By- Nzeribe Okechukwu
The BET award for Best International act paraded the likes of Teflon Don from UK, Niska from France, CassperNyovest from South Africa, Booba from France and other top artists who could be considered giants in the music industry, but it did not stop Davido the young Nigerian from clinching the award.
David AdedejiAdelekea.kaDavido has taken the Nigerian Music industry by storm. With endorsement deals from the South African Telecom giant MTN and a follow up deal with Guinness, Davido is an artist that is sought after. His first musical recording began in May 2011 gave birth to his first hit song titled Back When which received constant airplay and later on became the album’s lead single.
His second hit single titled DamiDuro was a collaboration with the artist Shizzi. He further went to produce other singles Ekuro, Gbon, Feel Alright, and Overseas amongst others which made up his first album titled Omo Baba Olowo.
In August 2013 Davido released his hit single for his upcoming second album titled Skelewu. With its fun beats and peculiar dance moves Skelewu topped the Nigerian Music Charts for several weeks, peaked as number 1 on Afribiz top 100 Chart and was ranked on the top 10 songs for 2013. To further promote the Skelewu dance, a competition with a cash prize of N480,000 was announced by the artist. An instructional dance video uploaded on Youtube was done by the artist who then asked fans to upload videos of themselves dancing the skelewu dance. The competition was one by Mr Bello MoshoodAbiola.
As part of his efforts to present a unifying voice for Africa the Cable Channel giant DSTV launched its Africa rising campaign. The campaign which sought to inspire Africans to be involved in community based social investment campaigns paraded artists like Davido, Mi Casa, Lola Rae, Sarkodie, Tiwa Savage and Diamond Platnumz to produce a promotional song for the campaign.
Over the years Davido has collaborated with several home based and international artists to produced singles that have shot him to limelight and made him a household name in the music industry. His BET Award for Best International Act is a testament to that fact.
