Reekado Banks has worked with the cream
of the Nigerian music industry including
Don Jazzy, Illbliss, Tiwa Savage, Olamide,
Korede Bello, Di’Ja and Wale. The story of
his rise to prominence however, has not
been smooth, as the Mavin Records
recording artiste disclosed during a
#MySuperStarStory interview.
Born Solomon Ayoleyi Hanniel, the Ondo
State indigene revealed that after informing
his parents of his intention to pursue a
career in music and getting their blessing,
he had to hawk blenders in traffic and
work as a manual labourer at a
construction site in a bid to earn some
money to use to record.
He also revealed that at one point, a
lecturer at university told him that he will
never make it after preventing him from
retaking a test he missed.
His turning point came with the Mavin
Records audition where he was picked out
of over 5,000 hopefuls. The dreadlocked
act, now popular for his ballad “Katapot”
credited this triumph to God. In his words,
“There is no amount of sacrifice that was
enough to get me something this big.
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