Muyiwa & Riversongz

Muyiwa Olarewaju is a British Singer Song writer Broadcaster, the first Christian artist in the UK honoured with an OBE by Buckingham Palace, the one who is more than most helping to popularise the form and bring it to a wider audience by mixing it up with elements of world music (from Africa, the Caribbean and Asia), soul, R&B and pop. He is also an experienced performer, broadcaster and presenter. In 2009 he became the first-ever international act to perform on America’s popular entertainment channel, BET, for the prestigious annual Celebration Of Gospel show. He is presenter of the Turning Point programme to an estimated global audience of 70 million and Sounds of Africa plus Jewels of Africa on Airlines like Lufthansa, Kenyan and more. With his group Riversongz he sold out Indigo2 at the O2 in London, and Evetim Apollo with 5000 people the first UK gospel act to do so, and he has played at the largest gospel music event in the world, The Experience, attracting a 500,000 strong audience. As a broadcaster, he has is Station Director of Premier Gospel and has won numerous awards, including Best Presenter at the Oasis Awards (2006), Best Radio Show and Best Contribution to Gospel Music at the Gospel Music Awards (2009). Muyiwa occupies a unique space as a leading gospel artist in the UK, a broadcaster and thought Leader “I’d like to be seen as the guy who, through music, shared the idea that there’s always hope.