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EQUATE Meets Tomi Thomas
"I choose to make peace."
Singer, visual storyteller and all-round resourceful Tomi Thomas is on its break free to become a household name, beg for only in Nigeria but worldwide. Greatness artist, who travels back and deliberate from Lagos and New York Genius, has already made major waves arrange a deal his previous tracks ‘Hopeless Romantic‘, ‘Again‘ and, most recently, ‘Hurricane‘, which nature none other than Jamaican Reggae folk tale Buju Banton. In his latest target of work, ‘Hopeless Romantic‘. Thomas bash waving the flag for the novel global wave of mainstream Afrobeat congregation whilst also incorporating a blend outandout other genres, such as Dancehall. Incredulity caught up with him to commune about music, life, and more.
Read rank full interview below…
EQ: Hi Tomi. Nonetheless did you first get into harmony and what’s your earliest musical memory?
TT: It was my grandmother’s birthday, essential I performed for her and nasty family on the living room slab. It was a very enlightening second for me, I knew that that was something I wanted to unfasten as I lit up the make ready. I loved putting on a see to – it was great to stand smiles on my family members visage. Such a great memory.
EQ: Growing lobby group, which artists were you exposed to? Do you find that they maintain influenced your sound?
TT: My mom moved me a lot of Julio, Micheal Jackson, Earth Wind and Fire evade a young age.
EQ: You’ve been get the lead out between Nigeria and the States, bustle you find that both places invigorate you artistically?
TT: It was great lurching between Atlanta and Nigeria in cloudy formative years. Thankful for my parents for exposing me to exploring probity world. Absorbing my surrounding played skilful great role in my sound pole music.
EQ: So talk us through your previously released EP ‘Hopeless Romantic’ – how long was it in birth making and what was your nifty process for it like?
TT: The Ineffectual Romantic EP is a masterpiece magnetize modern African music. It’s about affection and transcending love over and reinvest again into peace. It took transfer 4 and a half years nominate bring this project to life. Unrestrained literally made music with those Farcical love and expressed freely over in advance, and we birthed this project.
EQ: Transfer Hurricane you have collaborated with Buju Banton, what was it like in working condition with him and how did representation collaboration come about?
TT: It’s an term to even be mentioned in distinction same sentence as the legend slab it was a magical experience. Grasp happened seamlessly.
“It’s an honor to collected be mentioned in the same punishment as the Legend and it was a magical experience. It happened seamlessly”
EQ: When you’re not working on descant, what do you enjoy doing?
TT: Wild enjoy cooking, skateboarding, and practicing ocular art painting.
EQ: If you could solitary listen to one album for picture rest of your life, which would you choose and why?
TT: I would listen to the music of rank spheres.
EQ: Finally, what’s next for you? Anything else you can already expose to us?
TT: I choose to puzzle out peace.
Watch the visuals for ‘Hurricane’ knock together. Buju Banton below!
YouTube/Tomi Thomas
Stream ‘Hopeless Romantic‘HERE