Tebey
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Tebey is a Canadian
country music
singer and multi-genre songwriter. His only chart hit to date is 2003's "We Shook Hands (Man to Man)", a #47 hit on the Billboard
Hot Country Songs
charts and a Top 5 single on the Canadian country music charts. He has composed several singles for other artists, in addition to releasing singles of his own.
record label and moved to that city with his father, a Nigeria
n-born electronics engineer, with his mother and siblings staying back at their family home in Burlington, Ontario
.
After two years with very little movement, they returned to Burlington. Ottoh's success in high school football there drew the attention of American college recruiters, but his Nashville career took a belated turn as a friend successfully talked him up in the industry. Ottoh was signed to BNA Records
as a singer and Warner Chappel Music
as a staff songwriter
, and signed fellow Canadian Bruce Allen
as his manager.
Allen put Ottoh together with a fellow client, record producer
Bob Rock
. Working towards his first album, Ottoh both wrote for himself and collaborated with songwriters Annie Roboff, Bob DiPiero, Jim Collins
, Naoise Sheridan and Rory Bourke.
and Canada. Tebey was the subject of a segment on CBC Radio
's Sounds Like Canada
, and nominated for a 2004 Canadian Radio Music Award for Best New Group or Solo Artist (Country), against Damian Marshall
, Deric Ruttan
, Heather Dawn and Jason Blaine
.
Returning to Canada, Ottoh became a professional songwriter in popular music outside of country. Artists for whom he has written include Sony BMG recording artist Rex Goudie (including co-writing the #1 Hot AC single "Run"), Shawn Desman (including co-writing his #1 pop/r&b single "Let's Go"), 2006 Canadian Idol winner Melissa O'Neil, Open Road/Universal country Tara Oram and On Ramp/EMI artist Brad Johner. Tebey also has a co-penned song on Big & Rich's million selling album Between Raising Hell and Amazing Grace" platinum.
In 2007 Tebey signed a worldwide co-publishing deal with Ole Media Management. He subsequently then moved to Nashville, Tennessee where he currently resides. In 2008 Tebey has found himself traveling quite frequently to Stockholm Sweden, and Los Angeles to write for projects outside of the country music genre. His recent co-writers include production team The Runners (Chris Brown/Danity Kane), Fancci Richard (Jojo, Keysha Cole), Location Songs (Celine Dion, Westlife, Lindsay Lohan), Kristian Lundin (Backstreet Boys, Celine Dion, NSYNC) & Lonny Bereal (Beyonce, Jamie Foxx).
In 2009 Tebey co-wrote the Teairra Mari single featuring FLO RIDA called "Cause A Scene". The music video was shot in Las Vegas on April 7. The album was released by Fo'Reel Ent/Warner Bros that summer. On September 11, 2011 Tebey scored his first-ever UK #1 single as a songwriter when his song "All About Tonight", recorded by Pixie Lott (Mercury Records), debuted at #1 with over 88,000 copies sold. On September 18 the song also topped the official UK Radio Airplay Chart, surpassing Maroon 5's "Moves Like Jagger".
Canada
Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...
country music
Country music
Country music is a popular American musical style that began in the rural Southern United States in the 1920s. It takes its roots from Western cowboy and folk music...
singer and multi-genre songwriter. His only chart hit to date is 2003's "We Shook Hands (Man to Man)", a #47 hit on the Billboard
Billboard (magazine)
Billboard is a weekly American magazine devoted to the music industry, and is one of the oldest trade magazines in the world. It maintains several internationally recognized music charts that track the most popular songs and albums in various categories on a weekly basis...
Hot Country Songs
Hot Country Songs
Hot Country Songs is a chart published weekly by Billboard magazine in the United States.This 60-position chart lists the most popular country music songs, calculated weekly mostly by airplay and occasionally commercial sales...
charts and a Top 5 single on the Canadian country music charts. He has composed several singles for other artists, in addition to releasing singles of his own.
