Cobhams Emmanuel: The Visually Impaired Nigerian Celebrated Musician
Cobhams Emmanuel Asuquo is a visually impaired Nigerian celebrated musician, music producer and songwriter.
Cobhams was born on the 6th of January, 1981 in Jos, Plateau, Northern Nigeria although he is originally from Calabar, Cross River in South-Southern Nigeria.
He is of Efik tribe which is among the generally termed MINORITY section of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.
In 2005, Asuquo was signed on with Sony ATV London as a songwriter. After working as Head of Audio Productions at a local label, Questionmark Entertainment, he set up his own recording facility in 2006. He is the former CEO/Head of Productions of CAMP (Cobhams Asuquo Music Productions), which he co-managed with Bez Idakula and Stan Iyke. He was responsible for A?a's highly acclaimed international album ASA and has been mentioned on many artists' sleeve credits as producer and writer. He is now the Founder/CEO of Vintage Grey Media.
Cobhams majors in Gospel, Rnb, Pop and Afrobeat genres of music.
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On the blockbuster ASA album, Cobhams also wrote and co-wrote several songs on the album including the singles, Fire on the Mountain and Jailer. He has worked with numerous musicians both local (Nigeria) and International. From the early 2000s he produced hits, including ‘Maintain in India,’ and ‘Catch cold’ by Maintain; ‘Ego’- Djinne ; ‘In the music’, ‘If you ask me’ by Omawumi to recently released 2017 butterflies also by Omawumi. His stable of artistes include : Asa, Banky W, Omawumi, Eldee, Sasha, Dare Art-Alade, Waje, Timi Dakolo, Djinne, Faze, Seyi Shay, Korede Bello, Tiwa Savage, Ego, Yemi Alade, Bez, Omolara, Chidinma Ekile, Shola Allyson, Lara George, Ego, Silver Saddih, Flavour, Mo'Chedda, Praiz, Simi, Rooftop MC's and so many others. Cobhams became an MTN Nigeria ambassador for its corporate elite customers in 2015.
On the first of January 2015, Cobhams released his first music video for Ordinary People. He has also officially released 5 other singles – Do the Right Thing featuring Bez (2015), Christmas song Star of Wonder (2015), Boosit ft. Falz (2016), The Other Room ft. Ugovinna (2016) and Adore ft. Lauretta Cookey and Fome Peters (2016).
Cobhams, alongside African musicians such as Dbanj, Omawumi, Femi Kuti and Somi, visited the white house to raise awareness on agriculture in Nigeria, through Bono’s global humanitarian group, ‘ONE Campaign’.
He was also invited to participate in the three-day US-Africa summit. Cobhams was invited by the ONE campaign to produce the anthem for the Poverty is Sexist’ campaign titled Strong Girl. He teamed up with various African female artists such as: Waje (Nigeria), Victoria Kimani (Kenya), Vanessa Mdee (Tanzania), Arielle T (Gabon), Gabriela (Mozambique), Yemi Alade (Nigeria), Selmor Mtukudzi (Zimbabwe), Judith Sephuma (South Africa), new talents Blessing Nwafor (South Africa) and the video star Omotola Jolade- Ekehinde (Nigeria).
On December 2, 2010, Cobhams Emmanuel Asuquo married Ojuolape Veronica Olukanni. They have two sons together and they are still happily married.
