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Banky W Biography and Cool Facts About him

Banky W Biography and Cool Facts About him||As a matter of fact, in this article, I will be sharing with you, cool facts about Banky W, which includes his biography and some other facts of him. So do yourself this favour by staying on this tab, relax as we dive right in.

Talking about Banky W (Wellington) Biography and cool facts about him, this will be a very interesting article to read, because he is one of the pioneers in Afro music in Nigeria, if you can recall in the early 2009, he was one of the top artist in Nigeria, which made him acquire wealth as well as music awards.

Banky W Biography and Cool Facts About him
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Banky W Biography and Cool Facts About him

He is the Godfather to our famous and trendy Wizkid, a.k.a Starboy, he found wizkid, when he was still in the music industry, but now he is no longer into singing he has left that angle, as grace found him, he is now a minister of the Gospel of Christ.

Origin:

If you do not know his real name, then the biography and cool facts about our subject would be incomplete. Olubankole Wellington, popularly known as Banky W is a former Nigerian singer and songwriter, who hails from from o one of the western states of Nigeria, he is a born American-Nigerian.

One thing about some Nigerians, is that some of them had the privilege of being born with a silver spoon in the mouth, that is why you will hear stories like so and so is a, let’s say for instance, Canadian-Nigerian. This as a result of being born into the family of rich parents.

Personal Life:

He is married to Adesua Etomi and they had their traditional and White wedding in Nigeria and South Africa respectively, he is not like most Nigerian Celebrities, who are known for cheating, since little or no issue or such acts has been heard since he got married to his wife.

Political Life:

He was into music for a long time, then at some point he became partisan, which made him to contest for the Lagos State House of Representatives, which made him member of the Modern Democratic Party and the People’s Democratic party.

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Education:

Education they say is the key to a brighter future, if you do listen to Banky W, you don’t need to be informed that the singer is learned, he attended his primary and secondary school in Lagos, State Nigeria, he went further to Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, located in New York, when he relocated with his family.

Music Career:

 Banky W after returning from New York, he came back to Lagos and established a Music Record Label, titled “Empire Mates Entertainment”, this was a record label that housed a good number of up and coming artist as that time, one of them was wizkid, as at that time, the record funded all of Big Wiz songs. Songs like “holla at your boy, Say everybody call ma name” and others, some other artists not excluding himself.

He as well dropped a good number of songs, which were “strong tinz, Jazi, etc.” Banky was a very good artist as then he trended along with his God-son, he songs, had massive airplays on radio and television, within and outside the country.

Artist he collaborated with:

For collaboration, I can recall that most of his songs he made then alone, but few he did with wizkid, who was his signee as at time.

Now wizkid has left the hands of his boss, he now owns his record label, “Star Boy Music”.

Songs:

He has dropped a good number of songs and these songs are mind-blowing.

Jasi

High Notes

All I want is you

Made for you

Cash only

And others

Awards

As a cool artist, he got for himself a good number of awards, during his prime, which were:

Nigerian Music Awards

Urban Independent Music Awards

Hip Hop World Awards

etc.

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