Wizkid releases new album “Morayo” in tribute to late mom — Each day Nigerian
Grammy-winning Nigerian artist, Ayodeji Balogun, famously identified by his stage identify
Wizkid, has launched his sixth studio album, “Morayo” in tribute to his late mom, Jane Balogun, who handed on in August 2023.
The News Agency of Nigeria experiences that the much-anticipated 16-track album was launch on streaming platforms on Friday.
The tracks embody hit songs — Troubled Mind, Karamo, Kese (Dance), Bad Girl, Time, Piece of My Heart and Pray, with collaborations that includes famend artistes akin to Asake, Brent Faiyaz, Jazmine Sullivan, Anaïs and Tiakola.
Wizkid had earlier in June, in a video message shared on his social media web page, informed his followers that the album was to honour his late mom.
He stated “my album ‘Morayo’, dedicated to my mum, the love of my life, drops very soon. Don’t dull. Don’t sleep.”
In one other submit on his X deal with, he wrote: “Morayo! Friday, Nov. 22.”
However, the ace singer in October dropped a monitor “Piece of My Heart”, that includes American singer and songwriter,Brent Faiyaz, from the album for his curious followers.
The soul-stirring monitor instantly set a brand new file on Spotify for the largest first day streams by any music, pulling 1.01 million streams.
Wizkid broke the file he beforehand shared with Asake for his or her chart-topping single “MMS” from Asake’s “Lungu Boy” album, making
“Piece of My Heart” Africa’s first music to surpass a million opening day streams on Spotify.
NAN experiences that Wizkid, born in Surulere, Lagos, began his music profession at 11 and launched a collaborative album with Glorious Five, a gaggle fashioned with Church buddies.
In 2009, he signed with Banky W’s Empire Mates Entertainment and have become well-known with “Holla at Your Boy”, and since then, advanced to turn into a worldwide model.
Among different feats, Wizkid grew to become the primary Nigerian musician to have over a million followers on Twitter (now X) in 2014.
He grew to become first Afrobeat artist to look within the 2018 Guinness World Records for his contribution to “One Dance” and his music “Soco” grew to become his first
Afrobeat single to be licensed gold in Canada.
In mid-2019, Wizkid was featured on Beyonce’s “Brown Skin Girl”, taken from the acclaimed “The Lion King: The Gift” soundtrack, which earned
him his first Grammy Award, amongst different nominations and awards.
Besides “Morayo”, his studio albums embody Superstar (2011), Ayo(2014),Sounds from the Other Side(2017),Made in Lagos(2020) and More Love Less Hate(2022)
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