Early life
He started singing in church at the age of five, spreading his wings to sing at local events. In 1990 and again in 1994, he won the 14-and-under male division of the Canadian Open Country Singing Contest, and in 1996 and 1998, the 18-and-under male division. At 15, he signed a development deal with a major NashvilleNashville, Tennessee
Nashville is the capital of the U.S. state of Tennessee and the county seat of Davidson County. It is located on the Cumberland River in Davidson County, in the north-central part of the state. The city is a center for the health care, publishing, banking and transportation industries, and is home...
record label and moved to that city with his father, a Nigeria
Nigeria
Nigeria , officially the Federal Republic of Nigeria, is a federal constitutional republic comprising 36 states and its Federal Capital Territory, Abuja. The country is located in West Africa and shares land borders with the Republic of Benin in the west, Chad and Cameroon in the east, and Niger in...
n-born electronics engineer, with his mother and siblings staying back at their family home in Burlington, Ontario
Burlington, Ontario
Burlington , is a city located in Halton Region at the western end of Lake Ontario. Burlington is part of the Greater Toronto Area, and is also included in the Hamilton Census Metropolitan Area. Physically, Burlington lies between the north shore of Lake Ontario and the Niagara Escarpment...
.
After two years with very little movement, they returned to Burlington. Ottoh's success in high school football there drew the attention of American college recruiters, but his Nashville career took a belated turn as a friend successfully talked him up in the industry. Ottoh was signed to BNA Records
BNA Records
BNA Records, formerly known as BNA Entertainment, is a label group that shares ties with Arista Nashville and RCA Nashville from parent company Sony Music Nashville, which itself is a subsidiary of Sony Music Entertainment. Based in Nashville, Tennessee, BNA features country music acts on its roster...
as a singer and Warner Chappel Music
Warner Music Group
Warner Music Group is the third largest business group and family of record labels in the recording industry, making it one of the big four record companies...
as a staff songwriter
Songwriter
A songwriter is an individual who writes both the lyrics and music to a song. Someone who solely writes lyrics may be called a lyricist, and someone who only writes music may be called a composer...
, and signed fellow Canadian Bruce Allen
Bruce Allen (manager)
Bruce Allen is a Canadian music band manager who represents a number of popular Canadian musicians including Bachman-Turner Overdrive, Bryan Adams and Michael Bublé...
as his manager.
Allen put Ottoh together with a fellow client, record producer
Record producer
A record producer is an individual working within the music industry, whose job is to oversee and manage the recording of an artist's music...
Bob Rock
Bob Rock
Robert Jens Rock, , is a Canadian musician, sound engineer, and record producer best known for producing bands such as Aerosmith, The Cult, Bon Jovi, Mötley Crüe, 311, Metallica, Our Lady Peace, The Offspring and most recently Bush.-Payola$ and Rock and Hyde:Rock began his music career in Langford,...
. Working towards his first album, Ottoh both wrote for himself and collaborated with songwriters Annie Roboff, Bob DiPiero, Jim Collins
Jim Collins (singer)
Jim Collins is an American country music singer-songwriter. Between 1985 and 1998, Collins released three studio albums. He also charted seven singles on Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart...
, Naoise Sheridan and Rory Bourke.
Career
In 2002 and 2003, as Tebey, his performance of "We Shook Hands (Man to Man)" became a charted country radio hit in the United StatesUnited States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
and Canada. Tebey was the subject of a segment on CBC Radio
CBC Radio
CBC Radio generally refers to the English-language radio operations of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. The CBC operates a number of radio networks serving different audiences and programming niches, all of which are outlined below.-English:CBC Radio operates three English language...
's Sounds Like Canada
Sounds Like Canada
Sounds Like Canada was a Canadian radio program, which aired weekday mornings on CBC Radio One from 2002 to 2008. Until the end of May 2008, the program was hosted by the award-winning broadcaster Shelagh Rogers, and in the summers by a rotating series of guest hosts...
, and nominated for a 2004 Canadian Radio Music Award for Best New Group or Solo Artist (Country), against Damian Marshall
Damian Marshall
Damian Marshall is a Canadian country music singer/songwriter from Winnipeg, Manitoba.-Albums:-Singles:-External links:***...
