The Rise of Afrobeats: #StarBoyMondays

What would people do if artists stopped giving fans their music? In the case of WizKid, it seems that we will never know.

The twenty-four year old superstar was born as Ayodeji Ibrahim Balogun in Lagos, Nigeria. He started out his career at age eleven in a group called the Glorious Five, made up of some of his friends from church. Together they made one successful album called Lil Prinz. They dismembered shortly after. WizKid later got back to music and put out his first solo album in 2011 called Superstar. This year, WizKid got back into the studio and put out his second album entitled Ayo. WizKid is known internationally and he was even dubbed the first Nigerian musician to get over one million followers on twitter. He currently has 1.34 million followers and the number is only growing.
Ever since he dropped his album this year, he has been touring around with a band. Don't think that hasn't stopped him from being in the studio. No it hasn't! After releasing his album, WizKid decided to please fans further by announcing that he is releasing new music every Monday for the month of December via twitter.

Wizkid Ayo Balogun

@wizkidayo

10 days

At band rehearsal! Might just drop that jam right after this! #StarBoyMondays! I got a song coming every Monday thru out December!

His fans went crazy! They started tweeting at him nonstop and using his hashtag #StarBoyMondays. So far WizKid has released two songs, Wonder and Sound It. He even plans on releasing music videos on Mondays as well. The posts on twitter about his music have been nothing but positive. All of his fans can't wait to see what he releases for the rest of the Mondays this month. Here is what he released so far. Enjoy!

-Diana Perpignan