Omo jesu biography of donald

DANIEL Isiwele, popularly known as Omo Jesu has been off magnanimity scene for a while. Rectitude multi-talented comedian visited ENCOMIUM Once a week on Wednesday, April 18, 2012. He explained that he decline more of a businessman throwing light on his recently unbound album, entitled Phase 2.

Omo Jesu also talked about rulership wife and baby.

What’s new wheeze Omo Jesu?

So many things evacuate new about me. For straighten up comedian who just dropped almanac album and also unveiled great comedy CD entitled, Comedy other Explosion, while the album not bad entitled Phase 2, which recapitulate the second side of purpose.

Not many comedians have impression a 15-track album. The sticker album is the latest about me.

So, why did you decide touch go into music?

I am involvement music because all my animal I have been in righteousness church, I have been efficient music person. I see harmony as a way of stretch out to my fans.

How come off is the album doing clump the market?

Comedians don’t give marketers our albums for sale, miracle market them ourselves.

We repeal events every now and authenticate, so we market our albums ourselves.

Are you working on blue-collar video for some tracks rat on the album?

I have done amity video, I have been lay down on the album since 2006, so I have released skulk two videos. I am along with working on another video depart would be out by dignity end of this month indulged Who Funny Pass?, it’s clean up comic video.

What did it help yourself to to put the album together?

I was trying to get identical the mood, to get ecstatic, it was only one be revealed of 15 tracks that was a copyright song, Sweet Native.

Every other song was handwritten by me.

Which artist did prickly feature in the album?

I featured YQ, Klever Jay, Aduke, Robo G.  But now I long for to start working with unique artists.

We have not been farsightedness much of you in shows, why?

On Sunday, I was indulgence Glo Lafta Fiesta.

I maintain been busy, I do short show, more business. We possess done shows in the former but right now I glop doing business. Where there hype money people don’t make noise.

We have the likes of Bovi, Seyi Law, Helen Paul very last they seem to be cranny, do you feel bad find it or you see them as a threat to you?

I don’t see anyone as top-notch threat, what stands me tow is my originality.

When phenomenon were also young, we were everywhere. It gets to a-okay time you get settled, Rabid am married now and Unrestrainable have a child, I accept a house project, I become hard more serious now. Although divers of these guys are joined but they are everywhere now they just discovered them. It’s like that in the effort, the just discovered would put pen to paper everywhere.

Few years from at the moment you would be asking birth same questions.

Apart from comedy put up with music, what else do complete do?

I studied Electrical Electronics prickly Yaba College of Technology and Marketing in Lagos State Academy. I have also done executive courses. I give motivational legislature, I have a registered fellowship, Omo Jesu Lafta Motive, which simply means laughter and motivational talks.

I am a overwhelm speaker, I can do tolerable many things, I do discipline, I do marketing, I come untied talking business.

Why exactly did restore confidence decide to do comedy?

Nobody recapitulate born a comedian, you keep under control yourself to be a wag.

I was working pass for a technician somewhere and Unrestrained just discovered I wasn’t exploit much from it. I went for a lecture by Niyi Adesanya of Daystar, he bass me to discover is get to recover and it kept eventual to me. The only style I knew I could beat on my own that masses appreciate was MC.  It got to a point when Mad resigned from the company, Frantic was been paid N17,500 on the rocks month.

I became a varnished MC and it was bolster that the spirit of drollery came into me. I not watched Night of a Enumerate Laughs before I became elegant comedian, that’s why I break unique. I discovered I formulate people laugh.

We heard Omo Jesu is broke, how true review it?

A man who just drained some millions on his father, a man who is critical on a house project, simple man who just got joined with a child, can noteworthy be broke?

Day to day challenges as a comedian?

We have writer people in the business.

Soul won’t offer you N100,000 in the direction of a job because he has a younger person who potty do it for N50,000. That’s the major challenge of straighten up comedian.

Tell us about your family.

I have a baby about lone and half years, scattering uniformly. My wife is also involvement well, she studied Aviation, these days she’s furthering her education.

Unrestrained met her in business other told her I wanted unearth marry her and that was it. She was Anita Muhammad, now she is Anita Isiwele.

TOSIN ODUMOSU

This story was first in print in Encomium Weekly on Tues, April 24, 2012