Mayorkun Net Worth & Biography

What is Mayorkun net worth?

Mayorkun is no doubt one of the youngest Nigerian music artistes. He was discovered on Twitter by Davido when he posted a cover of one of Davido’s song “The Money” featuring Olamide.

How has his music journey been in the music industry? Let’s discover Mayorkun net worth, his biography, endorsement, awards, and family, houses, and cars. Shall we?

Since this post mainly focuses on Mayorkun, it wouldn’t be complete without his early life and career

Early Life

Adewale Mayowa Emmanuel popularly known as Mayorkun was born on the 24th of March, 1994. He is one of Nigeria’s trending music artists currently.

Although, he’s not on the latest rankings of the top ten richest musicians in Nigeria, he’s got potential for more earnings as he’s just getting started.

Mayorkun’s father, Dr. Adewale is a medical doctor, director, and professional musician. His mother, Mrs. Toyin Adewale is also an entertainer, she is one of the most popular actresses in Nigeria.

Mayorkun had his early education at the Living Spring Montessori and then proceeded to the High-Grade College. After that, he was admitted into the University of Lagos to study Accounting.

Career

Mayorkun began his music career back in school, but he gave his studies more time and concentration. After graduation, he went on to work at a bank before coming into the music industry.

His Father is one of his highest supporters who urged him to quit the banking job and seek after his dream.

In 2012, Mayorkun sought after his father’s advice and released his first single “ butty babe” which gained little popularity.

In 2013, he also released another hit single “Gbo” which received more awareness than the first one. Still at this point, Mayorkun net worth hasn’t started to climb.

Some years later in 2016, he published a 15 seconds YouTube Video in which he redid a cover of a song released by Davido.

This cover caught the attention of Davido and earned him a recording contract with Davido’s record label “ HKN gang label.”

Since then, Mayorkun has been able to gain a dominant position in the music industry with a lot of albums and collaborations with many famous artists such as Olamide, Tuface, JoeBoy, Brymo, Pasuma, King Sunny Ade (KSA) and of course Davido.

His first official single upon his contract with HKN gang label was “Eleko”; and gained him an impressive entrance with well over one million views in ten days on YouTube.

In 2017, Mayorkun released another hit single that gained him more popularity across Nigeria and the African Nation at large. This hit single “Mama” was a success right from its entrance into the market.

Many other music singles have been released since them making him a formidable force in the Entertainment Industry.

Earlier in 2020, Nigerian pop star, Mayorkun released his single, ‘Geng.’ Ever since the song was released, numerous Nigerian artists like YCee, Falz, Lord Vino,  Skiibii, and more have jumped on it.

Mayorkun Net Worth and Highlights

As of 2021, Mayorkun’s net worth is estimated to be roughly $670,000

He bagged quite a number of awards:

• He won the Headies Award for Rookie of the Year 2016
• City People Entertainment Award for the Most Promising Act 2016
• The Headies Award for the Next Rated Act, 2018, among others

Here list of Mayorkun Songs;

• Sope
• Eleko
• Tire
• Fantasy
• Aya mi
• Posh
• Oshepete
• Jonze Me
• Drama Queen
• Mofo
• Red Handed
• Bobo
• Che Che
• Mama
• Love you tire
• Yawa
• Up to something

Mayorkun has worked with many other musicians like Kiss Daniel, Harry Song, Naira Marley, Tiwa Savage, etc.

Nigerian singer, Mayorkun, has bought himself a brand new 2018 Mercedes-Benz CLA-Class, and a house in Lekki estimated to cost between 25 million Naira to 35 million Naira.

In one of the quotes from Mayorkun, he said; “That front wey we dey look, we must reach there! Who first reach no concern me” – Mayorkun

Life Lessons From Mayorkun

Mayorkun is a graduate of Unilag, he majored in accounting. Before Mayorkun got signed to Davido’s HNK record label, he was a marketer in a major bank in Lagos.

Though he was not among top marketers, the junior ones that get paid by commission. Luckily for him, he was interviewed with another bank and got a better offer of 75k.

At that same time, just for fun, he recorded himself performing one Davido and Olamide songs with a keyboard at his cousin’s house. He decided to post the song to Twitter.

When Davido came across the video he posted on twitter. He like it, shared it and followed him. Davido finally sent him a direct message.

Mayorkun was very happy. That was how Mayorkun net worth started rise. The rest is history including the 75k job he was supposed to resume

Davido will forever be an integral part of Mayorkun’s story. The singer’s love for music far outweighs his passion for sitting behind a desk in a bank.

The lesson?

Don’t Forget What Your Passionate About

Don’t let your job affect your dream. There are steps to achieving your dreams, and no doubt, Mayorkun knows what he wants.

A job is what it is, a means to survive, a financial stepping stone to reach more personal goals in life.

Another lesson is to work hard. If you’re an upcoming artiste, never rest, keep working hard, remember that greatness is never achieved in a day.

Networking

Upcoming artistes should learn to network with influential people in the entertainment industry. The industry is a wide place, there are a lot of people to network with.

It’s now easy than ever before to make friends with the big players in the industry. Social media has created more entrepreneur, and more millionaires. Use it!

Mayorkun Net Worth (summary)

As of 2020, Mayorkun’s net worth is estimated to be $670,000.

Just don’t give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is passion, you can achieve anything.