{"id":431,"date":"2021-02-06T14:55:28","date_gmt":"2021-02-06T14:55:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/entertainment\/?p=431"},"modified":"2021-02-06T14:55:28","modified_gmt":"2021-02-06T14:55:28","slug":"brymos-many-controversies-music-career-arty-songs-and-striking-details","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/entertainment\/2021\/02\/06\/brymos-many-controversies-music-career-arty-songs-and-striking-details\/","title":{"rendered":"Brymo\u2019s Many Controversies, Music Career, Arty Songs And Striking Details"},"content":{"rendered":"
Self-crowned inventor of \u2018Alternative Music\u2019 in Nigeria, Brymo is one of the most controversial, yet artistic musicians in the West-African country. His music is a mixture of fuji, R&B, pop and rock.<\/p>\n
Early Life<\/strong><\/h2>\n
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Olawale Ashimi also Olawale Olofo\u2019ro is popularly known as Brymo, he is a Nigerian singer, songwriter and composer. He was born on May 9, 1986 in Okokomaiko, Ojo, Lagos State, to an Awori carpenter father and an Egun petty trader mother. He is the only child of his parents.<\/p>\n
Brymo attended his primary education at Aganju Aka Primary School between 1990 and 1997. Between 1997 and 2003, he attended Ajangbadi High School, a local public secondary school. He gained admission into Lagos State University to study zoology but had to drop out due to financial constraints.<\/p>\n
Music Career<\/strong><\/h2>\nBrymo performing<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
In 1999, when he was 14, Brymo wrote his first song titled \u2018Future\u2019. Pleased with his results, the young Olawale was inspired to pursue a career in music. In 2002, Brymo and a few of his friends formed a group called The Aliens.<\/p>\n
Between 2004 and 2005, the group started having problems and eventually disbanded in 2005. Brymo was enthused to create music after listening to his mother sing along to numerous fuji songs.<\/p>\n
Brymo released his debut studio album \u2018Brymstone\u2019 in 2007, a R&B influenced by the works of R. Kelly and the Backstreet Boys. He sold more than 2,000 copies of the album within six months of its release.\u00a0 Management problems prevented him from getting a marketing deal for the album after he secured a one-million naira offer that did not work out because of technical issues.<\/p>\n
In 2010, Brymo received a call from Denrele Edun, whom he met few years earlier. Edun asked him if he knew M.I and told him that the rapper was interested in having a discussion with him. Later that year, Brymo got signed to Chocolate City after sitting down with M.I. prior to his record deal with Chocolate City, he collaborated with Jesse Jagz on the song \u201cLove You\u201d which appeared on the rapper\u2019s debut studio album, Jag of All Tradez (2011).<\/p>\n
Brymo was featured on the hit single “Oleku”, which was released as the lead single from Ice Prince’s debut studio album \u2018Everybody Loves Ice Prince\u2019 (2011). The track gave Brymo major exposure in the industry. He sai the chorus of the song which he rendered came from the passion and energy around him, and from hunger and desperation.<\/p>\n
In 2012, Brymo dropped his second album \u2018TheSonOfaKapenta\u2019. The singer said his father’s carpentry profession inspired the album’s title and described \u2018TheSonOfaKapenta\u2019 as a summary of his life with each song reflecting his energy.<\/p>\n
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