Oluwayemisi May Odegbami: biography, age, family, net worth

All you need to know about Oluwayemisi May Odegbami popularly known as May7ven Let’s look at her Biography, Nationality, Career, Age, Net worth, Family.

ABOUT
Oluwayemisi May Odegbami, known professionally as May7ven ‘Queen of Afrobeat’s, is a Nigerian-born singer, songwriter, dancer, producer, actress, model and entrepreneur. She was born on the 7^th of May 1984.

EARLY LIFE
Oluwayemisi May Odegbami was born in Ibadan, Nigeria to one of Nigeria’s greatest footballing & sports legends, Chief Segun Odegbami, and a Nigerian mother, Jumoke Tejumola, an accountant and ex-athlete. She joined her church choir when she was 10 and started teaching street dance at her local community centre in Kensal Green age 14. She landed her first job as an estate agent and property developer at age 17 whilst pursuing a studies and music career.

EDUCATION
She attended Bodija International School before relocating to the UK at the age of 6 with her mother, during her adolescence, May7ven studied Music, Sound Engineering, Building surveying and Architecture.

CAREER
May7ven who has always been business minded, finding new ways to turn her intellectual skills into cash by setting up various business from selling mini perfumes, mobile phones to the ‘rich kids’, designing and customizing clothes for the cool students in school and by the time she was 18 was already selling houses through her own property business so that she could eventually facilitate the process of becoming a recognized recording artist and music mogul. She was determined to raise enough capital to set up a record company, build a recording studio and sign other artists. She has performed for a lot of notable personalities including Marlon Jackson at the La Campaign Tropicana in Lekke, Nigeria, Marlon was so impressed with her performance, he said that she reminded him of his sister, Janet Jackson.

Oluwayemisi May Odegbami

In 2007, she re – created her debut single, ‘Hands up’ which she co-wrote with songwriter and producer Aeon Manahan and when it was released on May 7, 2008, it topped many charts including becoming No.7 on MTV Base UK and held No.3 on Top Club RnB track and various other charts in Germany, Sweden and Nigeria. Since coming down to Nigeria, she has collaborated with the likes of 2face, Wizkid and Davido among others.

In 2009, she supported Akon in a concert and then went on to land an 18-city tour deal in Africa supported by Globacom, a major telecommunication company in Nigeria, releasing a single, ‘Take off My Clothes/Bo Aso Lara MI’ in the same year which was a chart topper on the Nigeezy, Ben TV, Music Africa, Hip on TV, Soundcity and Top 10 MTV Base UK, Europe and Africa, Channel. May7ven has been commissioned to write and produce several programmes and theme music for TV and films including the 1st Eko Awards, Abuja Festival and the 1st Annual Gospel Music Awards UK in 2009.

In 2010 she became the executive producer of the DJ Abrantee Show on Sky TV and in March 2011, she performed on the Idols west Africa live show in Nigeria where she debuted her 3rd single ‘Number’ going on to launch her own radio show, City FM 105.1 in the same year and then in 2012, she released ‘Ten Ten’. In 2013, May7ven founded M7 Music Group, Afrobeat’s Live, CDN Networks, May Zing Hair line and created Afrobeat’s Search for a Star.

In May 2014, she joined the BringBackOurGirls campaign by doing a collabo with many popular Nigerian artistes in a single titled ‘Siestas Unite’.

She is involved in a lot of charitable acts including setting up theTMACC (The Mathematical African Children’s Charity).

FAMILY
May7ven brother, Junior Odegbami and sister Funmi Odegbami is the CEO of MINK Cosmetics LLP. She has other siblings, Tolu Odegbami, Steven Odegbami, Mo Odegbami and Tito Odegbami who live in Nigeria with their mother. Her father wore the Number 7 jersey when he played professional football, He had seven children, and the second child was born on the 7th as well and was called Mathematical seven.

PERSONAL LIFE
May7ven took the name ‘’May7ven’’ because of the power of the number seven in her family which included the fact that she was born on the 7th of May. She is a divorcee with three children.

ACIEVIEVEMENT
May7ven has also been a judge for several television reality shows in Nigeria including the Malta Guiness Street Dance Africa and has been nominated for several awards some of which are-

— 2009 Best Artist at the African Movie Awards

— 2010 Best African Artist in the Diaspora at the Museke Africa Awards

— 2010 Best African Artist in the Diaspora at the African Music Awards

— 2011 Best International Music Act by the Nigerian Promoters Association

— 2011 Best International Artist at the Nigerian Entertainment Award USA.

— 2012 Best Breakthrough Artist at the Nigerian Entertainment & Lifestyle Award

— 2012 Best UK Afrobeats Artist at the BEFFTA Awards

— 2015 Best UK Afrobeats at the Screen Nation Awards.

NET WORTH
Oluwayisi May Odegbami’s net worth is not yet available.