Tickets will be $25 Day of Show
“There is an immediate sense, when watching Onabule perform, that he is all music. The Rhythm flows through him. A move, gyration, or punctuation, with his hand accentuates every beat. There is a synergy with the music and an awareness of the deep connections with his heritage......” - Peter Daddone, Jazz Review
“Ola’s love songs are way beyond the banal feel of so much contemporary pop-soul, and that’s only the start. Onabule weaves intelligent social commentary into his tunes with a personal intimacy you might expect from folk songwriters, except that it comes off with loose, jazzy phrasing and the tasty backing of jazz players...” - Roger Levesque, Edmonton Journal...
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Tickets will be $25 Day of Show
“There is an immediate sense, when watching Onabule perform, that he is all music. The Rhythm flows through him. A move, gyration, or punctuation, with his hand accentuates every beat. There is a synergy with the music and an awareness of the deep connections with his heritage......” - Peter Daddone, Jazz Review
“Ola’s love songs are way beyond the banal feel of so much contemporary pop-soul, and that’s only the start. Onabule weaves intelligent social commentary into his tunes with a personal intimacy you might expect from folk songwriters, except that it comes off with loose, jazzy phrasing and the tasty backing of jazz players...” - Roger Levesque, Edmonton Journal
Ola Onabule is one of the finest vocalists and contemporary artists of our time. British born, Nigerian raised, Onabule writes music exempt from cliche and reminiscent of the great songwriters of the 60’s and 70’s. His music crosses boundaries uniting Jazz, Soul and World Music influences to form a unique yet highly identifiable style.
As a performer, Ola has gained worldwide critical acclaim as the consummate artist. With emotional intensity and sophisticated theatricality, he utilizes the whole stage, engaging the audience, displaying vocal virtuosity interspersed with poignant storytelling. Both industry and audiences have come to realize that no specific language is needed to connect with this amazing artist, the music says it all. Following up on his recent UK chart success with the re-mix of Soul Town, Ola Onabule’s new album “It’s The Peace That Deafens” is his 8th studio album and marks a departure from his previous two releases featuring a largely acoustic set uniting Jazz, Soul and World Music influences. The Album contains 12 evocative songs about identity, reconciliation and nostalgia. Words, melodies and rhythms walk a delicate tightrope of paradoxes, born of both a childhood and adulthood immersed in two disparate cultures, on two different continents and at two different times. Ola stated recently that “It’s The Peace That Deafens” is as much a work of exploration as it is a declaration.
With the majority of his previously albums released independently on his own label “Rugged Ram Records”, Ola took the next step by signing with Dot Time Records, a Jazz and World music label based in the USA and Europe. “It’s The Peace That Deafens” will be released by Dot Time Records worldwide in September 2015. In addition, the quality of Ola’s artistry has attracted endorsements from the illustrious Neumann Microphones of Berlin and ACS in-ear monitors.
Ola’s emotionally charged live performances have been seen on the most prestigious festival stages, concert halls and jazz clubs world wide including the main stage of the Montreal Jazz Festival, Vancouver International Jazz Festival, Istanbul Jazz Festival, Edmonton and Victoria
Jazz Festival. Ola has performed in the United Kingdom, USA, Germany, Austria, Italy, Sweden, Norway, Switzerland, Finland, Russia, Mexico, Estonia, Lithuania, Latvia and Romania.
The breadth of Ola’s music has led to featured appearances with Europe’s finest Big Bands and Orchestras including the Grammy Award winning WDR Big Band of Cologne as well as the Danish Radio Big Band, Babelsberg Film Orchestra, SWR Radio Big Band of Stuttgart, HR Big Band of Frankfurt and The Symphonic Orchestra of San Luis Potosi, Mexico. Ola looks forward to taking It’s The Peace That Deafens to audiences around the world.
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