Rema just keeps getting better with his musical craft and with his Aura, we have decided he is our darling of the week.
Divine Ikubor with his stage name Rema, was born into a Christian family in Benin City. He grew up singing and rapping while he was in secondary school. He attended his primary and secondary school education at Ighile Group of Schools, Edo State.
He lost his father and elder brother but still takes good care of his mother.
Rema catwalk for UK apparel Tokyo games at Lagos Fashion Week in 2019. He started his music career in churches. In 2018, Rema posted a viral freestyle on Instagram to D'Prince's track "Gucci Gang". The post caught the attention of D'Prince who flew him to Lagos to offer a record deal to the young talent. Rema signed a record deal with D'Prince's Jonzing World, a subsidiary of Mavin Records owned by record producer Don Jazzy, in 2019.
He went on to release his self-titled debut EP "Rema" in 2019, which peaked at number 1 on Apple Music Nigeria. On 21 May 2019, Jonzing World, and Mavins released the music video of "Dumebi", a major breakout song from his self-titled EP, featuring a cameo appearance from Diana Eneje.
Later that summer, In 2019, one of his other most popular songs from the EP gained more popularity when it was placed on former president of the United States of America, Barack Obama's summer playlist.
In May 2021, Rema announced he will be calling his sound "Afrorave", a subgenre of Afrobeats with influences of Arabian and Indian music which has led to him having one of the strongest fanbase in the country known as Ravers.
In September 2021, Rema was unveiled as a brand ambassador for the popular soft drink Pepsi alongside his label mate Ayra Starr.
On 7 September 2022, Rema received on stage an award during his London concert as his songs achieved 1 billon streamings worldwide. He released his debut album Rave & Roses on 25 March 2022. The album includes 16 tracks and features from 6lack, Chris Brown, AJ Tracey, and Yseult. The album charted 10 songs on the US Billboard Afrobeats Chart following its debut week.
His single "Calm Down", including a sample from fellow Nigerian artist Crayon's track "So Fine", then began charting five months after its official release.
On August 26, 2022, he released a remix of his song "Calm Down" with Selena Gomez which debuted at number 91 on Billboard Hot 100.
On 19 October 2019, Rema won Next Rated and was nominated for Viewer's Choice at the 13th edition of The Headies. On 12 January 2020, he received the Soundcity MVP Awards for best new artist. On 15 June 2020, Rema was nominated as Best Viewers Choice: International Act on the 2020 BET Awards. He was nominated on the awards alongside Burna Boy and Wizkid, they were the only Nigerian Artistes nominated for the awards edition of 2020. Rema's track Woman reached number fifteen on World Digital Song Sales.
Rema is a supporter of football club Manchester United F.C. He also made it known to Twitter that he has gained admission to the university of Lagos to fulfil his mothers dream to get a degree.
On 28 September 2020, Rema tweeted accusations against the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) over the death of his father Justice Ikubor, who was a former chieftain of the party.
In September 2020, Rema's songs were included in the FIFA 21 soundtracks.
Rema has made Nigeria proud and is a young man that the Nigerian and African youths need to learn from. We wish him the very best.
Source: Wikipedia
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