The first time I heard Tolu’s tracks, I was instantly hooked: awesome voice, nice smooth tracks with nice accompanying beats. We had the pleasure of asking him some questions and present to you some information he shared with us.

          Born Tolu Adebayo in Brooklyn, New York to Nigerian parents, this prolific singer like most artists realized his passion for singing as a member of the choir at his church. Formerly known as Young Tone, this artist changed his name to Tolu to create his own identity and avoid being one of the many artists named Young Tone.  Though he started his music career back in high school with a band known as TC Connect, he went on to pursue his solo career after the band split up due to undisclosed reasons. With musical influences like Stevie Wonder, Alicia Keys, John Legend, Usher, Akon and the Dream, he describes his music genre has falling into the category of R&B, Pop and Inspirational music. Music has been the only thing that Tolu wanted to engage in and this singer/song writer who also plays the saxophone is ready to take the world by storm. 

On his song “Ayo Music”, Tolu asks when music will give him a chance to finally do what he really wants to do. I personally love “Ayo Music”. Different style and sound!

Listen to “Ayo Music”

          Unlike some modern artists who have become dependent on synthesizers to sound decent, this talented artist does not shy away from singing acapella.   If you attended the cultural night in New York during the 2009 Nigerian Independence Day celebrations, then you definitely witnessed greatness as he introduced his newest hit called “African girls”, a song showing appreciation for the African woman! I absolutely love it!!

 Listen to “African Girls”

            As a singer and songwriter, Tolu has won many accolades including from notable bigwigs from the music industry including having a personal audition for Diddy’s reality show “Star Maker”. He is currently working with producers over at Jive Records ghost writing for a signed artist. Tolu was ranked number 2 on mixmatters.com as the  “Next Hottest Artist” and labeled as “Next in Line” by 24hourhiphop.com with his single being played over 10,000 times.

         Similarly, Tolu’s fan base has experienced exponential growth, with over 250,000 plays on MySpace and hundreds of followers on twitter.  Tolu serves as a president of Bread Winners Entertainment Group which he founded with a close friend of his. Tolu is currently working on a independent album titled “Experience Love” which should be out early 2010. His album was named as such as he feels like a lot people don’t know the true meaning of Love and what it is to love someone. Hence, with this album, he will show his fans and listening audience what love is and what it means to be in love. I don’t know about you but I can’t wait for this album. We definitely might learn a thing or two from it! As to why you should buy his album, he says: “If you want to hear something new. I am the new sound of R&B and what everyone is looking for. If you are tired of hearing the same thing buy my album.” When not singing, writing songs or pursuing his entertainment career, Tolu can be found studying as he’s currently a student  majoring in media studies and also pursing my entertainment career as well. Though based in the States, he hopes to go back to Nigeria and establish himself while hopefully working with some Nigerian artists. He also hopes to one day work with well known international artists such as the likes of Kanye West and Usher.

         Special shout-out and thank you to Femi A. from New York for putting us on to the greatness named Tolu that is about to unfold before our very eyes. His songs definitely appeal to a varying yet broad audience base!

This is definitely one artist to look out for now and in the coming years!

I REP Tolu!

Listen to “Shorty to Go”

 Listen to “Love you” featuring Mike Classic

You can download the featured songs in the FREE Download section of this site!

For more information on Tolu, please visit the following sites:

Twitter: http://twitter.com/ImTolu

Myspace: www.myspace.com/rbsingertone

His blog : www.tolumusic.blogspot.com

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