# Wizkid

> He turned Afrobeats into a global chart language. "One Dance" with Drake made him the first Afrobeats artist in the Guinness World Records, "Essence" became the first Nigerian song on the Billboard Hot 100, and his 2024 album Morayo broke Spotify's African streaming debut record.

*Nigerian singer and songwriter (born 1990)*

**Canonical URL:** https://fame.am/person/wizkid

## Identity
- **Profile type:** Singer / Musician ([Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220))
- **Category:** Musicians
- **Country:** Nigeria
- **Born:** 1990-07-16
- **Status:** living
- **Gender:** male

## Bio

Ayodeji Ibrahim Balogun grew up in Ojuelegba, a suburb of Surulere, Lagos, recording music at 11 with a church group called the Glorious Five. He signed with Banky W's Empire Mates Entertainment in 2009 and broke through with "Holla at Your Boy" from his 2011 debut Superstar. After his self-titled 2014 album Ayo and leaving E.M.E., the 2016 Drake feature "One Dance" hit number one in fifteen countries and rewrote what Afrobeats could reach. A 2017 RCA deal followed, then a Grammy in 2019 for "Brown Skin Girl" with Beyoncé. His 2020 album Made in Lagos carried "Essence", which cracked the Hot 100 and climbed higher with a Justin Bieber remix. More Love, Less Ego arrived in 2022, and two years later Morayo - named for his late mother - set a new continent-wide streaming mark the day it dropped.

## Fame
- **Popularity score:** 73.2 / 100
- **Momentum:** 0.0 / 100  (trend: STABLE)
- **Historical depth:** 23.6 / 100
- **Attention shift:** 0.0 / 100
- **Source confidence:** 90.0 / 100
- **Profile completeness:** 90.0 / 100
- **Country rank:** #10
- **Total followers across platforms:** 525,000

## Platforms
- **X**: https://x.com/wizkidayo (@wizkidayo)
- **WEBSITE**: https://www.wizkidofficial.com/
- **INSTAGRAM**: https://www.instagram.com/wizkidayo/ (@wizkidayo)
- **FACEBOOK**: https://www.facebook.com/wizkidmusic (@wizkidmusic)
- **SPOTIFY**: https://open.spotify.com/artist/3tVQdUvClmAT7URs9V3rsp (@3tVQdUvClmAT7URs9V3rsp)
- **YOUTUBE**: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCE0-Bxu88d4bsGCv34zvtbA (@@wizkidvevo, 525,000 followers)

## Timeline
- **2021** - MTV Europe Music Award for Best African Act
- **2017** - Echo Pop Award for the Hit of the Year
- **2016** - MTV Europe Music Award for Best Worldwide Act
- **1990** - Born

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