Music executive Banky W recently shared insights into how Grammy-winning artist Wizkid rose from humble beginnings to become a major name in the music industry.
In a viral video, Banky W reflected on Wizkid’s early career, recalling the time when he signed Wizkid to his label, Empire Mates Entertainment (EME), well before Wizkid launched his own label, StarBoy Entertainment.
Banky W described Wizkid’s tireless commitment to music, explaining that he was a “studio rat” who, despite struggling financially, would spend countless hours refining his skills in any studio willing to accommodate him.
He also revealed the story behind Wizkid’s stage name, explaining that “Wiz” came from his incredible speed in songwriting, making him one of the quickest writers Banky had ever worked with.
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.”
Watch the video below …
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