Happy Birthday to @JAYWONJUWONLO
From all of us at Kogixcommunity, we celebrate you today and wish you many more years of success, happiness and good health. May God’s light continue to shine upon your path and may all your endeavors prosper.
Thank you for all you do for Okun people.
Have a wonderful celebration.
CC: @harrysone9
I can see many top celebrities now speaking out about the insecurity challenges facing Nigeria as the threat appears to be drawing closer to Lagos.
Let it be remembered that @JAYWONJUWONLO was one of the few celebrities who stood his ground and spoke up for his people in Okunland and Yagba West while many others were busy promoting and organizing concerts.
He faced a ₦100 million lawsuit and endured insults from political loyalists and critics simply because he chose to use his platform to raise awareness about the security situation affecting his people.
We will never forget his courage and willingness to speak when it mattered most.
When you talk about Kogi State and music in the same breath, one name always comes up - Jaywon. Born and raised in Egbe, Yagba West Local Government Area of Kogi State, he took his culture, his roots, and his hunger for success and built a music career in Nigeria could not ignore.
Jaywon proved that our people belong at the top. This is Kogi Spotlight, and today, we celebrate one of our finest.
Jaywon - Kogi is proud of you. 🇳🇬✨
Дякую всім за вашу підтримку та віру в мене! Ви неймовірні, пам’ятайте про це.
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Thank you all for your support and for believing in me! You’re all incredible, never forget that.
Oleksandr Usyk says he thought he LOST to Rico Verhoeven and his team kept telling him to keep fighting, until the ref suddenly stopped the match out of nowhere now says maybe the ref was paid because they didn’t want a new king crowned 😳
“Maybe the ref was paid idk”
“Happy still the champion”
What many people don’t know is that between 2007 and 2009, Solid Star recorded a lot of songs, but as the A&R and CEO of the label, I knew something was still missing. The talent was obvious, the vocals were amazing, but there was a particular spark I was searching for that I hadn’t heard yet in any of the records.
One day, I called him and said, “Look, I don’t want another fast-tempo song. I need something different. Give me a mid-tempo record, something with a bounce, something emotional. Just write a proper love song.”
He agreed and went to work on it. After a while, he came back and said, “I’ve written the love song. Do you want to hear it?” I told him yes immediately.
Around that same period, we were at Comfort Suites in Festac, and luckily for us, the late legendary producer OJB Jezreel was there that night working with 2Baba. I introduced Solid Star to OJB and told him we really wanted to work with him. OJB welcomed the idea and asked us to come back in a few days.
When we got to the appointment, OJB said he wanted to hear the song first.Solidstar sang the song for him, and almost instantly he caught the vision. Within less than 40 minutes, OJB had already created the beat, Solid Star had voiced the track, and the foundation of One in a Million was born.
After the recording, OJB looked at me and said something I would never forget: “If you can get 2Face on this song, it will be massive. This sounds like something he would naturally jump on.”
That advice changed everything.
As soon as I got back to Festac, I took the song to 2Baba. Before he even traveled to Abuja for his 10-year anniversary celebration, he was already vibing heavily to the song. By the time he got to Abuja, he knew the lyrics almost word for word. He told me he already had ideas for what he wanted to add to the record.
Then he said something that became another major turning point in Solid Star’s career: “If you don’t mind, bring Solidstar to Abuja to perform.”
That Abuja event — 2Face’s 10-year anniversary — became Solid Star’s very first major stage performance.
After they returned from Abuja, 2Face called me again and said, “Bring Solo to the house. I want to record my verse.” And that was how the legendary collaboration finally came together.
Once the audio was done, I approached Clarence Peters with the song. He listened carefully and immediately said he had a strong visual concept for it. He suggested we travel all the way to Erin Ijesha water falls for the shoot and also involve legendary photographer Kelechi Amadi-Obi in the creative process.
Everything sounded incredible — until he gave me the budget. It was a seven-figure production cost, which at that time was a huge risk for us as a growing label. I took the proposal back to my directors and explained everything to them. After deliberating, we all agreed on one thing: “Let’s give it a shot.”
And that was how we traveled toOsun state and shot the iconic One in a Million video.
On another note, I’ll still tell the full story of how I eventually got 2Baba to personally appear in that video.