Happy Birthday Reekado Banks, Here Are 22 Things You Probably Don’t Know About Him

Today marks the 22nd Birthday of Mavin’s 2.0 Artiste Reekado Banks. Reekado Banks also fondly called Reeky TomTom has been making raves in the Nigerian Music Industry with his smashing hits like Chop Am, Sugar Baby, Katapot and also his major contribution to Mavin’s 2015 hit single “Dorobucci”. He has being featured on various tracks and we can tell he is here to STAY!!!

Here are 22 Facts you probably don’t know about him as he celebrates his 22nd Birthday….

1. His real name is Ayoleyi Hananiel Solomon.
2. He was born on December 6, 1993 in Lagos. He is the last born in a family of six kids.
3. His father is a pastor while his mum is a caterer who also devouts time to the church.
4. He grew up in Ikorodu, an outskirt of Lagos.
5. He completed Secondary school in 2008 at the age of 14.
6. His elder sister is a gospel singer.
7. He also has an elder brother, Temi who a producer. The brother introduced him to music and is instrumental to Reekado’s later signing unto Don Jazzy’s Mavin Records.
8. Before joining Mavin, Reekado was known as Spicy.
9. He initially started out by writing rap songs before Temi encouraged him to focus more on singing which was his strong side.
10. His stage name Reekado Banks was inspired by the Spanish name ‘Ricardo’ which means ‘Ruler of Kings’ while the ‘Banks’ according to the singer ‘literally means that I’m rich in musical content’.
11. Without Reekado’s knowledge, his elder brother entered him for the Mavin talent search competition which had over 5,000 entries. The singer later got picked after scaling through auditions.
12. He was unveiled as a Mavin act in February 2014 alongside Korede Bello and Di’ja. They are also referred to as the Mavin 2.0.
13. He dropped his first official single as a Mavin act in February, 2014. It is titled ‘Turn it up’.
14. He was named the Headies ‘Rookie of the Year’ in 2014.
15. Also in 2014, Reekado graduated from the University of Lagos at the age of 21.
16. He graduated with a degree in History and Strategic Studies.
17. He has so far dropped 6 songs under Mavin Records. These are (Turn it up, Chop am, Katapot, Corner, Sugar Baby and Tomorrow).
18. He has also worked on other Mavin collaborative tracks like ‘Dorobucci’, ‘Adaobi’, ‘Looku Looku’ and’Arise’.
19. Reekado is also a very good song writer. He contributed to the writing of Tiwa Savage’s ‘My Darling’ as well as Pasuma’s ‘Ife’ which also features Tiwa Savage.
20. The singer however isn’t planning to abandon music for song writing ‘because the shows obviously brings more money than writing songs.’
21. Earlier this year, Reekado and Tiwa made a cover of Rihanna’s ‘BBHMM’ which was well accepted by fans and critics.
22. Reekado Banks’ fans are called ‘Reekaddicts’