Kemi Adetiba | |
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| Born | (1980-01-08)8 January 1980 (age 45) Lagos,Lagos State, Nigeria |
| Occupation | Filmmaker, music video director, television director |
| Nationality | Nigerian |
| Education | LLB Law |
| Alma mater | University of Lagos |
| Spouse | [1] |
Kemi Adetibalistenⓘ (born 8 January 1980) is aNigerianfilmmaker, television director and music video director, whose works have appeared on Channel O,MTV Base,Sound City TV,BET andNetflix.[2][3]
Kemi Adetiba was born inLagos, Nigeria, to Dele andMayen Adetiba.[4] She featured in a Television commercial for the detergent brandOMO as a child.[5]
Adetiba holds a bachelor's degree in law from theUniversity of Lagos.[6]
Adetiba became engaged to Oscar Heman-Ackah in January 2022, and they were married in April of the same year.[7][8]
Adetiba started out professionally as a radio presenter withRhythm 93.7 FM, where she became the voice behind two nationally syndicated hit showsSoul'd Out andSunday at the Seaside. She started anonymously posting personal remixes online on various applications, such asSpotify andSoundcloud, under the username and tag 'hule'.
She began to make a transition from being a voice on radio, to being a face on television by producing and presenting several shows onMnet, which includes Studio 53, Temptation Nigeria, which she presented alongsideIkponmwosa Osakioduwa. Adetiba was also a presenter onSoundcity TV and hosted Maltina Dance All for three consecutive seasons.[9]
After years of success being in front of the camera, she enrolled at theNew 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 its borders. Adetiba's short filmAcross a Bloodied Ocean was screened at the 2009Pan African Film Festival andNational Black Arts Festival.[10]
On 8 September 2016, Adetiba's first feature filmThe Wedding Party (a Nigerian Rom-com film) premiered on opening night, at the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF), as the opening film of the City-to-City Spotlight.
In 2017, she was presenting the showKing Women where she interviewed her mother Mayen Adetiba. Other formerKing Women includedChigul,Taiwo Ajai-Lycett,TY Bello andTara Durotoye.[11]
Her works have won her several awards,[12] including Best Female Video for the song "Ekundayo" byTY Bello at the Soundcity TV Music Video Awards, Best Female Video for the song "Today na Today" byOmawumi at the2010 Nigeria Entertainment Awards. Adetiba's most recent works are the music video direction ofWaje’s "Onye", which featuresTiwa Savage,Olamide's "Anifowose", "Sitting on the Throne" andBez'sR&B single "Say".
Adetiba was nominated for Best Music Video Director of the Year atThe Headies 2014.[13] She won theCity People Entertainment Award for Best Music Video Director Of The Year (2015)[14] and aHNWOTY Award for Woman of the Year in Film and Television (2017).[15]
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