He has won several music awards including the best African act at MTV Empire Music Awards 2007, Artist of the year at the MTV African Music Awards 2009 and BET Awards of 2011 for Best International Acts,Africa. He adopted the stage name D’Banj, a combination of his first name Dapo and his surname Oyebanjo.

D’Banj is currently best known internationally for his 2012 summer hit ‘Oliver Twist’, an untempo dance fusion of Afro-beats and electronic dance music that topped the African charts 2011 and was top 10 hit in the UK singles chart in 2012 reaching #2 on the UK R&B chart.

D’banj is a founder of Koko Foundation for Youth and Peace Development. He is also Nigeria’s first united Nations Youth Ambassador for Peace. This has been hailed as the torchbearer for the new generation of artistes of Nigeria,also as an
outstanding role model.