Multi Award-winning Nigerian superstar, Ayodeji Ibrahim Balogun, professionally known as Wizkid, has revealed that his lyrics do not reflect his true feelings as a spiritual being.
Wizkid made it known that many people know him as someone who releases a lot of club records but they obviously don’t know that he sees himself as a pastor.
Speaking with The Guardian, the ‘Bad to me ‘ crooner recounted how he discovered his love of music in church.
Being the youngest of 11 children, raised by a Christian mother and polygamous Muslim father who had three wives, Wizkid revealed that hymns taught him “how to feel”.
He stated, “I’m a very spiritual human being. I know I make a lot of club records but I feel like a pastor, really”.
He also revealed how music helped him while growing up in a house dominated by women and in a society where the only other option was life of crime.
Wizkid said, “Music was more than a hobby for me, more than a talent. 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”.
The Grammy winner added that he grew up in a chaotic but lively environment in Surulere, Lagos state.
Big wiz said his parents desire for him was different to either be a lawyer or doctor, so telling them that he wanted to do music was hard.
He further recounted when he was trying to make his name as a rapper and was taken under the wing of the late producer OJB Jezreel.
Wizkid explained, “My parents wanted me to be a lawyer or a doctor. That was a very hard conversation to have when I said I wanted to make music. I had to just prove [myself] to them.”
