Adedamola Adefolahan is a trailblazing Nigerian artiste who has combined Afrobeats, and R&B sounds to delight thousands and thousands of enthusiasts. The talented singer is understood professionally as Fireboy DML and has won the hearts of thousands of Afrobeats fanatics with his pinnacle-notch songwriting ability, which sets him aside from his contemporaries. Currently signed to YBNL Records, Fireboy DML broke out in the enterprise with the radio jamming single, Jealous, which sat on the pinnacle of numerous track charts in the country for weeks.
Would have thought that this Yoruba demon would rise to be the best! Fireboy DML was born into a Christian domestic and was raised within the identical religion. Beyond the coolest morals that his mother and father’s self-assurance instilled in him, it also created a love for tune in him. Because he and his mother and father attended church often, he fast evolved a smooth spot for the church’s choir and became deeply desirous about the system concerned with making a track. He quickly got his hazard to check the waters of the creative present while he was older and joined the choir.
During this period, the flame of artistry in Fireboy DML became born, and he started out to take track more severely. Whenever he wasn’t busy with college work, he could take time out to compose songs. And after a while, he began appearing those songs to the joys of his siblings and close buddies. In a count of time, he became famous in his college for being a scholar with a lovely voice and who knew how to compose ear-catching songs. But he was normally viewed through the lens of a nerd because he was a clever student. He additionally wore medicated eyeglasses at some stage in this period. Another creative gift that he had was writing, which he explored thoroughly in the form of poetry. He was recognized for penning down lovely poems whilst he was much more youthful.
Fireboy DML‘s journey into track deepened as an undergraduate at Obafemi Awolowo University. He commenced spending more time writing songs, which he recorded in a studio across the school’s campus. With time, he has become the institution’s rising artist, inclusive of the likes of rappers Chinko Ekun, Cheque, Blaqbonez, and singer, Asake. Fire Boy’s success as an artist was sealed whilst he became acquainted with YBNL Records’ boss Olamide. The older artiste, who was impressed by his sound and songwriting capability, was determined to sign him underneath YBNL Records.
Jealous, his step-forward single had earlier been released as a part of the label’s collaborative project, YBNL Family, earlier than it was re-released on the 25th Of March 2019. This selection was taken due to the fact the tune was already doing notable numbers on radio, receiving massive airplay across stations on a daily foundation. Three months later, in a show of his extraordinary artistry, Fireboy DML released the pinnacle-charting, single King, which recorded hundreds of streams in the weeks after its release. The track, which have been dropped on the 1st Of August 2019, had its tune video directed by TG Omori.
After spending months in the studio, Fireboy DML later completed his debut studio album and released Laughter, Tears, and Goosebumps to essential acclaim and commercial fulfillment on the 29th Of November 2019. The album, which is a thirteen-track mission, collected over 6 million Spotify streams in the space of three days. Less than a year after his debut album, he took the industry by Marvel with the announcement that he had a second album on the way. His sophomore album, Apollo, was released on the 17th Of August 2020. Apollo is home to hit singles like Champion, Tattoo, Eli, and New York City Girl.
In another display of his penchant for making extremely good songs, Fireboy DML launched the international hit single, Peru, which helped him spoil the international tune scene. He secured a collaboration request with singer Ed Sheeran, who requested to be at the remix of the track. The remix, which was dropped on the fifth Of February 2022, debuted on the Billboard Hot hundred charts.
FireBoy kicked for his ardor at a very early stage in the church choir considering the fact that he observed himself to be a talented singer and songwriter. FireBoy DML with a one-of-a-kind sound made up of a type of afro-pop, pop, and RnB which grabs his fanatics looking extra of him.
FireBoy is suspected to be a one-time rapper who switched to singing with his potential to do multi-syllabic rhymes without difficulty in all of his songs and even play with words without difficulty. FireBoy DML is understood to infuse every rap criterion into his lyrics which makes his song unique and receives him love from rap enthusiasts.
Since then, FireBoy’s been recognized to be compared to Mavin Records Signee “Rema” and Banku Music act “Joeboy” as they’re gifted Nigerian artists currently doing fine and setting the tempo for the opposition between them as completed by means of their various fans. He is presumed to be single, but a few have speculated that he’s in a critical dating, even though he’s yet to permit the cat out of the bag. The 6-foot tall singer loves to keep info about his personal life non-public from the general public.
He is a favorite of hundreds of male and lady Afrobeats fans in the country, and he has been known to live off social media dramas and scandals.
