Admin l Tuesday, October 17, 2017
LAGOS, Nigeria – As Nigerians gear up for the last quarter of the year, Afro Dancehall artiste Ketchup has released new tune titled ‘Olingo’.
Off his anticipated album “The First Coming”, Olingo is a blend of afrobeat and dancehall sounds with sweet melodies from the Caribbean and a mix of African Pidgin.
Produced by Orbeat, Olingo isn’t hard to decipher; in the intro, he sings “She said she get boyfriend from London town, he no give am the thing so she leave him in a yard, now she don turn to side chick again”. The girl in question just wants to have a good time and forget her relationship troubles.
On the release of the song, Ketchup said “some people might think of Olingo on a deeper level because they don’t understand the lyrics or the song” however,”Olingo means different things to different people”. In South Africa, Olingo connotes ‘Temptation’ but in Igbo language, it means ‘to jolly and have a good time’.
It’s easy to tell that Ketchup wants to keep his fans in a party mood with this track. So just OLINGO.
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ABOUT KETCHUP
Ketchup is a Nigerian Afro Dancehall recording artiste currently signed to 606 Music. Born Onyido Nkemjika, he drew his earliest inspiration from Ebenezer Obey, Sir Sina Peters, Bob Marley and a host of others.
He had his secondary education at St Leos School, Federal Government College Ijanikan. He spent a few years at Obafemi Awolowo University Ife then he eventually furthered his education at Atlantic College, KL Malaysia where he studied Mass Communications.
He wrote his first song in 2010 titled ‘Nuvo’ featuring U.K Disc Jockey DJ Jam Jam. The song earned him the Prestigious Malaysian AEA awards that year and received rave views. In 2012, he relocated to Nigeria and released ‘On the beat’ featuring Rayce. During this time, he decided to take his music to a different direction then the released ‘Show Me Yuh Rozay’. The song gained massive airplay on radio and clubs nationwide. It rose to the top as the number one song in the country on Cool FM top ten songs, MTN top ten jams as well as Blackberry top ten songs on Beat 99.9 FM.
In March 2013, Ketchup released his official video for ‘Show Me Yuh Rozay’, a move that made him the new dancehall King in town. Shot by Square Ball, it stayed on the music charts for months. In June, he released two more singles ‘Pass As You GO’ and ‘Cocoa Banana’ featuring Banky W, then later released the remix of his hit song ‘Show Me Yur Rozay’ featuring Olamide and Phyno and ‘Holy Mic’.
Following the success of his song Holy Mic, Ketchup went on to release ‘Mama’; a song produced by Jaypaulbeatz. The Dancehall King followed up with the release of two songs and videos, ’Enjoy Yourself’ and ‘Pam Pam’. Produced by Jfem and Orbeat respectively, the videos were shot in South Africa under the 606 Music imprint. In 2015, he released Baby Paulina featuring South Africa’s powerhouse Uhuru.
The success of these singles and his reputation as an energetic performer earned him various awards including, Best Stage Performance AEA Awards Malaysia, Video of the year AEA Awards Malaysia, Artist of the year AEA Awards Malaysia, Artist of the year, Mayhem in May (MIM) Nigeria, Artist of the year Green Awards Nigeria, Club Hottest Music Artist (Nigeria) Award Club Flames Merit Awards, and Next Rated Artist of the Year Peach Achievers Award.
