Wizkid Biography, Education, Career, Albums, investments, Endorsements, Awards, Net worth, Handles

Monday, 29 August 2022, 12:28 am

In this article, we will share with you things you don’t know about Wizkid even though there are many unshared details about Wizkid.

Biography

Ayodeji Ibrahim Balogun popularly well known as Wizkid. He has a fanbase known as Wizkid Fc’s. His mother is a Christian, and his father a Muslim. Wizkid who followed his mother to the church began singing in his local church at the tender age of 11 years. He was not only a good vocalist but also a lead singer.

He managed to release a collaborative album with the Glorious Five, a group he and a couple of his church friends formed. In March 2013, Wizkid established his label imprint Starboy Entertainment and since then wizkid has signed a lot of artists like Maleel Berry, Efya, R2Bees, and many others including Terri which was signed in 2018.

In the year 2020, Wizkid dropped his highly anticipated 4th studio album “Made In Lagos”. The project featured stars like Skepta, Burna Boy, Ella Mai, Damian Marley, etc.

Early Life

Conceived in Surulere into the group of Balogun on July 16, 1990, Wizkid’s genuine name is Ayodeji Ibrahim Balogun. This implies Wizkid is already 32 years of age at the time of this post.

He has been singing some time before he shot into the spotlight in 2011 with his single Holla at Your Boy.

From that point, Wizkid has become a power to deal with, both in the Nigerian and International music world.

Speedy Fact: Until 2006, Wizkid passes by the stage name “Lil Prinz.”

Before he began his own name, Star Boy Entertainment in 2013, Wizkid was marked into Empire Mates Entertainment (EME) in 2009 by Banky W, the CEO of the name.

Wizkid is of extraordinary universal notoriety and increased much increasingly worldwide acknowledgment after his coordinated effort with Drake on a tune entitled “One Dance.”

The melody bested the diagram in more than 15 countries including the United States of America (US), United Kingdom (UK), and Canada.

Most likely, Wizkid is probably the best artiste to have come out of Nigeria and the world on the loose. To vouch for his noticeable quality, Wizkid has 6.1M devotees on Twitter and 10.1M adherents on Instagram. What an accomplishment!

Album

Superstar (2011)
Ayo (2014)
Sounds from the Other Side (2017)
Made in Lagos (2020)

Awards

Wizkid has won a few awards approaching a hundred, directly from 2011 when he rose to unmistakable quality till date. In any case, here are only a couple, from 2015 to date:

2015: MOBO Awards – Best African Act
2016: Ghana Music Awards – Artiste of the Year
2017: BET Awards – Best International Act: Africa
2017: MOBO Awards – Best International Act
Likewise in 2017: Future Awards Africa – Young Person of the Year
2017: Echo Awards – Song of the Year for “One Dance”
2017: Billboard – Top R&B Record for “One Dance”
2018: Afrimma – Song of the Year and Video of the Year’ awards for “Soco”
2018: Headies Awards – Viewers Choice, Best Music Video, Best R&B, and POP Album
In 2019, He won Song of The Year at Afrimma Award for his song “Fever”
2020: Wizkid Wins “Best African Act” at MOBO Awards 2020

Wizkid Investment

As expressed before, Wizkid net worth in 2022 is $35 million dollars. That is, Wizkid is worth $35 million dollars in 2022 as per Forbes. That is a ton.

He merits it however, StarBoy has satisfied his obligations.

Here is a portion of his moneymakers:

Wizkid is the CEO of StarBoy Entertainment, his record name, which he began in 2013

In 2012: Wizkid marked a one-year endorsement deal with Pepsi supposedly worth 350,000 U.S dollars

2013: Wizkid marked a one-year deal with MTN Nigeria. His agreement deal with Pepsi was additionally restored for an additional two years.

Additionally in 2013: he marked an endorsement deal with Guinness for the “Guinness World of More” show, which was held at the Eko Convention Center of the Eko Hotel and Suites in Victoria Island, Lagos on 3 November 2013.

2015: Wizkid marked a ₦128 million deal with GLO and dumped MTN.

2018: Wizkid marked a deal with CIROC worth a few thousand dollars.

He likewise accomplices consistently with mainstream brands, for example, D&G, Gucci, and Nike. He even worked together with Nike to create his well-known Star Boy Jersey.

2019: United Bank for Africa (UBA) declared Wizkid as their image envoy.

Wizkid owns a mansion in Lekki, Lagos worth N140 million and another in Atalanta, US.

Wizkid owns a lot of cars including a Porsche Carrera, a Bentley Bentayga, a Toyota Land Cruiser, a Range Rover Sport, and a Chevrolet Camaro GS, among other