BIOGRAPHY
Swiss Blues Award Winner Justina Lee Brown follows Through with New ‘Billiki’ EP in Anticipation for Afrobeats Album
Award-winning Europe-based Nigerian Afro-Funk, Soul, and Blues singer, songwriter, and all-round entertainer, Justina Ogunlolu, popularly known as Justina Lee Brown, is set to release her new EP ‘Billiki’, in anticipation of an Afrobeats album.
Having recently become the first African to win the prestigious Swiss Blues Award for 2024 with her 2023-released album ‘Lost Child’ (which was also declared by the Swiss Blues Society to have been the best self-produced soul blues album in Switzerland for 2023), Justina Lee Brown continues to forge ahead with her music, which seamlessly blends African lyricism with Western-leaning global sounds, creating a unique and captivating musical experience for listeners worldwide.
With a Nigerian background of being the first runner-up in 2006’s Nokia First Chance reality singing competition and going on to deliver a smash hit titled ‘Omo 2 sexy’ in 2008 under her first name, ‘Justina’, a sensual Afro-pop song that rocked the waves in the then Nigerian music industry that was heavily male-dominated by the likes of Tuface, 9ice, Mo’ Hits Crew, Terry G, among others.
The singer since then relocated and has morphed into an Afro-funk, Jazz, Blues, and Soul singer, leaving behind the label of an emerging Afrobeats diva, gracing several auditoriums, amphitheatres, and stages in Europe in a new quest to cement herself as a prolific global singer, songwriter, composer, and performer. Some of her career highlights include winning the Women in Entertainment Award for ‘Best African Voice’ in London, winning the Swiss Blues Challenge, being a two-time nominee for the prestigious Swiss Blues Awards, and being the first African to win a Swiss Blues award, among other remarkable feats. Interestingly, the singer is also an energetic and mind-blowing performer, having performed or sold out in more than 500 venues across Europe, including France, Austria, Germany, Switzerland, Portugal, Russia, the United Kingdom, Latvia, Luxembourg, and a host of others.
So far, she has put out over six studio albums, with the last two albums ‘Black and White Feeling’ released in 2019, as well as ‘Lost Child’ in 2023, making bold statements on a global scale. The singer is now set to release an EP for a standout song titled ‘BILLIKI” off her last album, which is different remixes of the music. According to Justina Lee Brown, her previous album “is a reflection of who she is, her truth, as a free and expressive entertainer who is not confined by any one genre or label.” Therefore, she has decided to continue on that path with the new project. ‘Biliki’, being a special record off her previous album, tells the story of how hostile society can be for a girl child. Leaving them with scars of rape, sexual assault, and all other ugly events.
The three-track EP, in anticipation of an Afrobeats album, will feature the original version of ‘BILLIKI’, off the already released ‘Lost Child’ album, a remix version that dwells in an ambient folk genre and gives an African traditional feel to properly deliver the song from the African roots Justina Lee Brown is from, and a pop version tagged as the “emansworld version,” produced by emansworld and having the western pop feel to it, making it an introspective yet groovy tune.
Justina is back on Tour since March 2025.
THE JLB BAND…
DAVID STAUFFACHER
Percussion
www.davidstauffacher.ch
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CARLO MENET
Guitar
www.carlomenet.com
and ANDY ALLENBACH
Guitar
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LOU LUIS CRUZ
Bass
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CHRISTIAN BOSSHARD
and JORDY MAYASI
Drums
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CESAR CORREA
and ANDY ALLENBACH
Keys
