He wasn’t always so self-assured. When Obongjayar first started posting music to SoundCloud, he was making “terrible American rap,” he says, trying to be someone he was not. “If you grew up in Nigeria ...

Fred Again.. is keeping the summer going with a sweet love song. Tonight (August 11), the EDM go-to has teamed up with Nigerian singer Obongjayar for his new song, “Adore U.” On “Adore U,” Fred crafts ...

Ask Obongjayar when he first realized he wanted to make music for a living and he’ll tell you about a dream he had when he was six years old. At that time, he was living in his hometown of Calabar, a ...

It feels like Obongjayar is on the precipice of going big. The 32-year-old — real name Steven Umoh but prefers to go by OB — has been making music for over a decade but his profile has swelled in ...

Obongjayar is Nigerian through and through. But having left the country in his teens, the 20-something representation of Africanism now speaks with a distinct English accent. Yet, his ways are still ...

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You may already be familiar with British-Nigerian singer Obongjayar's name. He was featured alongside Kamasi Washington, Ibeyi, Sampha and more on Richard Russel's Everything Is Recorded, and he has ...

The Nigerian-born, London-based artist returns with his strongest work yet, celebrating black selfhood in expansive, richly textured songs rooted in Afrobeat and electronic soul. “Our fathers put us ...

Obongjayar has returned to share his new single, "Jellyfish", as the latest offering from his forthcoming second album, PARADISE NOW. Obongjayar underscored how “Jellyfish” is a medium for ...