Tuesday 31 March 2015

COBHAMS, THE DREAM. INSPIRED.

COBHAMS, THE DREAM. INSPIRED

Cobhams Emanuel Asuquo is a song writer/music producer. He was born blind. Has professional training as a lawyer, but later branched into
lifelong desire he had though un-admittedly but silently nursing a wide spectrum of genres based on his careful understudy
traditional music greats as Tchaikovsky, Dave Grusin and He is currently signed onto Sony ATV (Sony Publishing) London.

Cobhams is presently the CEO of Cobhams Asuquo Music Production (CAMP), an all-encompassing
entertainment company based in Lagos.

Cobhams ventured out from the producers’ seat and into the vocal booth in 2011, to put some of his most loved songs into an inspiring, uplifting self-published
contemporary Christian album. The first single of the album is called Ordinary People.

CNN Africa Voices featured Cobhams in a full-length
interview on December 2011.
In 2009, Cobhams was selected to attend the World Intellectual Property Organization (W.I.P.O)
conference in Switzerland, where he also performed during the WIPO concert.
He appeared as a guest mentor for songwriting during
the MTV Base reality show: “Advance Warning.”
In the same year, Cobhams also won the Nigerian award for British Council’s International Young Music
Entrepreneur of the year. He went on to win the third place spot at the global finals.

Cobhams has amassed a plethora of other local and continental awards, some of which include:
The Future Awards 2006 and 2009 (Producer of the Year);
Hip-hop World Awards 2007 and 2008 (Producer of
the Year); Nigeria Music Awards (NMA) 2007 Producer
of the decade. Nigerian Music Awards (NMA) 2008 for
“Producer of the Decade”, LEAP Africa Award 2007
for his “Creativity, Fortitude & Exemplary Leadership
In the Music Industry”; the Partnership Awards 2008
for “supporting the Worship For Change Concert”
and One Gospel Awards for “Gospel Composer/
Writer of the Year” (2008).
Best Recording of the Year for his
song “Ordinary People” at the 2014 Headies.

"You've got to have something unique, whether it's your story, it's your voice or it's your lyrics, it's the sound of your instrument or it's the combination of all of these different factors. ” -Cobhams Asuquo




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