30 Facts About Wizkid As He Clocks 30
One of Nigeria’s finest artist, Ayodeji Balogun also known as Wizkid is among the artists who are putting the country’s name on the global map with his outstanding skills and talent.
He as proven to the world that Nigerians has what it takes to make a resounding impact in the global music industry despite the competition and number of artists around the world.
As Wizkid clocks 30-years, Everyvery.ng deemed it fit to let you know more about the artist to have a better understanding of him, his career and achievements.
1. His name is Ayodeji Ibrahim Balogun and he was born on July 16, 1990, in Lagos into a family of six as the last and only son in the family.
2. He changed his stage name from Lil Prinz to Wizkid in 2006 and the new stage name is the one he has been using up till the time of filing this report.
3. Wizkid finished from Ijebu Ode Grammar School before gaining admission into the Lagos State University where he later dropped out and didn’t finish from Lead City University where he later went to.
4. He started his music career at the age of eleven-years-old with the Glorious Five group and later signed to Banky W’s EME record label in 2009.
5. Wizkid dropped his first studio album titled Superstar in 2009 and released the hit song Holla At Your Boy in 2010
6. The singer, whose favourite Color is black got his first car in 2011 Black Honda Accord.
7. Awards won by Wizkid include Dynamix All Youths Awards, Headies Award, MOBO as Best African Act, City People Entertainment Awards, BET Award as Best International Act Africa, Ghana Music Awards, Channel O Awards among many others.
8. His Break-Out single is titled Holla At Your Boy.
9. Wizkid’s first International Collaboration was with Akon on the song titled Don’t Dull (Remix).
10. He has a house in Lekki and the house worth is stipulated to be around 140million naira.
11. Wizkid has performed alongside World Class Acts like Chris Brown, Akon, Young Jeezy, Kardinal Official.
12. He popped 300million naira Champagne during his 23rd birthday.
13. Wizkid signed a one-year $350,000 U.S endorsement deal with Pepsi reportedly in 2012 and he travelled to Beirut, Lebanon, with Nigerian singer, Tiwa Savage for a commercial shoot.
14. He is the youngest Nigerian artiste to put out an internationally recognized album.
15. In 2012, E.M.E signed a joint deal on Wizkid with Akon’s Konvict and later floats his Record Label, Star Boy with acts: Maleek Berry, Legendury Beatz, Mutayo and L.A.X.
16. According to FeedBuzz.com, Wizkid’s hit Track Azonto is 3rd Place on the non-American songs of 2013.
17. Wizkid was booked all through December of 2012 and had to shuttle between 4-5 shows in 2012.
18. Wizkid, whose Tease Me song was spurred out of his provocative conversation with his Dad had his biggest 2013 track, Samba recorded and produced in 1hour by Sarz.
19. He is currently the Most Influential African artiste on Twitter with his with his 6.8 million followers on the social media platform.
20. Wizkid has both Local and International collaboration more than any other Nigerian artiste.
21. His first solo album which was released in 2011 with E.M.E titled, Superstar has 17 tracks.
22. His album titled Superstar was released in 2011 under Empire Mates Entertainment.
23. He released his second album in 2014.
24. Wizkid has worked with music stars in Nigeria and also worked with foreign stars including Drake, Chris Brown and Beyonce.
25. The artist became the first Nigerian singer to make it to Billboard’s Twitter Last 24 hours chart with his guest feature with Drake on the song titled One Dance in 2016.
26. Wizkid has released three albums which are titled Superstar, Ayo and Sounds from the Other Side.
27. Wizkid welcomed his first son, Boluwatife in 2011 at the age of 21 with his baby mama, Shola Ogudugu and in 2016 he welcomed his second son, Ayodeji with his second baby mama, Binta Diallo and later gave birth to his third son, Zion with his manager, Jade Pollock.
28. He has recorded much success in his career as he sold out a 20,000 O2 Arena for his concert in 2018 in the United Kingdom and later had a sold-out concert the Royal Albert Hall’ in London.
29. One of Wizkid’s hit singles, Soco became the most searched words on Google for the year in 2018.
30. Wizkid has 10.9 followers on Instagram.
Happy birthday to Wizkid.