The Truth About The LifeOf OJB Jezreel ‘Jiggaman’
Babatunde Okungbowa a.k.a OJB
Jezreel was born on July 4th, 1966 in Lagos to Chief Anthony Okungbowa&
Isabella AbiodunOkungbowa (Nee Pinheiro) in a matrimony that produced 5
others. He was the last child of his mum.
He attended Yewande Memorial Primary School & Mainland Preparatory
Elementary School between 1972 - 1977.
He graduated from Federal Government College, Ijanikin in 1986 where he
organized a music concert while he was a student of the school.
He furthered his education at Lagos College of Education and Liter-way
College, Holland, Year 1987-1990. However, in true pursuit of his passion and a
real career, he decided to follow his path in life as an artiste/music producer.
For the prolific producer, music started back in 1986. The artiste
started making beats in back room studios, first in his Surulere neighbourhood
and later in other parts of the city.
OJB Jezreel was a seasoned producer and a great musician. Over the
years, he has produced some of the greatest hit albums and singles in the
history of R&B hip-hop music in the entertainment scene in Africa.
He worked with 2face Idibia which is the greatest thing that came out of
Africa to the world. OJB Jezreel single handedly produced 'Face 2 Face', the album that contained tracks like African
Queen that took 2face to another level.
He has worked with Bennie Man, a Jamaican American based musician.
He produced artistes like RuggedMan re-establishing rap music to gain its ground
in Nigeria. He also produced Jazzman Olofin, Weird MC, Paul IkDairo, Daddy
Showkey, Sir Shina
Peters, Olu
Maintain.
OJB also produced albums and songs for Faze, Iyanya, D'banj, Durella, Wizkid, YemiAladeetc to
mention a few.
He made so much impact in the music industry thereby making Nigeria the
cradle of entertainment in Africa also emerging a spotlight in Africa, he
remains the greatest producer ever to emerge from the continent Africa.
As a musician he is one of the greatest vocalists and by virtue of years
of experience as a producer he has been able to impact his gathered knowledge
into his style of music thereby making him Mr. versatile in his last album ‘No
Drama’ with great hit songs like ‘Searching’ and ‘Pretete’ which created so
much impact that it sold close to one million copies in less than 4 weeks
without the push and promotion of a record label. If you call OJB Mr.
versatile, he is.
The respected music producer and singer battled with Kidney problems
since 2013. He was consequently flown to India for a transplant in 2013.
With his kidney experience, he decided to set up a Foundation, ‘OJB
Foundation’ to help people with kidney problems in appreciation to God for
saving his life.
However, his kidney transplant failed again a week before his demise and
OJB passed on.
He is survived by his wives, Mabel BabatundeOkungbowa, June Okungbowa,
andKoredeOkungbowa with eight children.
Signed
Iliyas Abimbola Ahmed
Management
31 Nation
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