Kabusa Oriental Choir

Kabusa Oriental Choir is a Choir from Nigeria that is known for creating choir versions of popular songs.

The Choir was created by Austin Chinemezu Nwamara, the Director, on the 11th of March 2019 when he published their first song which was a choral mashup cover of 'Yeba' and 'Baba'; it went viral and launched the choir into limelight.

The inspiration behind the creation of the choir came when the Director, Austin Chinemezu Nwamara, was on an Uber ride home from his place of work – a law firm in Abuja, Nigeria - with a colleague. He asked his colleague to imagine what the song ‘Baba’ would sound like if the catholic church choir sang it. He then began to sing it while they all burst into laughter including the Uber driver. He was then asked to find a studio immediately and record the song because it would be an instant hit.

The following week, Austin found a studio and recorded the song, then shot a music video with a Samsung S9 with the choir arrayed in choir robes. The video was posted on Instagram and became an instant hit. It was on most major blogs, featured on several TV stations, reposted by thousands of fans on their WhatsApp statuses, Instagram and Facebook. It stirred multiple reactions on the internet by Nigerian Catholics who could relate to it.

Over the years, Kabusa Oriental Choir has evolved from just creating choir covers of popular songs to featuring in major mainstream songs like 'Pray' by BNXN FKA BUJU, 'As always' by Skales, 'Giving dem' by Yung Willis and Timaya, 'My G' by Kizz Daniel, 'That Guy' by Zlatan Ibile, ' Rise up' by DJ Neptune ft. Laycon, Ladipoe, Waje.


The choir's main Influences are, the African Village church choir, Handel classical liturgical choir, Kirk Franklin, Gregorian Chants, The massai Tribe singers and different group sounds from all ethnicities of the world

In February 2020, Kabusa Oriental Choir released a song for Valentine's Day titled 'Valentine is Coming' which Launched the choir into the international scene; especially in the United Kingdom where it was featured on BBC 1XTRA RADIO in 2020 during the Valentine week. It has become a ritual to release new verses to the song every year.

The Choir has gone on to create more covers like 'Soso' which blew up on TikTok and exceeded one million streams on Spotify and 'Soweto' which caught the attention of Swae Lee

The choir was honoured with the award for Best in Music Comedy in the 2nd edition of Humour Award 2023.

Current stats shows that the choir has over a 300k monthly listeners on Spotify exceeding one million streams


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