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DJ Oojah is a professional UK-based Ghanaian
disc jocker who plays reggae, dancehall, AfroBeats an other genres mostly in
the UK and sometimes in Ghana when he visits home. He was christened as Tettey Odonkor but he
assumed Oojah for a branding purpose..
Growing up in Alajo [Accra, GHANA] as a young chap, turntablism was more like a
grand calling for the young Tettey than just a raw hobby. He clung to it with
the firm determination to make it his side career as a radio rep or freelance
dj.
During his high school days at Aggrey memorial secondary [Cape Coast, Ghana], Oojah
still had the keen aspiration to be a dj and a radio presenter after school, but
he would then have to be on a self-taught journey to achieve his disc joking
dream as he never had a ready mentor to teach him the rudiments of the art. It
took him several weeks of gradual patient study, going through a series of no-teacher
lessons to master the basics of professional disc-jocking.
In a retro scope as to when his craft-mastering really took off and how the
feeling of finally realizing his key entertainment dream was like, Oojah would
say “It is always a sharp recalling of a period of an amateur dj trying his raw
skills at song selection and mixing when he only knew a few professional tricks,
but I now see a successful me that made it from playing to myself only at home to
playing to a commercial audience in a business setting”. “This happy transition
is evident that my aspiration to be a professional dj has paid off, so I never
regret chasing the dream”. Yeah, the dj’s success didn’t stick at home, today
he earns deals to play in the clubs, at beaches and other event grounds that
need a musical treat from a professional dj. Doing it big in England amidst
other selectors from Jamaica and other parts of the world, Oojah has grown from
a ground surface brand from to a competitive brand.
No other thing than burning passion sprung
Oojah into disc-jocking. He easily gravitates to music, thus it was passion that
led him into the real world spinosphere.
Oojah selects multiple genres, but reggae is his prime forte. He’s been hired
to warm birthday parties and other gigs. He currently plays on JamRadio. With
him on the JamRadio’s employ are ten other DJs and a couple of presenters.
Being a reggae-dancehall selector, it’s a cultural normality of Oojah to belong
to a certain sound camp or even own a sound for sound clash purposes as is done
Jamaican and Europe, but at this writing, Oojah is neither yet fraternized to
any sound camp nor established his own sound system, but he has professed his
readiness to respond to sound clash calls anytime now for fun or prize.
Dipping into the Oojah dub box, one finds just a few dubplates, but the dj is
still connecting to get more dubplates and spiteful drops to stay ever-fit for
any future sound clash.
Responding to the recent market beating AfroBeats is giving dancehall, Oojah also
confirms, aside mass observation, that AfroBeats is taking the main spot these
days in Europe and America……but he is confident both genres will remain equally
relevant if they continue to share certain rhythm similarities despite their
individual unique elements. Oojah testifies that it is dancehall and AfroBeats tunes
that light up the clubs the wild way these days.
Like every other busy DJ, Oojah has mixes
too and his mixing frequency is more prolific as he makes a new mix each time
he has a virtual session on JamRadio. All Oojah mixes are officially collected via
@audiomack.com/oojah.
Somehow bizarre but so true, Oojah stands out as a unique dj among other dj’s through
self-expression by taking each session as a serious work and playing in a
certain pattern he deems identifiable with his brand.
Answering the question “what's your advice for the artistes that want to do
commercial music”?, Oojah took a controversial stance, saying “being commercial
is like doing the kinda music many people can relate to, in other words using good
lyrics”. He made it sound like non-commercial music is not of good lyrics, but
he is not to be misunderstood because most commercial artistes also give the
same reply that their songs are of a commercial worth because they come in good
lyrics.
DJ Oojah shares a memory of his worst session as when he first played AfroBeats
tunes to a non-Afro audience that was not privy to the grove of the genre.
MEDIA CONTACTS
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