Onabule (Ola)   (UK)

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Ola Onabule albums

	Society Of Sound Music (Bonus Album)		BUY X
	Precious Libations For Silent Gods)	1999	BUY X
	Ambitions For Deeper Breadth	2002	BUY X
	In Emergency Brake Silence	2004	BUY X
	The Devoured Man	2007	BUY X
	Seven Shades Darker	2010	BUY X
	Seven Shades, Lighter	2011	BUY X
	It's The Peace That Deafens	27th Sep 2015	BUY X
	Point Less	30th Aug 2019	BUY X

Ola Onabule singles

	Every Kinda People	1994	BUY X
	The Picture	2000	BUY X
	All I Want For Christmas Is Your Love	2003	BUY X
	The Devoured Man Promo only	2007	BUY X
	6 Song EP	2012	BUY X
	Soul Town (feat. Drizabone)	25th May 2015	BUY X

Ola Onabule remixes

	Soul Town (Nigel Lowis Remix)	2015	BUY X
	Soul Town 2015 The Remixes	2015	BUY X

Featurings and collaborations

Chris James - Show Me Love

2013

BUY X

Aliases - Records released under other names

	Ola - You'd Better Believe	1994	BUY X
	Ola - More Soul Than Sense (album)	1995	BUY X
	Ola - Trust Is All	1995	BUY X
	Ola - Bringing Love Back Again	1996	BUY X
	Ola - From Meaning, Beyond Definition (album)	1997	BUY X

Ola Onabule biography

British-Nigerian singer and songwriter Ola Onabulé was born in Islington (England). His main musical genre is Jazz and Soul. At the age of seven he returned to Lagos, Nigeria, where he spent the next 10 years in school. At 17 he went back to the UK to study at Millfield School. From there, he attended law school, almost completing a 3-years degree before deciding to enroll at Middlesex Polytechnic for an arts degree. While studying, he began to perform in London clubs and venues, writing and performing his own material.

He released much of his music on his own label, Rugged Ram Records, after recording for Elektra and Warner Bros. His first album, More Soul Than Sense, was released in 1995 under name Ola. Then, 2 years later, came sophomore album From Meaning, Beyond Definition.

In 1999 his voice became world famous thanks to the mega hit I'll Fly With You (L'Amour Toujours) by Italian DJ Gigi D'agostino. Ola Onabulé performed both the male and female voice (which was modified via auto-tune). Success was massive, but he was not credited. He sang on many other Gigi D'agostino songs : Another Way, Nothing Else and Silence without having his name ever mentioned.

Since then, Ola Onabulé has performed internationally at some of the world's most prestigious jazz festivals and concert halls. In Germany, he took part to WDR Big Band and SWR Big Band, as well as the German Film Orchestra Babelsberg in Potsdam for a concert. He also performed on the main stage of the Montreal Jazz Festival and Vancouver Jazz Festival. He co-headlined a series of shows with South African jazz singer, Sibongile Khumalo entitled Soul Noel, which led him to be a guest on the BBC TV program Soul Noel.

2010 : back to Canada, he performed at Victoria, Vancouver and Edmonton Jazz Festivals .

2012 : he was invited to perform at Estonia's Muhu Future Music Festival and at the Saulkrasti Jazz. He returned for further concerts with saxophonist Villu Veski and the ETV Girls' Choir.

2013 : he returned to Latvia in 2013 for shows with the Mirage Jazz Orchestra, from the Saulkrasti Jazz Festival to the Splendid Palace in Riga. In December, he was back with the WDR Big Band in Cologne.

2014 : he performed at Porgy & Bess in Vienna, then at Romania's International Jazz Day, but also in Germany, New York. Mexico, Nigeria and London.

2015 : he headlined the Romania International Jazz Day, then performed at the Imatra Jazz Festival in Finland, Museum Night Festival in Germany and Mundus Festival Casalgrande in Italy. His album It's the Peace That Deafens was released on US label Dot Time Records. It also included the song Soul Town, from his album In Emergency and a remix for Brake Silence

2016 : he appeared at Celtic Connections Festival (Glasgow), Concert In The Dark (Bremen, Germany). Some shows in the US followed. The same year, he was selected to appear at Jazz Ahead (Bremen, Germany).

2019 : he released his new album Point Less.

Ola Onabulé vocals :
Chris James feat. Ola Onabule - Show Me Love (2013)
Gigi D'Agostino - Another Way (1999), I'll Fly With You (L'Amour Toujours) (2000), L'Amour Toujours (2001), - Silence (2003)
Gigi D'Agostino - Nothing Else (2004) compilation only
Shut Up And Dance - The Weekend's Here (1995)

Thanks to Andrew-FK

Ola Onabule biography was last updated Wed, August 19th 2020

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