Tag: Wizkid
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Davido to feature Don Jazzy, Wizkid on new album
Still basking from winning the Mtv Base Africa Music Award’s title for Best Male on Saturday in South Africa, Nigerian hip hop sensation, David Adeleke, aka Davido, yesterday revealed he is going to have collaborations with ace music producer and musician Don Jazzy and WizKid on his upcoming album.
Davido, who had earlier announced on Twitter that he will jet off to New York today ‘to get this classic album mixed and mastered.’ He let the cat out of the bag when he responded to a fan that asked if he and Don Jazzy do a song together.
Tweeting back, he replied, ‘Done, it’s on the album.’
Shortly afterwards, another fan, sending a tweet to Davido’s official Twitter handle, @iam_Davido asked, ‘is it true about u featuring Wizkid…?’
Davido responded, ‘It’s a yes on myside!!’
Don Jazzy, whose real name is Michael Collins heads Mavins Records, produced the hit song, ‘Dorobucci’ which won the Song of the Year at MAMA.
WizKid was nominated for ‘Best Male’ and ‘Song of the Year’ at the MAMA. He did not win in either category.
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WIZKID next Afrobeat King?
AYODEJI Ibrahim Balogun, better known by the stage name, Wizkid, recently dropped the video of his latest single, Expensive Shit, hshot in South Africa by Sesan Ogunro.
The single which was released last week is a follow up of his old song, Jaiye Jaiye, featuring Femi Kuti with the same infusion of acoustic percussion, saxophone and guitars.
The new work of the young act titled Expensive Shit has the same name as the twelfth full-length album by Afrobeat pioneer, Fela Ransome Kuti and his Africa ’70 band in 1975.
It seems that the bond between the Starboy act and Afrobeat originator is shimmering to the extent that Wizkid showed love and respect for the Afrobeat legend by tattooing Fela on one of his arms and a lion on the other. This move is now generating a lot of buzz on Instagram. However, the young artiste has not been getting good responses from fans who seem to believe he went to the extreme. But some believe he is simply expressing his love for the late Afro beat legend, who he claims is his mentor.
Wizkid will be in Amsterdam on May 30 for the African Dance Contest, performing alongside R2bees, Mystery Act, Biggi, Gary Black, Dr Ray and others.
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BET AWARD: Wizkid, Yemi Alade get nomination
Nigerian music sensations, Ayo Balogun, aka Wizkid and Yemi Alade will be rocking the international stage alongside Beyoncé, Chris Brown, Nicki Minaj and Lil Wyane, as nominees of this year’s BET Award.Wizkid and Alade who have been nominated in the Best International Act Africa category, will be contending with Ghana’s Sarkodie and Stoneboy, South Africa’s AKA, DRC’s Fally Ipupa and Kenya’s Sauti Sol.
BET Networks recognises artistes, entertainers, and athletes across 20 categories with the BET Awards 2015 nominations. The nominations are selected by BET’s Voting Academy, which is comprised of fans and entertainment professionals in the fields of television, film, music, social media, digital marketing, sports journalism, public relations, and the creative arts.
“This year’s nominees showcase a diverse group of talent that includes longstanding entertainers, breakout performers, and outstanding athletes,” said Stephen Hill, BET’s President of Programming. “We congratulate all of the talent on their remarkable contributions to the world of entertainment and look forward to them joining us in celebrating 15 years of the BET Awards.”
Alex Okosi, Senior Vice President & Managing Director, VIMN Africa added, “We are thrilled that African artistes and achievers have been given this global platform once again to highlight and celebrate their huge contribution to the totality of global Black culture through our BET Awards franchise.”
The BET Awards 2015 premieres simultaneously on BET and BET2 (DStv channel 135) at 8:10PM on Tuesday June 30.
In addition, Tanzanian supermodel Millen Magese has been awarded the inaugural ‘Global Good Award’ in recognition of her philanthropic efforts in Africa.
The BET Awards 2015 premieres simultaneously on BET (DStv channel 129) and BET2 (DStv channel 135 and GOtv channel 23) at 20:10 CAT on Tuesday 30 June.
Chris Brown and Nicki Minaj lead the BET Awards with an impressive six nominations. Chris Brown is nominated for ‘Best Male R&B/Pop Artist,’ two separate nods in the ‘Best Collaboration’ category, two nominations in the ‘Video of the Year’ category and the ‘Viewers’ Choice Award.’ Nicki Minaj is nominated ‘Best Collaboration’, ‘Best Female Hip Hop Artist’, ‘Video of the Year’, two nominations for ‘Viewers’ Choice Award’ and ‘Best Group’ as a member of Young Money. Beyoncé and Lil Wayne round it out with four nominations each. Beyoncé is nominated for ‘Best Female R&B / Pop Artist’, ‘Video of the Year’, ‘Video Director of the Year’, and the coveted ‘Viewers’ Choice Award’. Lil Wayne is nominated for ‘Best Collaboration’, ‘Video of the Year’, ‘Viewers’ Choice Award’, and ‘Best Group’ as a member of Young Money. This year also marks a special milestone for the BET Awards as it celebrates its 15th anniversary at the Nokia Theatre on Sunday 28 June.
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Wizkid, Kcee, Emma Nyra perform at Industry Nite Houston
Starboy boss, Ayodeji Balogun, aka Wizkid was the star of the show in Houston, Texas, United States recently where Nigeria’s popular weekly show, Industry Nite, made another stop last weekend.
