There are some Nigerian music artists you always marvel at their handsomeness. These ones are the celebrity crushes of many ladies. You will only see how people drool over their photos and videos on social media. Their comment sections are always filled with sweet words from ladies.

Aside their handsomeness, let's see their biographies and know what can have achieved so far in the entertainment industry.

 1. Chike-Ezekpeazu Osebuka born on 28th January 1993 who is popularly known by his stage name CHIKE is a singer, songwriter and actor known for his participation on the Nigerian reality competition Project Fame West Africa in 2015 and also in the talent competition TV show The Voice Nigeria Season 1 finishing runner-up on the show. Chike is an ambassador for Airtel Nigeria. Chike made his acting debut as Mayowa Badmus on the Africa Magic Showcase telenovela Battleground.

January 28, 1993 in Lagos, Lagos State, Nigeria.

Chike is a native of Onitsha, Anambra State in Nigeria. He comes from a family of four children. He is a graduate of Computer Engineering from Covenant University. He comes from a musically talented family and so had the passion to take up music as a career.

CHIKE who is a graduate from Covenant University with a degree in Computer Engineering started his music career in 2009 after winning an award as the vocalist of the year in his high school.[2]

Chike started his career and became a household name as a contestant on Project Fame West Africa. He was eliminated after reaching top 10.

Chike and ‘The Voice Nigeria’

Chike made a comeback auditioning for The Voice Nigeria with a rendition of "Roses" from the UK The X Factor winner James Arthur with all four coaches turning their chairs and standing up for him. Patoranking called him a star and said he was going to make him a superstar. Waje acknowledged him as her missing piece by saying "I dont have anybody on my team that sounds like you". After all the pitching, he chose to be on Team Patoranking.

In the battle round, he sang "Let Me Love You" from Mario with Team Patoranking contestant, Patrick and was picked by Patoranking to move to the next round. In the first week of the live shows, he sang the emotional ballad "Not the girl" from co-coach Dare Art Alade and earned himself the first save from his coach. He stole hearts with his second live show performance singing "Earned It" from The Weeknd and was saved by public votes. He gained international recognition with a heart-felt rendition of "I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles)" from The Proclaimers and earned his coach's final save of the season. For the semi-final, he went local singing "Pullover" from Kcee and Wizkid. In the finale, he sang "No Woman No Cry" from Bob Marley and the Wailers and for the final performance, he did a powerful rendition of "Mama" from Nigerian artist Kiss Daniel. He was dubbed the "Ladies' man" by the host of the show and "Chike-ranking" by his coach Patoranking.

He finished runner up of the inaugurative season of The Voice Nigeria on 31 July 2016 with A'rese from Team Waje finishing as winner of the contest.

After his stay on The Voice, Chike was signed to Universal Republic along with the other top four contestants on the show. He released his debut single Fancy U in December 2016 under the Universal Republic. He went on to release a music video some months later. Chike was also made an ambassador for Airtel Nigeria along with the other seven finalists of The Voice Nigeria.

In April 2017 it was confirmed that Chike had been cast by Africa Magic to play the role of Mayowa Badmus, a rich egocentric spoilt but clever son of the patriarch, Kolade Badmus in a new Family drama series called Battleground. In November 2017 he departed Universal Republic becoming an independent artist. He then released his next single titled "Beautiful People" in February 2018.

Chike released his album titled Boo of the Booless containing 14 tracks. It became the most listened to and number 1 album on 19th February 2020.

 2. John Ighodaro, professionally known as Johnny Drille, is a Nigerian singer and songwriter. His career came into the spotlight when he released a cover of "Awww" by Di'Ja. He is currently signed to Mavin Records. He was born on July 5th, 1990

Early life and education of Johnny:

Drille was born and raised in Edo State, Nigeria into a family of seven. His father was a school principal and clergyman. Drille started singing in his father's church at an early age. He attended the University of Benin, Benin City, where he studied English and literature.

