After a long break, popular Gambianmbalax sensation, Pa Omar Jack believes he has finally struck the right chord and is ready to make headlines with his new album coming soon.
Famous for hits such as ‘Fish and Chips’, ‘Love O Metre’ and ‘JigueniGambia’, the rising singer is focused and ready to showcase his musical artistry again.
Starting out his musical career in his early school days, POJ as fondly called first burst onto the musical platform in mid 2000s with a clear vision and mission to make a difference.
The Seattle-based singer is optimistic that this upcoming album, which will be his fourth, would certainly make a great difference in the country’s music scene.
‘This will be my fourth album. My first album is called ‘Niniyo’ or simply ‘Fish and Chips’. Then came another hit album called –‘Lover O Metre’ and then the third masterpiece –‘Gambia Cha-kanam’ he added.
Apart from these albums, POJ also released couple of songs namely-I’m Crazy in 2017 by producer Hakim of Sunland music.
He also dropped another superb hit a year later titled –‘Sarra’,which is an afro-cum acoustic beat featuring AmadouSuso and produced at JP records in Seattle,Washington.
This hit song also featured multi-instrumentalists.
Since then he has been working underground and with a vast collection of materials at hand now, he is looking forward to dropping his new album.
“The name of my upcoming album is called ‘Sargal-len’,in which I paid tributes to Gambian music veterans.The album is expected in December or January 2020. The 8-track album will be on I-tunes, Spotify and Amazon and other global music distribution sites”.
The forthcoming masterpiece, he added, features hit songs such as a collaboration with The Gambia’s king of Kora -JalibaKuyateh titled -‘Ngembuna’
“It also features ‘Jokh-ko-cheram’ and‘Sargal-len’, which is also a single in the album and a song in which I dedicate to ‘Borom- kerr”.
He hinted that the album would be strictly an all mbalaxaffair with few international songs.
Commenting on the country’s current music, POJ stated; “Just as usually The Gambia’s music lacks some basic ingredients, which includes the much-needed support from government. We need an active institution and the Tourism ministry needs to establish something for the country’s music industry. This includes the Copyright regime, which is created by the government.For instance, if foreign artistes are to perform they have pay tax, which is also call a working permit, just as Gambian artistes do in foreign countries”.
Aside his musical career, Pa Omar Jack also operates his own recording studio based in Seattle, Washington called JP Records and multimedia, which incorporated his online TV called Price TV. Since he learnt how to edit songs, his ambitions are to expand his multi-media network to The Gambia someday.
Born on the 28th August, 1980, POJ is a 38-year-old mbalaxsensation who contradicts the notion that ‘mbalax stars from The Gambia’ cannot give a good performance.
It was during the early 2000s, when this inspirational performer hit international spotlight. Sooner than anticipated he came to the attention of famous promoters such as Kebba Taylor, Hakim of Sunland studios, and ElizeNachif of Yellow gate studios to name a few.
Since he moved to United States couple of years ago, POJ is indeed showing no sign of slowing down.
