Oretayo Fatokun, also known as Tystringz, is relishing the thrill of performing alongside two of Nigeria’s biggest entertainers, Davido and Flavour. This feat comes in his first year as a professional musician.
Following the success of his debut single, Shalaye, the Texas-based singer and IT guru, was given a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to open for both acts at separate shows in his city.
Tystringz’s music has continued to impress, allowing him to connect with a diverse multi-racial audience across the United States and abroad.
Speaking about the experience, he disclosed, “I have been opportune to have opened for artists such as Davido and Flavour the same year as my debut. They were both great opportunities for me and also because both of these happened a couple of months into my debut this year, I see it as an awesome opportunity from a fledgling experience for me. To share the stage with such artists of such experiences was definitely an inundating and overwhelming experience. I hope to continue to get more opportunities and continue showcasing my music to the world.”
The singer is riding high on the success of his exciting debut single, Shalaye, which has received a lot of positive feedback.
According to Tystringz, Shalaye is a song that took a long time to come. He explains, it is “a song I wrote with a melody that has resonated in my mind for a long but I never wrote any song in the past to portray it. So during the lockdown in 2020, I decided to pick my guitar up like I have done several times over the years. I created a fusion of music, lyrics and sounds to express a period of time that I have felt in love, happy, free and blending all of that emotion with my music eclecticism and versatility.”
The singer has been influenced by several cultures since he was a child. Tystringz grew up in Sango-Otta, Ogun State, with an Oyo State father and an Ebira mother from Kogi.
He began his primary schooling at his Grandparents’ school, King Solomon Academy in Sango-Ota. After that, he moved to Ambassadors College and then to Covenant University in Otta to study Computer Science, earning a Bachelor’s Degree in 2013. In 2015, he returned to Loyola University Chicago to pursue his master’s degree in computer science, which he completed in May 2016.
Tystringz, who characterizes his music as Afrofusion, also teases the release of his first body of work, an EP that symbolizes his Afrofusion objectives, for next year. Tems, Show Dem Camp, Zinolesky, and Wizkid are among his fantasy collaborations.
