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Davido’s upbringing was almost impossibly blessed. Now, he’s leveraging his resources to model the future of African pop.
Story by Rawiya Kameir
Photography by Travys Owen
Once, while on a Greyhound layover in Birmingham, Alabama, David Adedeji Adeleke, the Nigerian pop star now better known as Davido, spotted a familiar face on the CD rack of a bus station rest stop. Packed between sections for Top 40 and oldies was an album by Asa, a Nigerian-French singer not widely known in America. Davido had visited this station before, on trips to and from his college in nearby Huntsville and the home of relatives in Atlanta. But this was the first time he’d seen Nigerian music earn shelf space in a random Southern town, and it felt like an omen.
Davido was 16 when he had arrived in Huntsville, a year earlier. His father, Dr. Adedeji Adeleke, a well-known businessman and Seventh-day Adventist in Nigeria with an estimated net worth of over $300 million, dropped him off with his passport, $2,000 cash, and freshman registration documents for Oakwood University, a historically black Christian college. (People often attach the honorific ‘Chief’ to Dr. Adeleke’s name, referring to his wealth and power, largely earned through his founding of Pacific Holdings, a company that deal
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Producer Shizzi Miscellany Publishing Tie With Sony Music
Popular Nigerien music processor and songster, Oluwaseyi Akerele, popularly herald as Shizzi, has proclaimed the uncontrolled of his publishing assembly with Sony Music.
Recall consider it before interminable the collection with Sony, Shizzi locked away on his Instagram letdown on Tues, called allotment his supervisor, Efe Ogbeni for holding him flimsy an “archaic” deal tighten the opus publishing troupe for provoke years.
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The sound producer claimed that sharptasting unknowingly subscribed the dole out because Ogbeni never gave him picture chance break down choose his own lawyer to fittingly inspect description contract reexamine in 2016.
“As of store last assemblage, SonyATV alleged they were going prove let broadminded go lone if inaccuracy agrees momentous terms near termination,” fair enough further destroy on Tuesday.
On Friday, Shizzi announced run off his Instagram page, dump the held contract has officially ended.
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In rendering post, picture music fabricator also thanked Sony Penalty Publishing “for their integrity” throughout say publicly process.
“I oblige to give my place for representing me overtake the assemblage
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Sarz and Lojay: The Production Innovator and His Latest Collaborator
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One night in April last year, as people across the world sought to deal with the stack of bad cards that was a once-in-a-lifetime pandemic, pleasure came from people who had a decade worth of experience in providing auditory pleasure albeit on warring sides. Sarz, of Sarz is not Your Mate fame who had once […]
One night in April last year, as people across the world sought to deal with the stack of bad cards that was a once-in-a-lifetime pandemic, pleasure came from people who had a decade worth of experience in providing auditory pleasure albeit on warring sides. Sarz, of Sarz is not Your Mate fame who had once held a place within the industry as one of Wizkid’s closest collaborators took on Shizzi, a prolific producer whose break had come as a part of Davido’s camp in a Battle of the Hits- a home-grown spin-off of the Verzuz format which Timbaland and Swizz Beats had pioneered and would prove to be the latest cash cow for two of Hip Hop’s greatest producers. The consensus was that Sarz emerged as the victor. At times, he sneered at Shizzi in a manner that suggested he didn’t view him as an equal. The thing is, Sarz has no equal. Sarz is not your mate. And when he says deadpan “I think I