6. Davido
Davido, is an American-born Nigerian recording artist, performer and record producer. His 2011 single, “Dami Duro”, was well-received throughout Nigeria. Along with his elder brother Adewale Adeleke, Davido is the co-owner of HKN Music.
He has produced for numerous artists, including Naeto C, Skales, Tiwa Savage and Sauce Kid. In 2012, he signed an endorsement deal with MTN Nigeria. In 2013, Davido partnered with Guinness for the “Guinness World of More” concert. Davido has won a BET Award, a Kora Award, a Channel O Music Video Award, a Ghana Music Award, a Nigeria Music Video Award, two MTV Africa Music Awards, two African Muzik Magazine Awards, five The Headies Awards, seven Nigeria Entertainment Awards and two Dynamix All Youth Awards, among others.
SEE ALSO: 10 Nigerian male celebrities who are notorious womanizers (With Pictures)
“Skelewu”, the third single from the upcoming album, was released on August 13, 2013. It was ranked 5th on the aforementioned list of the top 10 songs of 2013. The song peaked at number 1 on Afribiz’s Top 100 chart. A dance competition with a cash prize of $3000 (N480,000) was announced days after the release of the song. Davido uploaded an instructional dance video onto YouTube and asked fans to upload videos of themselves dancing to “Skelewu”. On October 10, 2013, Davido declared Bello Moshood Abiola the winner of the competition.
Davido is also quite known for many charity works as he make visits and donations to many orphanage homes every year, he has also helped quite a number of people get through health problems in many cases financially.
And the popular singer have also just graduated getting a bachelor’s degree in MUSIC this year despite him being an A-LIST public figure whom a lot of people were expecting him to dropout of school.
He was also listed this year among the top ten most famous people in Nigeria 2015.
Davido is hereby concluded to be the 6th most influential artist of 2015.
Discussion about this post