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Ayo ‘Wizkid’ Balogun, the Nigerian singer-songwriter whose ‘Come Closer’ video was viewed over a million times in 24 hours, in a recent chat with Jasmine Dotiwala of British television station, said his father didn’t support his music career during his early days.
Wizkid who was once a student of Lagos State University before getting a transfer to Lead City University said: ”My Dad used to fight me every time. ‘Don’t go to the studio, stay at home and study’. I just had my dreams and I followed them here. But now, people take pictures with him on the streets. “He’s just so proud, and that’s my joy to make them happy” he reveals.
He also opines that Afrobeat and Afropop would take over the world music stage very soon.
In his words:”Music is a universal language, you don’t need to understand what someone is saying to feel the music or love the music. For me, I feel like it’s just gonna bring this industry (Afrobeats) mainstream. It’s going to do a lot, it’s going to contribute, and probably take over the world. Everyone has a little bit of Afropop sound-inspired. Look at Drake on his last album (“Views”), look at Alicia Keys with what she is doing right now with the sound on ‘In common’. Everything is coming back home.”