Shatta Wale signs three-year contract with Zylofon Media
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Arts and entertainment conglomerate, Zylofon Media has signed a three-year record label contract with multiple award-winning dancehall artiste, Shatta Wale known in real life as Charles Nii Armah Mensah Jnr.
The deal with the ‘Ayoo’ hitmaker was announced Wednesday, January 31, 2018 at the company’s head office at East Legon in Accra.
It is rumored that the juicy deal with the free-spending record label is worth $1.5 million, a rolls Royce and a house.
The leader of the Shatta Movement joins a stable which includes Stonebwoy, Becca, Kumi Guitar, Joyce Blessing, Obibini who were signed by the record label last year.
Shatta is famous for hit songs such as ‘Kakai,’ ‘Mahama Paper,’ ‘Ayoo,’ ‘Taking Over,’ which have in the past earned him a visit to the Presidency.
About Shatta Wale
Charles Nii Armah Mensah Jnr is a Ghanaian-born producer and reggae/dancehall musician. He is known by his stage name Shatta Wale but was formerly called Bandana. Shatta won the Artiste of the Year at the 2014 edition of the Ghana Music Awards.
He reportedly traveled to Jamaica to study dancehall music. Wale made cameo appearances in the movies Never Say Never and Shattered Lives.