WIZKID

ABOUT WIZKID

Ayodeji Ibrahim Balogun, known professionally as Wizkid, is a Nigerian singer and songwriter.

He began recording music at the age of 11 and released a collaborative album with the Glorious Five, a group he and a couple of his church friends formed. In 2009, Wizkid signed a record deal with Banky W’s Empire Mates Entertainment (E.M.E).

Wizkid later rose to the limelight after releasing “Holla at Your Boy“, the lead single from his debut studio album, Superstar (2011), which also spawned the singles “Tease Me/Bad Guys” and “Don’t Dull“.

In September 2014, released the self-titled second studio album, Ayo. The album was supported by six singles, including the song “Jaiye Jaiye“. Wizkid left E.M.E after his contract expired.

In 2016, Wizkid achieved international recognition following his collaboration with Drake on the hit single “One Dance“, which reached number-one on the US Billboard Hot 100, and topped the charts in 14 additional countries.

The song broke multiple records, making Wizkid the first Afrobeats artist to appear in the Guinness World Records. In March 2017, he signed a multi-album deal with RCA Records; and released his third studio album Sounds from the Other Side, later that year.

The album was supported by five singles, including “Come Closer” featuring Drake.

FACTS ONLY

⭐ Wizkid was the most-streamed Nigerian artist of all time on Spotify, with over 3.4 billion streams across all credits.

⭐ Won a Grammy Award for Best Music Video

⭐ Became the first Nigerian song to chart on the Billboard Hot 100

⭐ He grew up in an interfaith household with twelve female siblings.

⭐ His mother is a Pentecostal Christian and his father practices Islam

⭐ Wizkid established his label imprint Starboy Entertainment in March 2013.

⭐ He has three sons with three different women. The children were born in 2011, 2016, and 2017.

⭐ In 2017, Billboard reported that Wizkid signed a multi-album worldwide record deal with RCA Records.