Olatunji soca artist wiki

Olatunji

Caribbean artist coming directly from Port of Spain, Trinidad & Tobago.

Olatunji Yearwood, better known by his mononym Olatunji, is a Trinidadian soca artist. He is 34 years old and the son of composer Edward Yearwood and Mairoon Ali, who was a well-known actress and comedian in Trinidad. He’s also pretty well known back home, having won a number of local talent shows while he was still a teenager, before being crowned winner of Trinidad’s Soca Groovy Monarch/International Soca Monarch in 2015 where he performed the track ”Ola”. Olatunji went on to release an album, Awakening, in 2016. In September 2018, Yearwood was featured as a contestant on The X Factor UK (Series 15).

Trinidadian musician

Musical artist

Olatunji Yearwood (born September 3, 1985), better known by his mononym Olatunji, is a Trinidadian soca artist.

Career

Yearwood was born in Trinidad to Edward Yearwood, a well-known composer and mother Mairoon Ali, a Trinidadian actress, radio personality and teacher. He established himself as a Soca talent early on when he entered and won multiple talent shows while still in his teens, including the national Junior Calypso Monarch competition.^[1] His shot to global fame when he won Trinidad's famous Soca Groovy Monarch/International Soca Monarch in 2015, performing his blockbuster single "Ola."^[2] He is the last International Groovy Soca Monarch champion, as the competition's format was changed in 2016 to exclude that category.

Yearwood was featured in The Fader Magazine as the face of Afrosoca music, an emerging genre that fuses Soca and Afrobeats.^[3] He sees the release of his debut international album 'Awakening' on July 1, 2016, from FOX FUSE - the world's largest label for soca music. ^[4]

In September 2018, Yearwood was featured as a contestant on The X Factor UK (Series 15). During his audition, a technical glitch resulted in the wrong backing track initi

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