First 10 richest musicians in Africa 2017- Forbes list

American big business magazine, Forbes Magazine, has unconfined a compilation of its first 10 African richest musicians.

The list was put at the same time by means of factors such as endorsement, popularity, illustrate rates, sales, awards, YouTube views, manifestation in newspapers, investment, collective media presence, influence and others.

Below are the artistes that were featured in the list :

1. AKON

Akon has over 35 million albums sold worldwide. He has won several awards counting five Grammy prize nominations and has 45 Billboard Hot  100 songs under his belt. He tops the tilt according to Forbes Africa.

2.BLACK COFFEE, SOUTH AFRICA

The multi-award-winning artist’s real name  is Nkosinathi Maphumulo. He was born in South Africa’s house music province, KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) and raised in the Eastern mantle province,

where Nelson Mandela hailed from, before stirring back  to KZN to examine music.

3.HUGH MASEKELA, SOUTH AFRICA 

Hugh was instinctive in Witbank, east of Johannesburg. He has at least 43 albums and performed with Marvin Gaye, giddy Gillespie, The Byrds, Fela Kuti, Paul Simon, Stevie conjecture and Miriam Makeba.

4.DON JAZZY, NIGERIA 

Don Jazzy is ranked fourth richest in Africa and in addition the first in Nigeria. Like many artists, his real name is Michael Collins Ajereh, and he started playing music as a child in church  before migrating to the UK to pursue his career.

5.TINASHE, ZIMBABWE-AMERICAN

Tinashe was a child model by the age of three. The twenty-four-year-old sang before she could talk  and made her first appearance  in 2000 in the film Cora Unashamed.

Her voice additionally starred in the cartoon  The Polar Express alongside Oscar-winning actor, Tom Hanks.


6.JIDENNA, NIGERIAN-AMERICAN

By the age of 10, Jidenna Theodore Mobisson knew he wanted to do music but was scared to tell his father who sought him to be an engineer. He is ranked sixth according to Forbes Africa.


7.WIZKID, NIGERIA

Wizkid is arguably now the uncrowned king of African music. Grammy Award-winning artist, Alicia Keys and companion Swizz Beatz, danced to his songs Ojuelegba and Caro,

with Keys posting a videotape on her Instagram relation with the caption, “This song makes me happy”. Kylie Jenner too posted a clip of herself dancing to Wizkid’s music on Snapchat.


8.DAVIDO,NIGERIA

Davido has claimed a high repute in recently five years. He understood it was people like P-Square and D’Banj who prepared him and made him believe this was possible.

He became prominent for his generally commended 2012 entrance debut album “Omo Baba Olowo”.


9.SARKODIE, GHANA

Michael Owusu Addo started out as an underground rapper and through the help of Duncan Williams, his former manager, his career was launched.

Staying true to his identity, he is a big advocate of Azonto, a Ghanaian genre that is said to have been born out of Kpanlogo, a traditional dance.

His first single off his fourth album, Mewu, sold almost 4,000 copies on the first day of its release in Ghana. He was also the first Ghanaian to win a BET award.


10.OLIVER MTUKUDZI, ZIMBABWE

Oliver Tuku Mtukudzi has 65 albums under his belt, more than the legendary Michael Jackson and Whitney Houston.

It’s a remarkable career stretching back 41 years with songs that have enlivened parties all over the world. He his ranked 10th richest musician in Africa.