As a prominent young Nigerian artiste,
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 the 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.”
