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Wole Sentiméntà was born Mayowa Oluwole Olukayode to the family of Chief Samuel Ayilara Mayowa in Osun State, Nigeria. He hails from Ife central local government area Ile-Ife. He attended St Dominic High Shcool Akure, Ondo State. He studied Mass Communication in The Polytechnic Ibadan, Oyo State. He started music as a child from RCCG choir Kings Parish, Akure, officially at the age of 11, when he was in secondary school he joined a gospel band in Akure called The Soul Fishers in 1996, where he led the band in the first Afro song "I GO SING" he wrote at the age of 13 and won an award of the Best Youngest African Gospel Artist of the year in 1997 while the band came 3rd among the 51 groups that competed at Fetshiter music Festival Held in Lagos. He wasn't really encouraged to do music at a point when he was in the high school, so he had to stop on till he graduated. Wole moved to Lagos in 2004 and worked with Nigerian Brewry PLC for three years, got another employment with United Bank of Africa UBA for another two years before he later formed his own band Called Da Uptimist, the band major on Afro, Jazz and High-Life music, which was inaugurated on the 27th July, 2008. The name "Sentiméntà" came up while he was performing an Afro beat Song in the church (Eagle's Assembly) at crossover night on 31 of December 2006. he wanted the audience attention on the lyrics of the song, he brought the music down and said "follow this musical progression sentimentally". There after, the song became an house hold song in the church and all over the place, sice then everyone that come across him calls him sentimenta. He also released a promotion album in 2010 which has spawned a hit, "Like David",produced by Wole Oni and "Maromipin" produce by Sammyjayzee, though one of his least successful hits ever, did well in some charts. The promo CD is said to have faced distribution and sales problems, going unnoticed in some areas of the country He delve into secular music in 2011 due irrational attitude of the christian leaders towards gospel musicians in Nigeria, after his performance in Delta State along side with Timaya at Ugwuashi Carnival on 25th Dec, 2011. He took up a courage of standing his own show AFRIKANNA NITE which was lunched on the 1st May,2012 at Austina Continental Suites, Lagos. and the next edition was held at African Shrine on 25th Dec, 2013. He traveled on tour across African countries with charity organizations and he was featured in a track SWEET HOME with BLACK BAZAR Band in France in 2013, he latter got a deal with a management company "Sociallycued-pro International" in Texas, USA who secured him a record deal with Tate Music Group in Oklahoma. The record label released his first Debut Album "Sentiméntà" of 10 tracks on 3rd June,2014. CLICK ON THIS LINKS FOR MORE MATERIALS ABOUT ME https://tatemusicgroup.com/epk/artist/29797 https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/sentimenta/id879584892 https://soundcloud.com/sentimenta/be-happy-sentigbadun https://www.facebook.com/wole.sentimenta http://youtu.be/6xHRBeAkFh4 http://www.naijapals.com/music/CELEBRATE_WOLE_SENTIMENTA___Da_UPTIMIST_BAND-29679 https://twitter.com/Wole_Sentimenta?lang=en Tweets with replies by Wole Sentiméntà (@Wole_Sentimenta) | Twitter twitter.com

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