Kabusa Oriental Choir - Topic

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.

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.

On 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.

Current stats shows that the choir has over a 100k monthly listeners exceeding one million streams