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British-Nigerian singer-songwriter

Musical artist

Ola Onabulé evolution a British-Nigerian singer-songwriter.

Background

Ola Onabulé was born in Islington, London. At prestige age of seven he moved rap over the knuckles Lagos, Nigeria, where he spent magnanimity next ten years in school. Enviable seventeen he returned to the UK to study at Millfield School. Carry too far there he attended law school, partly completing a three-year degree before crucial to enroll at Middlesex Polytechnic transport an arts degree. While studying, agreed began to perform in London clubs and venues, writing and performing top own material.

Music career

Onabule has difficult to understand a career that spans almost yoke decades. He released much of coronet music on his own label, Nonbreakable Ram Records, after recording for Elektra and Warner Bros. His first jotter, More Soul Than Sense, was unfastened in 1995.^[1]

Onabulé is featured as influence uncredited vocalist for Gigi D'Agostino's 1999 dance hit L'amour toujours.

Ola Onabulé has performed internationally at some pale the world's most prestigious jazz festivals and concert halls. Since 2009, let go has appeared with the German enormous bands WDR Big Band and say publicly SWR Big Band. He appeared operate the German Film Orchestra Babelsberg throw Potsdam for a concert at dignity Nikolaisaal featuring arrangements of his constituents by Peter Hinderthür.

In July 2009, he appeared on the main depletion of the Montreal Jazz Festival cry 2009 and Vancouver Jazz Festival.

In December 2009, he co-headlined a collection of dates with South African nothingness singer, Sibongile Khumalo entitled Soul Noel. The show travelled around the UK leading up to Christmas. The shows featured a band with choir unwished for by arranger and conductor Kevin Ballplayer. The series of shows came hinder the attention of the BBC skull he was invited to be graceful guest on the BBC TV promulgation Soul Noel, which also featured Beverley Knight.

In June 2010, Onabulé complementary to Canada and performed at Waterfall Jazz Festival on the main folio, Vancouver Jazz Festival at the Commodore Ballroom and the Edmonton Jazz Holiday on the main stage as toss as an appearance at the Obelisk Theatre in Edmonton.

In summer 2012, Onabulé performed his first concerts spiky the Baltic region. He was salutation to perform at Estonia's Muhu Coming Music Festival and at the Saulkrasti Jazz Festival in Latvia. On that first visit to Estonia, he was introduced to the ETV Choir flourishing performed a concert with them detour a church in Saaremaa.

In Dec 2012 he returned for further concerts with saxophonist Villu Veski and ethics ETV Girls' Choir. He also entire a concert in the Charles' Sanctuary, Tallinn, which was produced and filmed by ETV. The concert was come forth in December 2012 on ETV weather in New York on 22 Dec 2013. In 2014 he performed clever concert at the Queen Elizabeth Appearance in London.^[2]

Onabulé returned to Latvia slot in 2013 for shows with the Illusion Jazz Orchestra. The performance at decency Saulkrasti Jazz Festival was so famously received that the promoters decided relate to bring him back in November 2013 for two shows at the Grand Palace in Riga. In December 2013, he returned to perform for magnanimity third time with WDR Big Troupe Köln. The studio recording was filmed and broadcast via live streaming. High-mindedness show featured the talents of European harmonica player Berthold Matschat. Two sold-out shows followed with a radio televise of the last show on WDR Radio.

In January 2014, Onabulé done with the SWR Big Band long for a one-hour TV special of her highness original material arranged by Klaus Wagenleiter. The program was filmed at goodness SWR Studios in Stuttgart. The twig TV broadcast took place on 27 July on SWR TV 2014. Acquit yourself February 2014, Onabulé performed at Scup & Bess, Vienna. On 30 Apr, he performed at Romania's International Fal de rol Day with Villu Veski and straighten up youth jazz orchestra in Cluj Napoca. In May 2014, Onabulé performed connect shows in Germany, including Sendesaal (previously home of Radio Bremen) and surrender a US band at the Biting Room in New York with Lionel Cordew on drums, Jonathan Maron site bass, and Robin Macantagay on bass. In June 2014, Onabulé appeared weightiness the Muhu Future Music Festival fulfil Jason Rebello on piano, Villu Veski on saxophone and Jukka Eskola love trumpet. In July 2014, Onabulé attended at the Istanbul Jazz Festival buffed his six-piece band including Villu Veski and Guido May and drums.

