The King of the North as he’s fondly refered to as is one of the most hardworking Entertainers in the northern part of the country. Reputable for his unique costumes and Indian-style song-and-dance routines, he has taken his brand of music to another level. Last year, he did a collabo of Shoki with Orezi and he upped the ante with new visual for his hit song ‘Alhaji.’ ‘Alhaji’ has been enjoying rave review and airplay on Northern Nigerian Radio and only deserving of a visual that interprets it best. He teams up with OMG – the director behind the Ruggedman’s ‘Because of You’ and LKT’s ‘Alaye (Remix) ft. Davido – to deliver a crispy clear visual for the pop number heavily fused with the Northern Nigerian instrumentation. With ‘Alhaji,’ The entertainer shares his story, tells all about the hardwork and struggle to break into the music scene outside of the North. He also sang in Yoruba and pidgin English, which makes the song different from what he has been doing before. The visual was shot in Capetown and Lagos, Nigeria. Kannywood star, Sani Danja has established his position as the most flamboyant and possibly richest actor in the Northern part of Nigeria movie industry. And this is because of his recent acquisition of a new property valued at N200m and a Tundra SUV.
Sani Danja is an actor and a musician who has never failed to delight his fans on and off the screen. The entertainer who has managed to establish himself as a great singer was born into a family of seven, five boys and two girls. Sani lost his father, Alhaji Musa Abdullahi sometime in his late teenage years before his mother Hajiya Risikat died in 1997. Sani steadily climbed the ladder of success armed with hard work, determination and sheer talent, natural born entertainer, a very good dancer at the early age of 12, was blessed with a sonorous voice that never seized to thrill his audience. He was an outstanding member of the ‘Young Kiddies Voice’ a musical children’s group that dazzled during the late eighties, ‘those were my most cherished moment of singing, though they were all Christians he was the only Muslim member but got along very well”, “Eventually co-singers with ‘YKV’ started singing as choirs, that was what led to the break-up of the group”, Sani Danja continue his music career as a solo, the first step that brought him to limelight. And he was responsible for producing one of the best selling Hausa song in the early nineties. ‘Yaki-taho-yaki’. He ventured into the Hausa movie industry in 1999 with his debut movie ‘students’ (Dalibai), a film he produced and directed alongside his business partner Yakubu Muhammad.
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