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Banks Music

Independent recording imprint of Nigerian artist Reekado Banks, launched 2018 after leaving Mavin Records.

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Banks Music is the recording imprint of Nigerian artist Reekado Banks (Ayoleyi Hanniel Solomon), launched on 7 December 2018 after he exited Mavin Records. It is not a subsidiary of any major group; no corporate registry filing for “Banks Music” as a legal entity has been located, and Nigeria’s Corporate Affairs Commission has no public search interface to check further.

The imprint releases Reekado Banks’ own catalogue and has routed through at least three different outside distributors since 2019: Virgin Music Nigeria (2023), OtherSide Media Limited / MAD Solutions LLC (2021 to 2024), and Reekadia Limited / Ziiki Media (2025 to date). Whether OtherSide Media and Reekadia are renamed versions of the same entity or separate companies used by the artist could not be established from public sources, and none of the changes appear to have been formally announced.

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