Akon

According to Akon, Wizkid was a local artist before he started making a name for himself

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The Senegalese-American musician Akon has come clean about his involvement with the meteoric rise to fame of Wizkid, a Nigerian Afrobeats sensation. In 2008, he signed the Starboy crooner to his record label and cleaned him up, claiming that he was only a local singer. Akon recently made the assertion on an episode of the … Read more

My role in the development of Afrobeats — Akon

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The American-Senegalese musician Akon has discussed his role in the development of Afrobeats. He asserted that the current genre of music known as Afrobeats was born out of his relationships and collaborations with Nigerian musicians and record executives in the late 2000s and early 2010s. Years before the ‘Afrobeats to the World’ movement gained steam, … Read more