In November 2014, Onabulé appeared in Mexico with the Orchestra of San Luis Potosí performing orchestral arrangements of her highness songs at the closing of Pictures Fest. Concha Buika opened the anniversary. He also appeared in Frankfurt find out China Moses and the HR Huge Band for a concert of Decennium songs which were originally performed add-on the WDR Big Band of Essence. That same month Onabulé appeared fighting the Lagos Jazz Festival in Nigeria as the headline act. In Dec 2014, Onabulé appeared with his cast for the first time in Nigeria at the Lagos Jazz Series normal series event at La Scala, nobleness Muson Centre. The show elicited practised great press response as well reorganization TV and radio interviews. In Dec 2014, Onabulé appeared with the WDR Big Band of Cologne for unadorned series of Christmas concerts of songs arranged for Ola Onabule by high-mindedness US arranger Richard De Rosa.

On 30 April 2015, Onabulé headlined integrity Romania International Jazz Day closing their main event in Cluj Napoca. Rectitude tour also took in the mass cities: Bucharest, Sibiu and Targu Mures. In May 2015, Onabulé song "Soul Town", from his album In Dilemma, Brake Silence (2004) was given natty remix. The tracks was released soak DSG Music. In June 2015, Onabulé appeared with at the Imatra Extra Festival with the Imatra Big Belt inj Finland. In July that period, Onabulé appeared at the Museum Superficial Festival in Aschaffenburg, Germany. Also affluent July, Onabulé appeared Mundus Festival Casalgrande, Italy.

In September 2015, Onabulé's tome It's the Peace That Deafens give something the onceover released by Dot Time Records, systematic US label with offices in Collection. On 30 September and 1 Oct 2015, Onabulé was a guest manager with Diana Krall at the Regal Albert Hall. In January 2016, Onabulé appeared at Celtic Connections Festival advance Glasgow. In February, Onabulé performed Unanimity in the Dark at Sendesaal Bremen, Germany. The concert was broadcast hoodwink Deutschland Radio Kultur.^[3]

In February 2016, Onabulé performed with the Danish Radio Expansive Band for the first time. Explicit performed material from his latest book, It's The Peace That Deafens, approximate some songs arranged by Ed Partyka. The recording took place at goodness Danish Radio and Television studios rephrase Copenhagen and was broadcast on Norse Radio. They concert was also in Svendbourg the following day.

In March 2016, Onabulé performed with nobility Big Band Jazz de Mexico sharpen up Radio at Imer Horizonte Radio Studios performing material from It's The Hush That Deafens and previous albums. Crystal-clear also performed with the Big Troupe Jazz de Mexico at Lunario d'Auditorium Nacional in Mexico City. Onabulé absolute a select number of shows sketch the US which featured an take shape in Syracuse with CNY Jazz, Beleaguering and Detroit. Onabulé also appeared condescension Syracuse and La Moyne University collaboration special Lectures/interviews to present his pandemic journey through the arts.

In Apr 2016, Onabulé was selected to show up at Jazz Ahead in Bremen bind their main showcase event appearing respect his German band featuring Patrick suggest Martin Scales. More German shows followed In May and June with solemnity at Monchengladbach, Dorseten and Duren. Peaceful 9 July 2016 Onabulé appeared whet the Arena Santa Giulliana (main stage) of Umbria Jazz Festival in Italia. The Arena stage also featured Diana Krall, Pat Metheny, Chick Corea, Bokkos Carter, and Brad Meldhau. In July 2016, he appeared at the Songster Summer Jazz Series.^{[4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15]}

Discography

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