Ayodeji Ibrahim Balogun<\/strong> (born 16 July 1990), also known as Wizkid<\/strong> is a Nigerian singer, songwriter and performer. Wizkid started recording music at age 11 and manage to release a collaborative album with the Glorious Five<\/strong>, a group he and a couple of his church friends formed. In the Year 2009, he signed a record deal with Empire Mates Entertainment (E.M.E). He rose to prominence in 2010 with the release of the song “Holla at Your Boy” from his debut studio album, Superstar<\/a><\/strong> (2011). “Tease Me\/Bad Guys”, “Don’t Dull”, “Love My Baby”, “Pakurumo<\/a><\/strong>” and “Oluwa Lo Ni” were also released as singles from the Superstar<\/em> album. In February 2014, Wizkid became the first ever Nigerian musician to have over 1 million followers on Twitter. Ayo<\/a><\/em>, his self-titled second studio album, was released in September 2014. It was supported by six singles: “Jaiye Jaiye”, “On Top Your Matter”, “One Question”, “Joy”, “Bombay” and “Show You the Money”. Following the release of his second studio album and expiration of his 5-year recording contract, Wizkid left E.M.E.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Wizkid achieved international recognition following his collaboration with Drake on the global hit, “One Dance”, which reached number one in 15 countries, including the\u00a0United States,\u00a0United Kingdom,\u00a0Canada,\u00a0and\u00a0Australia. In addition to his solo work, Wizkid has collaborated with several other artists and was featured on the hits “Girl” (with\u00a0Bracket), “Fine Lady” (with\u00a0Lynxxx), “Sexy Mama” (with\u00a0Iyanya), “Slow Down” (with\u00a0R2Bees), “The Matter” (with\u00a0Maleek Berry), “Pull Over” (with\u00a0KCee) and “Bad Girl” (with\u00a0Jesse Jagz). Moreover, he became the first Afrobeats artist to appear in the 2018\u00a0Guinness World Records<\/em>\u00a0for his contribution to\u00a0Drake’s hit song “One Dance”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ayodeji Ibrahim Balogun (born 16 July 1990), also known as Wizkid is a Nigerian singer, songwriter and performer. Wizkid started recording music at age 11 and manage to release a collaborative album with the Glorious Five, a group he and a couple of his church friends formed. In the Year 2009, he signed a record deal with Empire Mates Entertainment (E.M.E). […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4353,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[192,6],"tags":[187,92,156],"class_list":["post-4352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-awards","category-profile","tag-afrobeat","tag-nigeria","tag-wizkid"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldbeatradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4352","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldbeatradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldbeatradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldbeatradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldbeatradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4352"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/worldbeatradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4352\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4354,"href":"https:\/\/worldbeatradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4352\/revisions\/4354"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldbeatradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldbeatradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldbeatradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldbeatradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}