Monday, August 5, 2013
How Wizkid Lost N12m Star Trek Performance Fee
Star-Boy CEO
Wizkid will not be
performing at this year’s edition of the annual Nigerian
Breweries PLC sponsored musical concert roadshow, Star
Trek; keep reading to discover why the young sensation
was dropped.
Reliable sources have disclosed the main reason Wizkid
wasn’t added to the star studded event list of entertainers
was due to issues surrounding his performance fee.
The source said that WizKid was initially offered a
whopping N3 million per show and was given a total of
four shows which would have seen him walk away with a
fat N12 million, but his managers were said to have turned
down the deal saying the amount was too small for an
artiste of Wizkid caliber.
The organizers were tempted my the electrifying artiste and
upped the amount to a huge N5 million per show but
quickly changed their minds and replaced him with two
other musicians for less the amount offered WizKid.
Sources also claim that when Wizzy realized that
the organizers weren’t going to increase the initial N3
million fee, he ran back to the Iganmu, the headquarters of
the brewery company with mentor Banky W but was turned
down as he realized he had been replaced by two other
artistes
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