Book Rotimi for colleges, corporate events, fairs, festivals, casinos & private shows. Contact Degy Entertainment for booking info.
Rotimi writes contemporary R&B with Afrobeats and dancehall pulling at the edges of it, and he has been working that seam since While You Wait, his first full-length. Royal Wednesday sharpened the approach, and by the time In My Heart In My Veins landed he had a sound that reads as R&B first and moves like something built for a dance floor. The records now come out through EMPIRE.
He started early. Maplewood raised him, he joined a music group at seventeen, and the mentorship he found there came from Jay-Z, which is a rare piece of schooling for a teenager still deciding what kind of artist he wants to be. Born Olurotimi Akinosho, he has carried the work himself since, a solo recording artist under a single name.
The payoff showed up on the charts in 2019, when Rotimi hit No. 1 on Billboard's Next Big Sound, the metric that tracks who audiences are actually finding. His touring has run wide of any single circuit, from the Bethesda Theatre to rooms like Eclipse and Noir Sydney, which is the useful thing to know about him as a live booking: the material holds up in a seated theater and in a late room with the lights down. That range makes him a straightforward fit for college programming, corporate dates, festival and fair lineups, casinos, and private events.
