How I gave the name Wizkid to Bigwiz – Singer Banky W explains to all and sundry in new video

Famous Nigerian singer Banky W in a new video making the rounds online has disclosed how he gives the name Wizkid to Grammy Award-Winning singer, BigWiz,

Note that Banky W was the one who signed Wizkid to his record label, EME before the singer left and created his own record label known as StarBoy Entertainment.

In the interview, Banky W described Wizkid as a “studio rat,” explaining that, for a long time, Wizkid couldn’t afford studio time. Banky shared that back then, Wizkid would spend entire days in any studio that allowed him to hang around, hoping the producer would eventually take pity and give him 15 to 30 minutes since he couldn’t pay for his own sessions.

Speaking further, Banky W said the name ‘WIZ’ comes from the fact that he’s the fastest songwriter he’s ever met. He noted that Wiz only needs to listen to the beat, and the next thing your song is ready. because he doesn’t need to write it, he’s a genius.”

In his words; “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.”
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