He began his musical career in church. He was one of the contestants on the sixth season of Project Fame West Africa in 2013. In 2015, he released a cover of Di'Ja's "Awww", which caught the attention of Mavin's CEO Don Jazzy. His debut single "Wait for Me" was released in 2015. It was nominated for Best Alternative Song at The Headies 2016. He teamed up with Niniola, a fellow season 6 contestant, to record "Start All Over". In February 2017, he signed a record deal Mavin Records.

Johnny is one of the few artistes in the music industry with over 10 million streams globally across different streaming platforms like Youtube, Spotify, Boomplay and Apple Music.  

Johnny started singing in church with his siblings early enough. He joined the children choir and started playing keyboard in 2001. Also, he joined a group ‘Soul Awakening Signers’ and was singing with his sister and some other familiar people. Then, in 2006, he started teaching himself music production with his cassette recorders.

Johnny has been featured by other prominent musicians, whom he has done great collaborative songs with. His shows have also been graced by thousands of fans from different parts of the country.

 3.

Omah Lay who was originally born Stanley Omah Didia is a Nigerian songwriter and singer. He was born in Port Harcourt, River State of Nigeria, on May 19 1997. He is 23 years of age.

Growing up, Omah Lay started producing music at an early age as he took after his grandfather who was a percussionist for legendary Highlife singer Celestine Ukwu.

His dad who also was a drummer in as much as he didn’t reach higher heights yet he was the sounded hero in their locality in terms of drumming.

According to the singer, he started music at the age of 15 when he was a producer for a very long time and the started singing again.

Omah Lay’s style of music is decribed as a fusion of Burna Boy meeting Wizkid in one voice. One can call his style Afro-Fusion.

Singles like Hello Brother and Do Not Disturb which was released in the year 2019 started his emergence into the music scene but got everybody’s attention with ”You” and ”Bad Influence” which was off his debut EP Get Layd

Following the validating reception of both singles, Omah Lay shared the Get Layd EP contained other songs like Damn, LoLo, and Ye Ye Ye, which he released on May 22 to rudder-stamped the endorsement of his talent.

His first single which debuted on February 14, 2020, has been streamed numerously across all major music platforms and went ahead to top charts including Cool FM Tastemakers’ chart and Soundcity Top 20.

Omah Lay has been tipped by Native Mag on their March episode of ‘Fresh Meat’ as an artist to look out for in 2020.

Omah Lay is signed to Dvpper Music and is the first African artiste to be highlighted by the Africa Rising Initiative launched by Apple Music, a music and video streaming platform.

“Omah’s vocal delivery, varied as it may be, breathes life and emotion into his records, regardless of the genre he finds himself making, whether it’s a dance-ready number or a Hip-Hop” - The Native Mag.

Whom do you love the most amongst these three fine music artists?

Nigerian music industry has been of great help to we the citizens over the years, the vibes they bring and the lyrics of the albums. We celebrate these ones on rare occasions, especially when they win awards. We ought to celebrate our own artists everyday.

Here we made a list of Nigerian artists we miss in the industry.

See list below:

 1. Olamide Badoo: Olamide Adedeji, known professionally as Olamide, is a Nigerian hip hop recording artist. He records mostly in Yoruba, his native tongue. In 2011, he released his debut studio album Rapsodi while signed to Coded Tunes. YBNL, his follow-up album. Born on 15th March, 1989 in Bariga, Lagos. 

Timaya: Inetimi Timaya Odon, better known by his stage name Timaya, is a Nigerian singer and songwriter. He is the founder of DM Records Limited. His solo career began in 2005 with the release of "Dem Mama", which also appeared on his debut album.

Born on 5 August 1977 in Port Harcourt, River State of Nigeria. He actually is from Bayelsa.

Terry_G: Terry-G whose real name is Gabriel Oche Amanyi is a Nigerian musician and producer. He is widely known for his eccentric dress-sense, controversial lyrics and awkward identity. 

He was born on March 17, 1986 in Benue State. He started singing in the choir of his local church. 

