Nigerian Music - Objazz – Artist – New

Objazz Nigerian Music

Multi-talented recording artiste creates music that has a signature you can’t define you just know it when you hear it. Born Obinna Eze – Ajoku in Yaba Town of Lagos State, Objazz grew up in Festac Town listening to a lot of Hip-hop acts such as Nas, The Fugees, Redman, T-Bone and others while also listening to Jazz recordings of Kirk Whalum, George Benson and Victor Wooten.

A combination of the effects of these extremes is responsible for all the sound in-between that has become Objazz’s trademark. Multi-instrumentally talented Objazz plays the keyboards, the guitars, the saxophone along with percussions which makes it only natural that he be a very versatile producer. He also writes all his
songs and songs for other artists. Started doing music as early as age 7 learning the guitar and the piano. After a while he began to write and perform in school with the choir as well as doing solo performances. This was the beginning of his recording journey that will take him many years later to record a full-length album.

Objazz started producing for other artist while at the Federal University of Technology Owerri studying Electrical Engineering. Apparently not so moved to pursue his course of study as a major career, he sometimes travelled to Abuja and Lagos also for the same purposes and continued to develop his skill up to the point where he decided to do a mix-tape project. The initial idea of the mix-tape was to do beats and then feature individual well-known local acts. He also planned to feature in each track perhaps doing a verse or two or the hook. From the beginning this plan faced a lot of challenges and a lot of acts were not too excited about featuring on the project since Objazz was relatively unknown on the music scene at that time. He then decided to pull out all his scraps of ideas and writings and combine them with his unique-sounding beats and his debut album was formed.

The self titled album features different sides to the artist which in some respects features different sides of the individual. His unusual style of releasing more than one single a time allows audience feel two sides of one person at the same time. His first two singles “Mass Hysteria” and “Keep Running”did just that. The former features a voice sample of the late Fela Anikulapo-Kuti over a nice hip-hop sounding beat laced on with heavy, strong and hard rap verses. The latter features Objazz singing in English and his native tongue ‘igbo’ and rapping over a pacing instrumental to connote the feel of someone running. His second two set of singles are “Gbasibe” and “Carry Go”. “Gbasibe” is a happy-feeling groove meant to make you groove with fresh easy flowing rhymes while “Carry Go” is a very soulful track which features Objazz singing and scatting. This track has been defined by many as being in a world of its own because of its feel, the mood it sets you into and the unique sounding scat at the end that really climaxes the track. It also has a fun element to it and leaves an impression on everyone that hears it. ‘One More Chance’ a new single released August 2009 getting heavy rotation both locally and internationally and on online radio stations. It’s another motivational track that features Objazz delivery the rap with such great flow that gets the attention of even non-rap listeners. Fresh, unique and featuring vocal samples from Sly n Robbie, Bob Marley and some patua chants.

Objazz has performed on stages with the likes of D’banj, P Square, Timaya, 9ice, Styl Plus and many other popular major Nigerian acts also having played years back as keyboardist and bass guitarist for live performances of various artists. His solo performances indeed are a site to behold with his mannerisms, carriage and unique dance steps he chips into each song. Objazz works under his own label ‘WAVEHOUSE RECORDINGS’ and with all his ‘stuff’ and potential, being a singer, rapper, writer audio engineer and producer, he is sure to break bounds that have never been broken by any of his predecessors.

Contact:www.myspace.com/objazzwavehouse
www.reverbnation/objazz
#07029288603