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Oby Onyioha

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Oby Onyioha, one of the doyens of the Nigerian music industry, first burst onto the Nigerian music scene with the chart bursting <a href="spotify:album:3WIcvvfMAPXQ4Y0CuGNlpG" data-name="I Want to Feel Your Love">I Want to Feel Your Love</a> album that took the Nigerian music world by storm in the 1980’s. This was followed by an equally big hit <a href="spotify:album:0cmRFpIPxPQo3GME5FGwgx" data-name="Break It">Break It</a> around the same period, all this at a time when disco and break-dance music was considered the exclusive domain of western artistes. Its novelty and unprecedented release catapulted her into being the singular pioneer of the disco and break-dance music in Nigeria at a time when there was a paucity of the genre. It was new; it was refreshing, more especially as the tracks were sprinkled with some memorable African songs. She became the first Nigerian female scholastic achiever to venture into the music business, a vocation
that had hitherto been denigrated as a profession for the ‘academically challenged’ female. She therefore played a big part in helping to break that perception of the Nigerian female musician.
In addition to recordings in Western- themed music, she has rediscovered her heritage in African music, a genre she now pursues with equal vigour, dedication and professionalism.

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