Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. He wasn’t always so self-assured. When Obongjayar first started posting music to SoundCloud, he was making “terrible American rap, ...

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 ...

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 and producer Sarz have joined forces on their new Sweetness EP, which is teamed with a video for lead single "Gone Girl". After meeting in London last year and agreeing to create something ...

British-Nigerian musician Obongjayar has been rising in popularity stateside ever since his show-stealing feature on Little Simz’s Sometimes I Might Be Introvert standout “Point And Kill” back in 2021 ...

In the two years since Obongjayar dropped his last EP, Bassey, he's worked extensively with both Danny Brown and the Everything Is Recorded collective. However, he's also lived through a period of ...

The Nigerian-born London singer Obongjayar doesn't have any one particular style or genre. Instead, he's a free-floating specter who brings a sort of ghostly gravitas to everything he does. Obongjayar ...

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 ...

When I got downstairs to greet Obongjayar and his bandmates at NPR headquarters, they had already found their way over to some stationary bikes near the lobby to get the adrenaline pumping. OB and ...

The London-based, Nigerian-born musician talks with NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro about his new album, "Which Way Is Forward?" which embraces his cultural heritage to tackle different aspects of power.

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 ...

For almost a decade now, Obongjayar’s chameleonic voice has offered words of self-love, survival, and seduction. When he steps an octave up from his resting pitch, the Nigerian-born, London-based ...