video and television entertainment who passed on July 4, 2008 at a tender age of 45.
The late icon was also a director, known for Oro idile (2007), Olórí (2007) and Omo inu oku (2001).
Smart said, “We recently organised a fifteen years memorial service to honour our late boss and mentor, Alade Aromire. He was a true leader and pathfinder in the Yoruba movies industry.
“We decided to honour him and preserve his legacies for his immense contributions to the industry and our lives as individuals. He touched many lives in many ways during his impactful sojourn on earth and deserves to be celebrated as a legend.
“Apart from my degree in Theatre Arts from the Lagos State University, I also trained under the late Alade Aromire for eight years before he died in 2008. This prepared me for what I’m doing today and I can say the benefits are enormous.”
Eulogising Aromire further, he noted that the late icon was one of those who transformed the face of the Yoruba movie industry in many ways.
“From theatre works and magazine publication, he initiated home video production as an alternative to the expensive celluloid format where Hubert Ogunde and Baba Sala held sway.
“His brilliance produced the first home video movie in Yoruba named Ekun in the third of quarter of 1988. This initiation was the beginning of what is tagged as the movie industry in Nigeria.
“He also opened the wider television entertainment up and established first local cable television named Yotomi Telifisan which broadcasted in local language and became a household channel watched by all Nigerians at the time,” he stated.
The single, Lagos-born hulk said he currently enjoys working with Mercyflawless productions but yet to produce any movie by himself.
He has also featured in other movies like The carpenter, The supervisor, Bosun EMPIRE, Raboni, Ariwo Ogbanjo, and Our Apartment amongst others.
He urged his fans to pray for him and follow him online via IG.. @yinkasmart,
TikTok @yinkasmart and Facebook @yinkasmart.
