Music executive Banky W discusses how Grammy-winning singer Wizkid began his career from the beginning and developed it into one of the most successful brands in history.
Banky W recalled his early days with the artist, whom he signed to his label, Empire Mates Entertainment (EME), long before Wizkid founded his label, StarBoy Entertainment, in a video that has gone viral online.
Wizkid’s unwavering commitment to music was recalled by Banky W, who called him a “studio rat” who struggled financially and made up for it by spending hours perfecting his craft in any studio that would let him.
The musician-turned-politician shared the story behind the stage name, saying that the singer’s name, “Wiz,” was created because he was the fastest songwriter he had ever met.
Banky W recounts how Wizkid started as a studio rat
“Wizkid for a long time in his life was not fortunate enough to afford or pay for studio time and so he was a studio rat as he will go to any studio where they will let him hang out and he would hang out all day and just wait, hope and pray for the end of the day for the engineers and producers to just take pity on him and say oya, come, come and record for 15 mins or 30 mins because he could not pay for his session.
“So, all day long, he would be working on hooks and melodies and just coming up with things in case he was given the opportunity to jump on the mic for five minutes. He did not have time to think about what to write at the moment, so that became his process.
“And now he is one of the fastest songwriters that I have ever encountered in my life, he will just sit, listen, and listen to music, he would start freestyling a melody that would become a song that the whole world would want to sing and that is where the name Wiz started from, his genius-level creation of melodies is at the spur of the moment.”
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