Chris Obehi
About me
Palermo, Italy
My name is Chris Obehi, I’m 25 and I am a Nigerian artist who lives in Italy since 8 years. I am a multi-instrumentalist: when I was in Nigeria, I learnt how to play bass guitar, piano, drums and percussions. It was just when I came to Italy that I taught myself to play the guitar, I started singing and composing my own songs. Thanks to Francesco Riotta, singer and bandleader of “Famiglia del Sud”, I discover the music of Rosa Balistreri, a Sicilian traditional folk singer and I start making cover of her songs. Singing her songs make me feel the emotion of Sicily, an island that has become my second home. Due to a video made by Palermo Festival (on you tube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yWvwMhApKv4) I became well known in Sicily and beyond for my Rosa Balistreri cover and thanks to this I met my producer Fabio Rizzo of the label 800A Record. On 30th March 2020 I released my first album Obehi. My songs are mostly inspired by my own life experiences and current events.
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Chris Obehi
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Project Music
HUMAN INTELLIGENCE
The song features 3 passionate musicians from French-Italian, Nigerian and Italian identities and is sung in English, Italian, French and Nigerian Pidgin. In the era of Artificial Intelligence (AI), this song is a call to bring back humanity, compassion, and peace to this World. As we are still not learning from the past, forgetting what many humans have done for us, Human Intelligence, ("HI"), urges to be back (chorus recites « say HI again ») ! The song underlines the importance of emotions and empathy as fundamentals of social progress.
- Pop
- World
- Background vocals
- Mezzo-soprano
- Onomatopoeia
- Singer
- Singer-songwriter
- Fingerboard synthesizer
- Piano
- Drum machine
- Drum set
- Duff
- Frame drum
- France
- Italy
- Niger
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