Ikechukwu (aka International Killz) is a popular Nigerian rap artist born in Manassas (Virginia), USA. Ikechukwu attended Kings College (high-school) in Lagos and returned to the U.S. in pursuit of his Bachelors Degree. Ikechukwu later realized his passion for entertainment dominated his interests, so he pursued a career in music. Ikechukwu left NY for Nigeria in 2006 and released his debut album title Son of the Soil which featured break out single ‘My Name Is Ikechukwu.’ He got intercontinental notoriety bringing his label WFA and STORM records to the forefront of music in Nigeria and became the new face of hip-hop and progressive Nigerian music.
Career
After Ikechukwu’s freshman album 'Son of the Soil', he released ‘Life and Times of Killz’ which included hits like Shoobeedoo, Like You feat. Wande Coal, Wind Am Well feat. D’banj and Don Jazzy and We Go Hard feat. M.I. Ikechukwu independently released his third album ‘The Alliance Reconstructed’ through his personally owned record label WFA. This album included hits like Critical feat. D’banj, Now Is The Time feat. Don Jazzy, Tonite feat. Tuface Idibia, If To Say feat. Sound Sultan, In Ya Mind feat. Eldee and Djzeez. Ikechukwu’s accolades include, but are not limited to, Best Male Video (Channel O awards, 2008) Best Video (MTV Awards, 2008) Best Male West Africa (Channel O awards, 2009), and a bunch of nominations across Africa.
Today
Ikechukwu and his label mates Uzikwendu and Peter Clarke continue to release records from World Famous Akademy. Uzi's first release in 2011 was ‘stay stunting’, ‘osiso’ in 2012 which made ripples across the country. Peter Clarke has done several features on other artists’ songs like ‘phenom’ and ‘willybang’, he also released ‘u hawt’ feat killz, ‘amaka’ and ‘no be so’.
Killz made a resurgence in 2012 with “bu lie oto", “ifeoma” feat. Omo akin, love me tonite and B.A.D.A.
In 2013, featuring on hit single “fotojenik” by wizzboy, he followed suit with his own new single Balabala feat wizzboy. He also recently featured on smash hit “eziokwu” by lynxxx.
With “balabala” video about to drop, short film and full feature film coming this summer from WFA media 2013 is set to be a great year for Ikechukwu and the WFA camp.
For more information visit www.teamwfa.com and stay up to date via
Twitter @ikechukwukillz
Instagram: @ikechukwukillz
Facebook: Ikechukwu Onunaku
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