DJ Cuppy
DJ Cuppy, by his real name Florence Ifeoluwa Otedola, was born on 11 November 1992 in Lagos, Nigeria, and moved to London at 13 years of age.
Biographie
DJ Cuppy, by his real name Florence Ifeoluwa Otedola, was born on 11 November 1992 in Lagos, Nigeria, and moved to London at 13 years of age.
Graduated from King's College London in Business and Economics (2014), then graduated from a Master's degree in Music Business at New York University (2015) and a Master's degree in African Studies at Oxford (2022).
In 2014, she was a resident DJ at the MTV Africa Music Awards in Durban and published her first compilation House of Cuppy, launched in London, Lagos and New York; she founded Red Velvet Music Group in London the same year.
She described her sound as "Neo-Afrobeats", a fusion of electro house and Afrobeats; first original singles from 2017 (Green Light with Tekno, then Gelato with Zlatan).
Her first studio album Original Copy appeared in 2020, and in the same year she became the first host of Africa Now Radio, Apple's first show in Africa, and appeared in Forbes 30 Under 30.
She founded the Cuppy Foundation in 2018; in September 2024 she hosted the opening session of the UN General Assembly in New York.
Faits marquants
- MTV Africa Music Awards (Durban, resident DJ) (2014) — documented presence
- Glastonbury — documented presence
- Wireless Festival — documented presence
- Global Citizen Festival (Central Park, New York) (2024) — documented presence
Liens officiels
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