Nollywood Exclusive | 17 April 2011 01:32 CET

WIZKID DROPOUT OF SCHOOL IN PURSUIT OF MUSICAL CAREER

Source: AKINNAGBE AKINTOMIDE/Nollywoodgists.com

Ayodeji Ibrahim Balogun a.k.a Wizkid is no doubt one of the fast rising artiste in the Nigerian music industry. He started off his singing career at the early age of 11(Eleven) in church under the name Lil Prinz before rebranding in 2006 from being an inspirational act to secular artiste and ever since then, his being able to carve a niche for himself in the industry.

He broke fully into the industry 2010 after releasing the smatched hit singles holla at ur boy, tease me, and the most recent one don't dull that is currently rocking the airwaves.

Wizkid a 200'level student of leadcity university, studying international relations broke a bombshell in a recent interview that he has opt out of school for now in quest to concentrate on his musical career. On why the 2010 most promising artiste of the year, Dynamix all youth awards decides to opt out of school, he explained that he could not cope with the school activities and the same time doing music, though, he promised to go back to school later in future but that will probably be outside Nigeria.

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