At only 17, MTN gave me N20m endorsement — Davido

Popular Nigerian singer Davido said as a teenager, he had won a multimillion-naira endorsement deal.

Davido said he had only two songs when a telecom company gave him an endorsement deal worth N20 million at 17 years.

Davido, who disclosed this in an interview, said: “I remember when MTN, a telecommunication company, came, and they were like, they want to do endorsement, but then he (dad) was like, how much, and I said 20 million. I was 17. Nobody has seen that kind of money.

“Wow, this is from music, and it’s off like two songs, of course. I’m like, ‘Daddy, see, we can do this’.

“He looking at it, he built me a studio and gave me some money to run my stuff and did my first album, and it came out really really successful.”