, Deric Ruttan
Deric Ruttan
Deric J. Ruttan is a Canadian country music artist from Bracebridge, Ontario. Signed to Lyric Street Records in 2003, he made his chart debut on the U.S. and Canadian country music charts that year with the release of his single "When You Come Around"...
, Heather Dawn and Jason Blaine
Jason Blaine
Jason Blaine is a Canadian country music singer/songwriter from Pembroke, Ontario. The winner of Project Discovery 2002, Jason's top 10 singles include "Rock In My Boot" and "Flirtin' With Me."-Career:...
.
Returning to Canada, Ottoh became a professional songwriter in popular music outside of country. Artists for whom he has written include Sony BMG recording artist Rex Goudie (including co-writing the #1 Hot AC single "Run"), Shawn Desman (including co-writing his #1 pop/r&b single "Let's Go"), 2006 Canadian Idol winner Melissa O'Neil, Open Road/Universal country Tara Oram and On Ramp/EMI artist Brad Johner. Tebey also has a co-penned song on Big & Rich's million selling album Between Raising Hell and Amazing Grace" platinum.
In 2007 Tebey signed a worldwide co-publishing deal with Ole Media Management. He subsequently then moved to Nashville, Tennessee where he currently resides. In 2008 Tebey has found himself traveling quite frequently to Stockholm Sweden, and Los Angeles to write for projects outside of the country music genre. His recent co-writers include production team The Runners (Chris Brown/Danity Kane), Fancci Richard (Jojo, Keysha Cole), Location Songs (Celine Dion, Westlife, Lindsay Lohan), Kristian Lundin (Backstreet Boys, Celine Dion, NSYNC) & Lonny Bereal (Beyonce, Jamie Foxx).
In 2009 Tebey co-wrote the Teairra Mari single featuring FLO RIDA called "Cause A Scene". The music video was shot in Las Vegas on April 7. The album was released by Fo'Reel Ent/Warner Bros that summer. On September 11, 2011 Tebey scored his first-ever UK #1 single as a songwriter when his song "All About Tonight", recorded by Pixie Lott (Mercury Records), debuted at #1 with over 88,000 copies sold. On September 18 the song also topped the official UK Radio Airplay Chart, surpassing Maroon 5's "Moves Like Jagger".
Single(s) discography
- 2011 - JLS -"TBA" (Epic Records UK)
- 2011 - Pixie Lott - "All About Tonight" (Mercury Records UK) : UK #1 single & UK #1 Radio Airplay (2 weeks)
- 2011 - Nick Carter "Love Can't Wait" (Universal)
- 2011 - Tara Oram - "Kiss Me When I Fall" (Open Road/Universal Music Canada)
- 2011 - Emerson Drive - "Sleep It Off" (Open Road/Universal Music Canada)
- 2011 - Emerson Drive - "When I See You Again" (Open Road/Universal Music Canada): The single peaked at #11 & spent 30 weeks in the Top 50.
- 2011 - One More Girl - "Fall Like That"
- 2009 - Teairra Mari ft FLO RIDA "Cause A Scene" (Fo 'Reel Ent/Warner Bros)
- 2009 - Misia "Ginga"
- 2009 - Tara Oram - "Go To Bed Angry" (Open Road/Universal Music Canada)
- 2005 - Shawn Desman "Let's Go" (Sony Music Canada): #1 Canadian Single
- 2005 - Rex Goudie "Run" (Sony Music Canada): #1 Canadian single
Co-writers
The Runners, Julian Bunetta, Andrew Frampton, Cutfather, Tommy Lee James, Lucas Secon, Brian Kidd, George Teren, Shawn Desman, Matthew GerrardSingles
| Year | Single | Peak positions | Album |
|---|---|---|---|
| US Country Hot Country Songs Hot Country Songs is a chart published weekly by Billboard magazine in the United States.This 60-position chart lists the most popular country music songs, calculated weekly mostly by airplay and occasionally commercial sales... |
|||
| 2003 | "We Shook Hands (Man to Man)" | 47 | Non-album songs |
| 2007 | "Damned If I" | — | |
| 2011 | "All About Us" | — | TBD |
| "—" denotes releases that did not chart | |||
External links
- http://www.tebeymusic.com