Lojay

Lekan Osifeso Jnr was born and raised Lagos, he lived in Ikorodu and later moved to Victoria Island with his family. He graduated from the University of Portsmouth, UK in 2018.^[10] Lekan has shown great potential and inclination towards music since he was a child. While in secondary school at Nigerian Turkish Secondary School in Nigeria, he was in a local rap group called Dkoy. While in Dkoy he released hits like Kilode. As his mother was a pastor, Osifeso went to church regularly, as a family routine during his formative years.^[11] While growing up, Chris Brown was one of his favorite singers.^[12][11]

Lojay's stage name is an abbreviation of the first letters of his full name "Lekan Osifeso Junior" (LO-J). He picked interest in music and singing as an adolescent. And pursued his passion through his teenage years.^[1] He is fluid with the genre of music he does and switches from one gnere to the other. In an interview with Nataal, he said^[11]

"I don't have a genre and I'm not going to put myself in a box just because people expect it....anyone that wants to put me in a box is free to do so. As long as you are jamming and connecting to the gbedu(song), you can call it anything you want. If I do rock tomorrow, nobody should fight me."

He started music professionally in 2016 on a part-time basis while he was still an undergraduate and then went on to focus solely on music after obtaining his degree.^[2] In December 2017, Lojay released his debut EP, Midnight Vibes, which consisted of five tracks. The titles of the tracks from the EP are "Atarodo", "Alomo", "Kele", "10K Splaw" and "Whine & Bubble".^[13]

In 2019, he released the single "Ariel" and in 2020 he released another single titled "Ogogoro". Between his initial sojourn into the music industry in 2016 and the release of his breakout songs in 2021, Lojay dropped several singles including "Along, Kuli Kuli, Over the Bar" amongst others.

On 4 June 2021, his sophomore EP titled LV N ATTN (stylized from Love and Attention), which was a joint EP alongside producer Sarz, was released. LV N ATTN is a five track EP that contained his breakout single "Tonongo",^[14] the song "Monalisa", which he went on to remix with Chris Brown,^[15]"LV N ATTN", in which he featured Wizkid,^[16] "Panty!" and "Park O X3". The body of work earned a nomination for The Headies Award for Next Rated artist for The Headies 2022.^[6] In November 2021, he and Zlatan Ibile were featured by DJ Neptune on the song titled "Only fan".^[17]

In 2022, he took part in the Heineken UEFA Champions League trophy tour in Nigeria.^[18][19]

In March 2023, Lojay released his second solo EP titled Gangster Romantic.^[20] "Monalisa" was certified Silver by the British Phonographic Industry (BPI) later that month.^[21]