Tavian

Tavian-Biography Biography: real name –Tavian Oladapo Ogunmakin Born in the UK. Moved to Nigeria at the age of 6, attended mayflower junior school, Molusi College, and Baptist academy. Tavian moved to the United States where he joined a number of bands before moving to the UK Tavian was signed to polydor records as part of rock group “hysteria” who went on to record a creditable version of the hendrix classic” purple haze" Tavian also worked with producers, Charlie skarbek and Tim Smit who produced the European hit “midnight blue” for louise tucker . Tavian continued to work doing backing vocals for the likes of the English actress /model “Twiggy” and Alisha Warren, sister of Mica Paris. Tavian also worked on potential cartoons for the BBC in the UK.He also worked with producers like “yak bondy” who wrote maybe for “emma bunton” of the spice girls.he also worked with hit producer, steve mac who has worked with the likes of Mariah Carey, Leona Lewis, westlife, boyzone, Gareth gates, and toni braxton, Tavian provided the vocals for the underground hit"we can ride the boogie" by bubbles which was produced by steve mac and james anthony. Tavian also featured on “I don’t wanna be a part of you “by resistance featuring danny which was a minor hit in the 1990’s which was written and produced by steve mac Tavian met creative partner Jon Vears through a mutual friend, and decided to form the songwriting partnership called "Not The Norm Music" as part of the “RISE ENTERTAINMENT”project On the 29th of June 2006, one of their compositions entitled “17 heartaches” was profiled on www.recordoftheday.com. This led to Tavian being contacted by steve hogan of concord artist international and he was subsequently offered an opening slot with Keisha white on her regional tour. Tavian and Jon Vears continue to write new material and Jon has worked on tracks like “I love the way u lie”by rihanna and eminem,”airplanes by b.o.b,”im comin home “by p diddy and skylark grey,”castle walls”by T.I and Christina aguilera.jon is also working with hit,hip hop producer,”alex da kidd”.Tavian is now currently in nigeria working on writing and producing new material for some established Nigerian artistes. Email:Taviansongs@hotmail.co.uk Tel No: 07838277687 Naija Tel no: 08107535371 www.facebook/tavianaugustus www.myspace.com/taviansongs www.reverbnation.com/tavian https://twitter.com/#!/taviansongs

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