Ice Prince: Ice Prince whose real name is Panshak Zamani was born on the 30th day of October, 1984, better known as Ice Prince, is a Nigerian rapper, songwriter and actor. He rose to fame after releasing "Oleku", one of Nigeria's most remixed songs of all time. He won the 2009 Hennessy Artistry Club Tour. His debut studio album Everybody Loves Ice Prince was released in 2011

Sky_B: Sky B, the first breakout rap star from Port Harcourt. He was the one who sang ‘I am calling baby, Ogechi my girl, etc. He was reported on the media to be dead sometime last year and he came out to say that the news was fake.

Humble Smith: Ekenedilichukwu Ijemba was born on May 14, 1991 Abakaliki, Ebonyi State, Nigeria.

He's from Asaba, Delta State, Nigeria.

Genres is R&B, afropop, highlife. After his ‘Osinachi’ song, he has not done anything in the music world again.

Korede Bello: He was born on the 29th day of February 1996 in Lagos State, Nigeria. He signed a record deal with Mavin Records in 2014. Bello is best known for his hit single "Godwin", a semi-gospel and pop song. He was first featured in Mavin All Star song ‘Dorobucci.’ 

Mongo Park was also a big hit of his that was trending some years ago. Unfortunately, he seems not to be popular as he was then. he recently tweeted a picture of him and he changed a lot.

Kelly Handsome: His name is Kelechi Orji Obinna George Michael. He was born on January 18th, some years ago. He hails from Eziobodo in Owerri West LGA of Imo State, Nigeria. He once worked with Kennis Music who he parted with not long after. He's got an album ‘Too Much Money’ to his name and there are singles in it which includes ‘like play, like play and true love.’

Kiss Daniel was born on May 1, 1994 in Abeokuta Ogun State, Nigeria to the family of Kola Anidugbe, a popular artist and art-educator in Ogun state. He attended Abeokuta Grammar School then proceeded to Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta (FUNAAB), where he studied Water Resources Management and Agrometeorology (Water Engineering). He graduated in 2013, and started his music career fully.

Chidinma Ekile: Chidinma Ekile was born on 2nd May 1991in Lagos State. She's popularly known by her stage name Chidinma. She also referred yo as ‘Miss. Kedike’ after she released a song called ‘kedike ehn’ In 2010, she rose to stardom after winning the third season of Project Fame West Africa.[4] Following the release of the music video for her "Emi Ni Baller" single, she became the first female musician to peak at number 1 on the MTV Base Official Naija Top 10 chart.

Omawumi: Omawumi rose to prominence as a contestant on Idols West Africa. Omawumi, with her strong voice and out-going personality, was voted the 1st runner-up of the competition when it ended in May 2007. Since then, she has had numerous performances on the stage with musicians such as Psquare, D Banj, Banky-w among others.

I actually do miss “my name is omawmi”.

Dr. Sid: Sidney Onoriode Esiri (born 1 May 1980 in Ikeja, Lagos state, Nigeria), known commonly as, Dr SID is a Nigerian singer-songwriter. He is from Urhobo in Delta state but born and raised in Lagos.

Tekno: Tekno’s case is quite different. His vocal box is temporarily damaged due to strain from overtime performances and cannot sing or perform for a while," the post read. These are trying times for Nigerian singer, Augustine Miles Kelechi, popularly known as Tekno, as his health seems to be failing him, his management has revealed. This was revealed last year on his social media handle. We do not know the situation now but we do miss him a lot.

Dagrin: Oladapo Olaitan Olaonipekun, also known as Dagrin, was a Nigerian rapper from Ogun, Nigeria. A film of his life entitled Ghetto Dreamz was released in April 201. He was born on 25 October 1984, Ogun State. Dagrin died on 22 April 2010, in Mushin, Lagos.

These arrists are still alive and healthy, the only one dead on the list is Dagrin, may he rest in peace, Amen to. We miss these ones being active in the music and entertainment industry. Do you miss them as well?

Help us mention the others, please.