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HE CAME AND GOT US ALL DANCING WITH HIS HIT SONG, FOKASIBE. OH HOW WE DANCED! SOON AFTER THAT
CAME SINGLES LIKE ‘BOBBY EEH’ AND THEN DJ ZEEZ DISAPPEARED FROM THE SCENE. HF MAGAZINE HOOKED
UP WITH THE GOOD LOOKING DUDE AND HE REALLY LOOKED FABULOUS. KINGSLEY ELIKPO AKA DJ ZEEZ TELLS
US WHAT HE HAS BEEN UP TO LATELY, HE ALSO DELVES INTO THE PAST AND RECOUNTS HIS EXPERIENCES AS
AN ARTISTE. THE IBO/YORUBA BORN ARTISTE ALSO SPEAKS ABOUT HIS LATE BUDDY, DAGRIN, BLESS HIS SOUL.
DEAR AUDIENCE, WE GIVE YOU DJ ZEEZ…
HF: How would you narrate your journey so far?
DZ: It’s been adventurous and challenging. The ups and downs which
come along the line is what keeps you going, especially being that I
started as a DJ and evolved to the artiste I am today. I started from a
DJ, to producing beats and then rapping, before singing. It has been
fun all the way, it has been really cool.
Dj Zeez
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HF: How has the transformation shaped you?
DZ: It has given me a wonderful experience, there is nothing that
happens within the music industry that would come as a surprise. I
have groomed myself to expect the unexpected. The transformation has
made me very stable mentally and psychologically.
HF: What’s the story of your artistic name DJ ZEEZ?
DZ: The Dj was obviously because I was a DJ, ZEEZ is not a short
form of Azeez as most people would confuse it for, my name is not
Azeez. It is actually an urban word from the urban English dictionary
which means simply cool.
HF: As a performing artist name some of the people you looked
up to?
DZ: Back then, I looked up to the likes of DJ Jimmy Jatt, DJ