Wizkid

The explosion of Afrobeats has been one of the biggest stories in the music industry over the past five years, with acts like Burna Boy, Davido, Asake, and Tems becoming global superstars. As Africa’s musical imprint around the world continues to become more prominent, its artists now have a Grammy category all to themselves: Best African Music Performance.   “It makes sense, given that reggae or spoken word have their own categories,” says Gracey Mae, a U.K.-based PR and marketing consultant and Recording Academy…

Back in November last year, Wizkid served up a much-needed winter warmer with his fifth studio album, More Love, Less Ego.The album’s release was toasted with two of the Nigerian star’s biggest live performances: one at Apple Music Live, and another in New York’s Madison Square Garden. Now, as he looks forward to a summer packed with festival bookings, Wizkid returns with visuals for the album’s opening track, “Money & Love”.As we’ve made pretty clear in that preamble, there’s been plenty for Wiz to celebrate recently…

Trinidad Carnival, aptly dubbed The Greatest Show on Earth, is back for the first time since January 2020, just before COVID-19 was declared a global pandemic. Revelers from across the globe have been making their way to the nation’s capital, Port of Spain, for a long-awaited ancestral celebration that, up until two years ago, had persisted to display the culture and emancipation history of the Caribbean’s twin islands and follows the return of similar celebrations in Antigua, and Jamaica. In 2021, Carnival was canceled…

When I meet Wizkid at Metropolis recording studios in London, I am suddenly an awed 18-year-old again. The Afropop juggernaut soundtracked my university years, yet I’m struck by how youthful he appears, apparently having barely aged since I screamed myself hoarse watching him perform at London’s Hammersmith Apollo a decade ago.The only difference is that now, the 32-year-old Nigerian musician’s wrists are weighed down by Van Cleef bracelets and a diamond-encrusted watch. And his music is no longer the preserve of a…

Rising Afrobeats star BNXN (fka Buju) has just released his new EP, Bad Since ‘97, featuring some of the biggest names in the genre, including Wizkid, Olamide, and more. The singer-songwriter built a name for himself primarily off of features, with his inimitable vocals and consistently catchy hooks earning him the title of “king of melodies and hooks” by fans. 2021 saw the artist, born Daniel Benson, feature on two major Afrobeats singles that year: “Mood” with Wizkid, and “Feeling” with Ladipoe. BXBN showed that he…

Ahead of the release of his forthcoming 10th studio album Breezy, Chris Brown enlists Wizkid for his new single “Call Me Every Day.”Co-produced by DJ Tunez, Blaise Beatz and Leon Youngblood, the Afrobeats-infused track is the third official offering from Breezy this year, following the previously released singles “WE (Warm Embrace),” which hit DSPs in April, and “Iffy,” which Brown dropped back in January.“Girl, I love you, plus I’ll never make you minus/If I let you smoke, is you gon’ lose my lighter?/If you paranoid,…