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Davido, Wizkid Emerge Biggest Winners At 2018 Headies
The 2018 edition of the Headies Awards ended recently with Davido, Wizkid and Simi emerging among the biggest winners. However, we all knew that there was no way Davido and Wizkid wouldn’t have been two of the biggest winners. All through last year and this year, they were the ones everyone else was running after.
The major surprise though was Simi, not that she is not good, infact she is exceptionally good, it was just that you wouldn’t have expected her to smash through like she did and we are very happy about it.
Between these three, they won at least 10 awards. Simi won album of the year, Best Recording of the year for ‘Yoromi’ and Best RnB single earning her a total of three awards, Wizkid the ultimate as he is now dubbed, won the viewers Choice award, for ‘come closer’, Best music video also for ‘Come Closer’ Best RnB and Pop album of the year, he also won in the collabo department, Best Collabo award, Tiwa Savage FT Wizkid.
‘Malo’ bringing his total awards to four.
Davido, who topped the winners list carted home big awards like Artiste of the year, Song of the year, Best pop single for that smash hit ‘if’. He also won by extension as his artiste carted home the next rated award which came with a car.
Full List Of Winners
Best Rap Album – Reminisce
Hip Revelation – Reekado Banks
Best Reggae/Dance hall – “Holy Holy”, 2 Baba
Best alternative Song – Aramide “Funimi Lowo ni”
Rap Single – “You Rappers should fix up your Lives”, – Mi Mbaga
Producer of the Year – kiddominant
Best Vocal Performance (Female) Omawunmi – “Butterflies”
Rookie of the Year – Temilola Apata
African Artiste of the year’, Nasty C.
Best Street Hop Artiste: “Penalty’: Small Doctor.
R&B star, Temilade Openiyi, popularly known as Tems, has recounted the early-career challenges she faced, revealing that she was once booed out of the stage while performing at a school event.
Speaking in an interview with Newsmen, the Crazy Tings crooner shared that she wasn’t only booed but was also harassed with plastic bottles.
“I remember one time I was going to perform at my school as an up-and-coming singer and I thought I was going to receiving a standing ovation.
“But I got booed. They even threw plastic bottles at me,” she recalled.
Tems explained that despite the embarrassing incident and other such rejections, she remained determined to pursue a career in music.
The Tide Entertainment reports that Tems admitted that some of the initial rejections she faced could be due to her conviction to stick to her originality instead of doing covers or familiar sounds like most of her peers.
The Grammy-winning singer said looking back now, she is glad that she didn’t compromise her style despite the initial pressures.
A close associate of late singer Mohbad, Primeboy, has appealed for the artiste’s burial nearly three years after his death.
According to him, Mohbad’s body remains in the mortuary since September 12, 2023, pending burial arrangements.
The Tide Entertainment reports that in a statement Primeboy urged the family, public, and government to permit the burial, stating, “It’s been almost three years since Mohbad left us. His body is still in the mortuary. I’m begging the family, I’m begging the public, I’m begging the government, please let’s bury our brother. He deserves a befitting burial.”
It would be recalled that Mohbad’s death sparked public outrage, protests, and investigations. Ongoing autopsy examinations, police inquiries, and legal proceedings have delayed burial arrangements amid family disagreements and public scrutiny.