The Houston leg of the concert followed a number of successful shows in Dubai, the United Arab Emirate.
The event which held on May 6, at the Ayva Centre in Richmond, was a double delight for music lovers and tourists alike as it coincided with the popular yearly Oil and Gas expo tagged, OTC.
The night witnessed over a thousand guests who converged at the Ayva Centre to experience the fun Industry Nite brings to all of its concerts. And true to their expectations, Wizkid delivered a stellar performance to the capacity audience in attendance. Backed by a 10-man live band, wizkid performed hit tracks such as Jaiye Jaiye, On top your Matter, Show me the Money and Ojuelegba among other hits.
“Tonight was amazing; the love I got from my fans was unbelievable. I felt the energy right from the moment I graced the stage. I thoroughly had a great time,” said Wizkid after the performance.
There was also a surprise performance by the Limpopo master, Kcee, who did songs like Turn by Turn, Ogaranya, and Limpopo, and was later joined on stage by Emma Nyra.
According to Matthew Ohio, Founder of Industry Nite, “The goal has always been to promote Nigerian music beyond our shores. So this year, we partnered a number of organizations to see that we achieve this. We have successfully hosted a number of artists on our tours thereby creating a cultural exchange that has helped African music get mainstream attention. And we intend to host more artists, and visit other continents as the months roll by,” he said.
Industry Nite Houston was put together by El Carnaval, Viva Africa and Kiza Dubai.
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Chris Brown and Wizkid perform in South Africa
Wizkid has been spotted performing with Chris Brown in South Africa.
Wizkid joined Chris Brown on stage to perform AfricanBadGirl which they had recorded together in Durban, South Africa during the Chris Brown world tour tagged XTour.
Wizkid and his crew, SeunFamodu, SesanOgunro and DJMaphorisa, arrived in Durban after shooting a music video in Johannesburg earlier on Saturday, April 4, 2015.
Chris Brown as seen in videos from the concert is seen having a great time performing while the crowd went wild.
This is not the first time the stars are performing together. They both performed in Ghana in 2013.
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Kiss Daniel, Wizkid battle for lead on MTV Base Top 10
For four consecutive weeks, Woju, the popular hit by Kiss Daniel, has maintained the number one spot on MTV Base Official Naija Top 10, edging out Wizkid’s Ojuelegba, its closest contender.
The song did not just shoot up from Day 1, as it entered the countdown five weeks ago at number four, but immediately climbed to number one the following week, and retaining same ahead of Ojuelegba, Wizkid’s street anthem.
Davido’s The Sound also maintained number three, where it was last week.
This week’s edition of the weekly countdown show was co-hosted by Beat FM’s on-air-personality, Osi Suave, who treated viewers and regular host VJ Ehiz to a humorous freestyle to Lil Kesh’s streetbanger, Shoki.
Orezi’s Shuperu moves up two spots to number four this week and Banky W’s directorial debut Unborn Child drops one spot to number five. DJ Jimmy Jatt’s Glasses Up is up two positions to number eight and Runtown’s The Latest drops three spots to number 10.
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Wizkid, another victim of hackers
Wizkid aka Starboy has made an announcement on twitter stating that his account has been hacked.
“The email wizkidayo@gmail.com just got hacked. Please ignore anything from that email-Management” he tweeted
We would recall that another victim of hacking was singer Yemi Alade
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Wiz Kid meets Gambian President
Wiz kid Balogun shared a photo of himself and the President of Gambia Yayha Jammeh.
The popular singer arrived Gambia a few days ago and gave a jaw dropping performance which caught the attention of the Gambian President who wanted him to perform again.
“With the President of The Gambia!! He loved the performance he wanted me to perform twice to the people!!! They loved it!! Love! ” he captioned the photo.
Another Nigerian celebrity who has met President Yayha Jammeh is Nollwood ‘bad boy’ actor Jim Iyke.
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Skales, Wizkid at loggerheads
Former label mates, Skales and Wizkid are currently at each other’s throats on Twitter. The ex EME stars were engaged in a social media row which started when Skales claimed that he wrote songs for Wizkid. The Star Boy act, on the other hand, says his success fuelled Skales’ career in EME.
In a series of tweets, Skales claimed that though he wrote songs for Wizkid, the Star Boy does not support him. “@wizkidayo no bad blood bro we family but show support to ur own for real it’s not by tweeting or bare words,” he tweeted.
“@wizkidayo I don’t nid p.r from u bro das d least ting let’s call a spade a spade..u ’re a fake ass nigga…dat is scared of ppls success,” he further tweeted.
It was a back and forth between both stars. Wizkid immediately replied Skales. The Star Boy act said Skales is merely looking for publicity for his new album Man of the Year.
“I know u’re going thru a lot but don’t point fingers at me bro. I made the label money to push all of us! Don’t forget,” Wizkid replied.
Skales took the beef a notch higher when he accused his former label mate of stealing the beat for his hit song, Azonto; “…u stole ma beat and made Azonto…ur super star song…I wrote that song. Don’t let me go on.”
Not taking any of that, Wizkid promptly responded; “My guy @youngskales. I know u’re looking for publicity for ur new album. So I won’t say anything more!… did @youngskales just say he wrote super star!!! I still dey hear sha. Someone that can’t write himself a hit song. U hate your brother because he’s got it more than u. Wow! Na God dey bless everybody my brother!”
Wizkid and Skales were signed to EME in 2010. While Wizkid’s career soared, Skales’ career stalled. Both acts left EME in 2014 under different circumstances.
