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ALBUMTwe Twe - SingleKizz Daniel & Davido
Albums by Davido
ALBUMTimelessDavido
ALBUMA Better TimeDavido
ALBUMA Good TimeDavido
ALBUMOmo Baba Olowo: The GenesisDavido
Davido's Popular Music Videos
Sensational (feat. Davido & Lojay)
Chris Brown
2AM (feat. Tory Lanez & Davido)
Casanova
Fans Mi (feat. Meek Mill)
Davido
Blow My Mind
Davido & Chris Brown
Risky (feat. Popcaan)
Davido
Shopping Spree (feat. Chris Brown & Young Thug)
Davido
D & G (feat. Summer Walker)
Davido
Woju (feat. DaVido & Tiwa Savage) [Remix]
Kizz Daniel
So Crazy (feat. Lil Baby)
Davido
Fall
Davido
Artist Playlists
Davido Essentials
The kinetic, frenetic sound of a rising Nigerian star.
Davido Video Essentials
Visual versions of the Nigerian legend’s biggest hits.
Davido: Africa Month
The Afrobeats A-lister gathers his favorite new artists.
Davido: Chill
Unwind with these laid-back cuts.
Davido: Love Songs
The star’s most amorous Afrobeats hits.
Davido: Deep Cuts
Dive into the Nigerian star’s lesser-known gems.
Davido: Flipped
Dive into the samples that inspired the Nigerian superstar.
Davido: The Zane Lowe Interview
Nigerian superstar Davido joins Zane Lowe to reflect on his 2023 and his LP Timeless.
Artist Biography
The distance between West Africa, the Caribbean, and the U.S. has grown vanishingly small in the 21st century, and few singers exemplify that more than Nigerian Afrobeats star Davido. Born David Adedeji Adeleke in Atlanta in 1992, Davido grew up bouncing between his dual hometowns of Atlanta and Lagos, Nigeria. He was a huge fan of hip-hop and R&B and tried his hand at rapping in a group with his cousins called KB International. But after a trip to Lagos during college, he fell in love with the city’s burgeoning music scene and moved there to dive into Afrobeats, the West African pop music that mingles hip-hop, R&B, highlife, dance music, and dancehall. By 2011, he was making a name for himself with effortlessly danceable singles like “Dami Duro.” He’s got a knack for finding irresistible hooks and deploying his gruff-guy-next-door vocals to achieve a sound that’s both sweet and intimate. And he works hard: A prolific collaborator, he’s guested on countless Nigerian singles and has joined forces with artists from across the continent, including Ghanaian rapper Sarkodie, Tanzania’s Diamond Platnumz, and South Africa’s Mafikizolo (on the deliciously genre-crossing “Tchelete”). His friendships extend across the pond as well: American rapper Gunna and Jamaican dancehall artist Popcaan appeared on Davido’s 2019 LP A Good Time, and he has guested on tracks by Meek Mill, J. Cole, Quavo, and others. Through it all, he keeps that unforced good time rolling while singing the praises of the African continent to an increasingly global fanbase.
Hometown
Atlanta, GA, United States
Genre
Afrobeats