Award-winning Nigerian singer, Ayodeji Ibrahim Balogun popularly known as Wizkid has revealed why he doesn’t joke with music.
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The singer during an interview disclosed that music was not just his hubby, but also his escape from crime.
He explained that he began music from the church, his granddad’s Pentecostal church where ‘he and his cousins were choir boys’.
The father of four disclosed that he grew up in a chaotic but fun house dominated by women as the youngest of 11 children and his mother’s only son.
According to Wizkid, he grew up in Surulere, a middle class area with crime tendencies.
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He noted that if he had not gone into music he would have turned to crime.
As such, Wizzy reinforced that music went beyond being just a hubby for him but an escape plan to avoid the life of crime which is why he doesn’t ‘joke’ with it.
“Music was more than a hobby for me, more than a talent,” he says. “It was my escape. I was in the hood. It was either [music] or turn to crime. That’s why I don’t joke with music,” he said.
