''Fela Is My Favourite Musician

Wizkid Says “Fela Is My Favourite

Musician”

New Music Of Black Origin

(MOBO) Best African Act award

winner, Ayo Balogun, who is

popularly known as Wizkid, has

recently made his mind known

on his winning of the just

concluded 2011 edition of the

awards held in Glasgow, Scotland

on October 5.

Wizkid won the coveted award

in the category where D Banj,

Seun Kuti, Smod, Cheikh Lo,

Liquideep, Owiny Sigoma band,

Fatoumata Diawara, Vieux Farka

Toure and Spoek Mathambo

were also nominated in.

Though Wizkid has recently been

in the news for the negative

reasons when he was alleged to

have impregnated a University

of Legon undergraduate student

named Sola, but this MOBO

awards news will now come as a

nerve soother to his faithful

fans.

Just some weeks ago, he was

involved in an alleged leaked sex

tape that went wild on the

internet like an hamattan fire.

Not long afterwards, it was an

alleged assault on a female fan at

an eatery around Opebi area of

Lagos.

In a reaction to his winning of

the award, the Holla At Your Boy

crooner said, “I am proud of

myself, hard work has paid off, i

am very thankful.” While stating

further, this Banky W’s Empire

Mate Entertainment (EME) record

label signed artiste, when asked

who favourite musician was, he

simply said, “Fela.”

Wizkid has now joined the list of

Nigerians like 2Face Idibia

(2007), 9ice (2008) and Nneka

(2009), who have win the award

in the past. With this latest by

Wizkid, he has now become the

youngest artiste to have won

this award.

For a young chap that is in his

early and rising stage of his

musical career, we hope that

winning this award will change a

lot of things about this fast

Nigeria music icon in the making.

We wish him the best as he now

ride the train of the best African

MOBO act.