Music critic/strategist, Adeosun Omotayo Emmanuel better known with the brand name, Alan Harbiodinho has kick-started his music project – not as a music artiste, but the first PR to produce a musical album which will come first as an EP before graduating into a LP album.
‘Your No.1 Strategical PR as he is otherwise called has been privileged to work with both Nigerian & International acts over the past 5 years since he launched his Entertainment brand (officially) – H! Entertainment – mother company to H! Promotions.
In a bid to creating good music for its listeners & doing something exceptional, Alan has taken an outstanding step to further bridge the connection between Nigerian and South-African artistes – to show the world that we still have much more to offer from Africa.
Enlisting the service of a renowned South-African artiste, Dr. Malinga to join forces with talented music professionals in Nigeria with the likes of; Wale Waves, Dre-sticks, Creddy F, G-Fresh (Gabriel Afolayan) & Klever Jay, H! Entertainment is proud to present its creative head in the track christened “Fakosi”.
‘Fakosi’ which can simply be described in English as ‘Swag-up’, is an up-tempo beat song produced by Ace music producer/hit-maker, Puffy Tee, mixed/mastered by Dre-sticks. The Hip Hop track will sure get you up on your feet-dancing with any choice of moves you choose to introduce to it.
BRIEF INFO ABOUT FEATURED ARTISTES
Dr Malinga: Doctor Goodwill Malinga, South-Africa’s best Afro/House Entertainer, an Ambassador of South African Tourism, and record label owner.
The Lingas Entertainment CEO/Artiste who have been voted as ‘Most Talked About Celebrity’ in South-Africa, has his own popular dance called ‘Linga Dance’. He is known in Nigeria for his popular featured-song “Orlando” which went viral back in 2013/14.
Wale Waves: Olawale Olakolu, is a multi-genre musician, songwriter and performer under his self-owned label, DubluVe Entertainment.
The ‘City People Award-Winner’ is known as the brain behind the multi-award winning movie soundtrack ‘Araromire (The Figurine)’, a movie by Kunle Afolayan. Wale Waves took the role of the lead singer/vocal director in the project.
Dre-sticks: Odunlami Oluwadamilare, is a music artiste, songwriter, performer and a sound engineer signed to Beverly Records.
Dre who is known for his widely accepted single “5Star”, has also worked with number of top Nigerian artistes to mixing and mastering their song to the top standard.
Creddy F: Patrick Nwanagu, is one of Nigeria’s fast-rising rapper signed to Castro Music Empire.
He is one of the very few young rappers that has featured number of top Nigerian artistes with the likes of; Phyno, Lkt, Timaya, Chidinma, Orezi and Vector.
G-Fresh: Gabriel Afolayan, is no doubt the most sought-after Nollywood actor who delved into music industry and has been doing impressively well since his debut single ‘Kokoro Ife’ which was followed closely with another hit ‘Awelewa’.
Klever Jay: Sholanke Abiodun Joseph better known with his stage name, Klever Jay is no new name to the Nigerian music scene.
The Orange Records signed act is known for his classic hit ‘Koni Koni Luv’ and host of other new releases like; ‘Omo Aiye’, ‘Go Low‘ ‘Baba No Regret’, ‘Owo Eko’, just to mention few.
MUSIC PRODUCER
Puffy Tee: Joseph Babatope Temidayo, known professionally as Puffy Tee is technically one of the greatest African music producers that has served in two different decades and still maintaining his relevancy. He had his first hit track with Olu Maintain in the track “Yahoozee”.
The music producer come singer, who has had countless number of hits in the past years both in Nigeria and Ghana, has blessed number of artistes this year (2016) with hits. He is also known for his production credit on the recently released hit-song, “Eleko” by Davido’s DMW signed act, Mayorkun.
REMARKS
According to Alan Harbiodinho who is the Chief Executive Producer of the project, it is indeed not an easy task – bringing together these music professionals on one track, but we’re glad we crafted a presentable and an international standard song – thanks to every creative head who worked hand-in-hand on the project.
H! Entertainment has also given Lingas Entertainment (South-Africa) artiste, Dr Malinga the authorization to feature the track ‘Fakosi’ on his second studio album titled “Goodwill”.
‘Fakosi’ which is the first track off the ‘IB To The World’ EP, is slated for release on iTunes & all digital platforms worldwide come November 17, and on music blogs shortly after.
Jaytee