Nigeria, Oct. 24 -- In a recent Apple Music interview, Omoniyi "Zlatan" Raphael took listeners back to the unexpected beginnings of his music career, a journey kicked off not by ambition but by failure.

Before he became known worldwide as the creator of the viral Zanku dance, he was simply a pastor's son who played drums in church and a teenager who couldn't get into university because of his poor grades.

The 30-year-old said: "I was supposed to go to university in 2011/12, but I didn't have my complete papers. I failed mathematics and accounting, so that I couldn't attend school that year. But like you said, I used to be a church boy. I used to be in the choir in church. My dad is a pastor, so I played drums in church. I know a little ...