10 Things You Should Know About Banker Turned Singer, Mayorkun –

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Friday, 7 April 2017

Adewale Mayowa Emmanuel better
known by his stage name
Mayorkun, is a Nigerian singer and
songwriter, signed to HKN Gang
record label. We presents you 10
things about the fast rising singer
See below:
1 Mayorkun who was born on March
24th hails from Osun state.
2 He did his creche, primary and
secondary school at Living- Spring
Montessori and Hi Grade College after
which he later Studied accounting at
the university of Lagos.
3 His father is a professional
musician, Actor and Director, while his
mum is the popular Nigerian actress
Toyin Adewale.
4 Mayorkun dropped his banking job
to pursue a career in Music.
5 The “Eleko” singer started music
officially way back in year 2013 after
releasing his first track along with his
friends, titled GBO.
6 Davido stumbled upon a 14
seconds YouTube video on February
1st where Mayokun re-sang Davido’s
song which impressed Davido as he
invited the singer for a meeting.
7 On March 3rd 2016, Mayorkun
signed a record deal with Davido’s
imprint HKN Gang.
8 He rose to prominence in 2016 with
the release of the song “Eleko” which
hit over 1 Million views on YouTube 9
days after it was published and also
topped the iTunes chart as number
1 .
9 On August 2, 2016, Mayorkun went
on his first International tour with his
label mate Dremo to the United
Kingdom.
10 He won the 2016 Nigerian Teen
Choice Award for Choice New Song of
the Year, the City People
Entertainment Award for Most
Promising Act of the Year and The
Headies ‘Rookie of the Year’ award.

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