Solo Soul Jazz Singer in London
Ola is a solo Soul Jazz singer whose purpose is to serve people into a greater experience of what he calls the abundant life through Joy. Blending principles from his Psychology degree with experience as a lead singer in gospel and afrobeat circles, Ola draws from music as far as Ella Fitzgerald and Elvis to Bon Jovi and The Temptations to create unforgettable experiences.
He also has a penchant for honest conversations that seem to be ludicriously funny (at his expense) even though he claims it was never on purpose. He is an apt communicator and his music has often been described as ‘refreshing’, ‘exotic’ and ‘different’ from what you would usually hear on the radio.
Repertoire List
Soul/classics
Let’s stay together
Me and Mrs Jones
My girl
Sexual healing
Lionel Richie (All nite long, Do it to me, You are)
Tennesse Whiskey
Cupid
To love somebody
Love is gonna getcha (Patti Austin)
I wish, its not unusual (tom jones)
Sledgehammer (Peter Gabriel)
Its my life
Livin on a prayer
Purely Dance
Disco inferno
Uptown funk, that’s what I like (Bruno Mars)
Billie Jean
Swalla
Happy
I feel good
Papas got a brand new bag
Aint that a lot of love
I wanna be with you everywhere
I wanna be ur lover
Jazzy-like (Ola surprises the audience by singing a Jazzy version of well known pop songs)
It wasn’t me’
Holtline Bling
Heartbreak hotel
Freak me
Don’t rain on my parade
Slow jams
Somebody to love
Superstar
Ribbon in the sky
Who do I turn to
When a woman loves
Purple Rain
The book of love
Hello its me
Gotta have friends
blue bayou,
Ballads and Jazz Standards
Feeling good
You go to my head
Fever
My baby cares for me
Sentimental reasons
I who have nothing
That Sunday
That summer
Luck be a lady
My way
Make someone happy
Body and soul
Unforgettable
Copacabanna
True colors
It’s a man’s world
I want you
Thou swell
Moody’s mood for love
Music theater
I’m singing in the rain,
I’ll cover u (reprise from Rent)
music of the nite
All I ask of you (phantom of the opera)
On the street where you live
Somewhre over the rainbow
Ding Dong the witch is dead (glee version)
Contemporary
Ed sheeran’s ‘don’t’
Nick Jonas ‘Jealous’
Somebody to love me (mark ronson)
Attention (Charlie Puth)
Chained to the rhythm (Katy perry)
Love never felt so good (micheal J)
Chandelier
Jason Derulo’s swalla and try me
Sing a long’s/Ice breakers or songs that I have a joke about with the audience (Audience participation)
Sunny days (theme song from sesame street)
Blurred lines (where I teach ladies how to twerk)….depends on the crowd,
My love is your love (Whitney)
Cheap thrills (Sia)
Mama look a boo boo (harry Belafonte)
Everybody needs somebody (blues brothers)
Mama said knock u out ( I make fun of the inability to hear what rappers are saying and encourage everyone to join me rapping as a hip hop star)
It dosent matter (wyclef jean and the rock)
Shoop (Salt n pepper)
I got you babe (I perform it with an audience member…could be a man or woman…the more incongruous – the better!)
MFL428
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