Joeboy Net Worth, Biography, Age, House, Cars, and Awards January 2024
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Joseph Akinwale (born 21 May 1997), known professionally as Joeboy, is a Nigerian singer and songwriter. Mr. Eazi of the record label emPawa Africa discovered him in 2017. His musical genres are Afro-pop and R&B. He was born in Lagos State, Nigeria. He is also called Young Legend.
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Early life and career
The Mr. Eazi-assisted track “Fààjí” was released on 26 October 2018; Joeboy used his portion of the grant he received from emPawa100 to shoot a video for the song. Joeboy’s single “Baby” was released on 1 March 2019, which garnered 20 million streams across YouTube and Spotify in 2019.
The visualizer music video for “Baby” surpassed 31 million views on YouTube. Joeboy released the Killertunes-produced track “Beginning” on 15 August 2019, where its accompanying visualizer music video accumulated 23 million views on YouTube.
In the video, he finds himself developing feelings for a friend whose advances he had initially dismissed. Following this, he released his debut extended play Love & Light in November 2019 by emPawa Africa.
It was supported by the singles “Baby” and “Beginning“. The EP also contains the Mayorkun-assisted tracks “Don’t Call Me” and “All for You“.
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Joeboy won Best Artiste in African Pop at the 2019 All Africa Music Awards and Best Pop at the 2020 Soundcity MVP Awards Festival. He was nominated for multiple City People Entertainment Awards and The Headies. Joeboy released the Dera-produced track “Call” on 10 April 2020. Described as a “catchy love song” by OkayAfrica, “Call” is the lead single from his upcoming debut studio album. The TG Omori-directed video for the single features dystopian sci-fi themes.
In January 2021, Joeboy announced his debut album, Somewhere Between Beauty & Magic, which was released in February 2021 to moderate commercial success.
On 19 May 2023, he released his sophomore studio album, Body & Soul, preceded by the four singles “Sip (Alcohol)”, “Contour”, “Body & Soul“, and “Duffel Bag“.
On the 3rd of November 2023, he released the earlier previewed Somophore single, Only God Save Me.
Joeboy Net Worth
Joeboy is regarded as a new-age Nigerian artiste, and he is one of Nigeria’s finest fast-rising acts. He has been nominated for several awards but has two awards under his belt.
Apart from being a musician and releasing studio music, he has performed severally at various music fests and concerts since entering the scene in 2017.
Some shows he has performed in are the: Mayor of Lagos Festival, Pop Campus, BBNaija House party, and some other fests. Performing at these places is not done for free as the host of each concert will have to pay money to his management.
After sales on his albums (Bars in 2019; Love & Light in 2019; The Herrera Chronicles in 2019), and his performance at music festivals, Joeboy has an estimated net worth of about $800,000 (N307,968,000).
