The Nigerian singer Mr. Eazi announced the 30 artists who will take part in the second edition of his talent incubator program emPawa Africa on Wednesday. Eazi launched emPawa in with the goal of investing in promising artists early so they could develop self-sustaining careers. Derobie, who scored hits last year after connecting with emPawa. Initially Mr. The money was meant to cover the cost of a music video. While many streaming services that are popular in the U. Eazi explains.
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About Mr Eazi
Nigeria has dominated the Afrobeats scene for years with its heady mix of local music, global pop, and hip-hop. Half the magic is in the language: This man can slide from the Queen's English to fluent Yoruba in the space of a single line, touching on Ghanaian pidgin English along the way. It makes for a heady, border-erasing listen. This is instant street party music, and it's made Eazi popular on the tour circuit. There, his engineering studies vied for attention with his burgeoning career as a club promoter.
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Oluwatosin Ajibade born 19 July , better known by his stage name Mr Eazi, is a Nigerian singer, songwriter, and entrepreneur. He is the pioneer of Banku music, a fusion sound he describes as a mixture of Ghanaian highlife and Nigerian chord progressions and patterns. He showed interest in music after recording a guest verse on "My Life", a song that gained traction and became a popular record at KNUST. Mr Eazi released his debut mixtape About to Blow in July He gained an international audience following the release of the Efya-assisted single "Skin Tight".
Oluwatosin Ajibade born 19 July , [1] better known by his stage name Mr Eazi , is a Nigerian singer, songwriter, and entrepreneur. His mother owned a small business and his father is a pilot. The latter parent established his own private aviation consulting practice. Prior to that, he established a party and promotion company called Swagger Entertainment. Mr Eazi released his track debut mixtape About to Blow in July The former was released in mid, while the latter was released in He was contacted by UK-based Ghanaian producer Juls, who got a hold of some of his recordings. The Guardian newspaper included the song on its list of the 10 biggest African tracks of In February , organizers of the Vodafone-sponsored Ghana Music Awards made a decision not to nominate Mr Eazi in any of its Ghanaian-only categories.
