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    Odeal Biography

    Odeal moved around a lot as a child, spending time in Germany, Spain, Nigeria, and his
    native U.K. by the time he was a young teenager. He credits his genre-surfing musical
    style to this nomadic life and uses his ability to cross cultures when he fuses afrobeats with
    rich and silky R&B vocals. Still only 20, Odeal arrived at this sound after returning to
    London from a period studying in Nigeria and heard the distinctly U.K. take on the
    afrobeats sound coming to the fore at parties across the capital via peers like NSG and J
    Hus. “I was deeping that this is completely different to what I was hearing in Nigeria,”
    Odeal says looking back. “I thought, ‘I can work with this.’”

    It was that period spent at boarding school in Nigeria where Odeal first cut his teeth as a
    budding artist and producer. His jump off point was James Brown but also grew to factor in
    local heroes Fela Kuti, Burna Boy, and Wizkid.

    Arriving back in London in 2017, Odeal began blending all of these influences and made
    big sacrifices to help his musical dreams come true, selling his beloved camera and Beats
    headphones to invest in a new laptop he could make music on. Eventually he got enough
    material together to create an EP, Pragma. “I loved the whole process of making that
    project because it was just me,” he says of the independent release, which arrived in 2018.
    “I can release music and I don't need to depend on anyone else.”

    A summer of unrest and protests inspired by the 2020 killing of George Floyd made their
    way into Odeal’s music, too. “More Life,” released around the same time as Black Lives
    Matter marches began in the U.S. and spread globally, is Odeal taking inspiration from a
    series of personal losses and wider injustices. “We were shook,” he says. “So many
    people were passing. I would play back voice notes on Snapchat, of friends I lost talking to
    me about my music. It was mad emotional for me. My people need to live longer. No one's
    getting to really see their dreams and it just doesn’t make sense to me.”

    Odeal has shown that he was born to hustle, always moving forward. It’s why, when he
    says his ambition in life is to lead the way for his peers, you don't doubt his ability to pull off
    such a feat. “I want to be the voice that allows other people’s music in the UK to be heard
    internationally,” he says. “I want to open that door so someone from ends can do this and
    go on to do amazing things.”

    Having soaked in a global culture and brought it back to his roots in London, Odeal has
    proven adept at finessing any situation and making moves toward the next level. He’s a
    DIY artist with A-list ambitions that blurs the lines between musical forms with ease. No
    matter where he lands, Odeal always comes out on top.

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