OB Nelson

Afro-jazz singer from Lagos, and the voice of The Serenade Band.

You’re not with the music.You’re in the music.
OB Nelson, on LXP Morning Flight

Jacob Dynasty presents

Jazz &Wine

To Be Loved is Jazz

Afro-jazz, fine wine and a live band. The night OB has dreamed of since 2012, staged in Lekki.

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Benin
Born in Benin, Nigeria
He grows up far from any jazz scene. Nobody around him plays it, and nobody expects him to sing it.
Around 2007
The seventh chord
Fresh out of secondary school, he joins his church’s music department and takes the keyboard. He lingers on seventh chords long after the service ends, until a sound he can’t yet name starts to form.
OB Jazz
A nickname before a genre
Friends start calling him OB Jazz. Only then does he go looking for the jazz greats, and he finds he already sounds like them. The instinct came first.
2012
A dream about one night
He imagines a jazz concert in Lagos that feels like one in New York or New Orleans, where every note takes you home and every sip stirs a memory.