Award-winning Nigerian music video director and filmmaker, Kemi Adetiba whose works have appeared on Channel O, MTV Base, and BET, is a year older today, January 8, 2016.
Kemi Adetiba started her journey into the media as a young child when she headlined two national television commercials for the iconic detergent brand, OMO, towing the path of her father, Dele Adetiba, a veteran in the advertising and broadcast industries who played a pivotal role in the development in Nigeria.
The video director started out professionally as a radio presenter with Rhythm 93.7 FM but she made a transition from being a voice on radio to being a face on television by producing and presenting several shows on MNet, which includes Studio 53 and Temptation Nigeria, which she presented alongside Ikponmwosa Osakioduwa.
Kemi was also a presenter on Soundcity TV and hosted Maltina Dance All for three consecutive seasons. After years of success being in front of the camera, Adetiba enrolled into the New York Film Academy to learn the ropes about being behind the cameras and today, her bodies of work as a director are spread across the African continent and beyond.
Some of the awards her works have won include Best Female Video for the song ‘Ekundayo’ by TY Bello at the Soundcity Music Video Awards, Best Female Video for the song ‘Today na Today’ by Omawunmi at the 2010 Nigeria Entertainment Awards. Adetiba’s most recent works are music video direction of Waje’s ‘Onye’ which features Tiwa Savage, Olamide‘s ‘Anifowose’, ‘Sitting on the Throne’ and Bez‘s R&B single ‘Say.’ Kemi was nominated for Best Music Video Director of the Year at The Headies 2014 and won City People Entertainment Award 2015 Best Music Video Director Of The Year.
Happy birthday Kemi.
