Artiste and entrepreneur, Akon, has revisited the role he played in the emergence of Nigerian musical giants like Wizkid, Banky W and the now estranged pair, PSquare.
He said he had been working to develop them since as far back as 2008.
Interestingly, many would credit Banky W for Wizkid’s breakthrough based on the role he played in the coming on stream of Wizkid’s first album, ‘Superstar’.
But in an interview with Sherri, Akon noted: “2008 was my last official album, which was the ‘Freedom’ album. And then I was producing the music for the 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa. From there, I went to Nigeria. What we created in Nigeria was what you see now and hear now as Afrobeats.
“Wizkid was the first [Nigerian] artiste that we signed back in 2008. We went to work with him and Banky W in Nigeria. From there, we just started developing artists like PSquare, Dbanj and others.
