Nigerian singer Adedamola Adefolahan popularly known as Fireboy DML is one of the biggest stars in the Nigerian entertainment industry at the moment.
Hit songs like “Jealous,” “Peru,’’ “King,” “Need You,’’ “Bandana,” and more have seen the YBNL singer establish his presence as one of the best in the Nigerian music industry.
His exceptionality has seen him work internationally in collaboration with British singer Ed Sheeran for the song “Peru.’’
Fans jump on every song released by Fireboy, but few are aware of how he came up with his name.
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In an interview with Okay Africa, he narrated that the need to rebrand made him add Fireboy to his former stage name, DML.
He narrated:
“I first was just DML, from my name, Damola. It was the acronym I was using for a while. At that point, I had not found my sound. I was sounding like a regular Afrobeats artist, like what every pop Afro artist was sounding like at that time. But when I sat down, took some time to actually know what my sound was, I decided to rebrand.”
His bid to rebrand made him Google what pops up when someone searches for DML before he chose to add Fireboy to his name, a nickname he got from a friend.
“I went to Google ‘DML’ and I was like, ‘okay, when you blow up what will people see when they look up DML?’ I saw ‘data manipulation’ and I thought, ‘nah, this is not what you want for yourself!’ Fireboy is what a friend called me one time and it just had a nice ring to it. So, there you go. Nothing deep.’’
Fireboy is one of the most outstanding Nigerian singer-songwriters at the moment. His sounds have garnered millions of streams across different platforms.