Gwannty: "My passion is my medical career, but music is my life."

Great Osesumen Onobun, better known by his stage name Gwannty, is a Nigerian artist who was born more than 20 years ago in Lagos into the Onobun family. Born in Edo State, Nigeria, he is the first of two siblings and began his musical career there before moving to the UK.
Gwannty claims that his love of music began when he was a child and attended church choir practices with his mother. He later pursued his passion by learning how to play various instruments in addition to drumming, but eventually realized that singing was his true calling.


Regarding his integration of his medical profession with music, Gwannty stated, "Entrying the music industry was not a simple task." assignment. My parents were more interested in my medical profession, despite my mother's involvement in music at church. However, my family supported my dreams and served as a source of great inspiration for my aspirations as an artist because of my enthusiasm and tenacity for music, which was evident in the amount of energy I put into it and the effect I could create with my talent. This gave me a good push, and I was able to pursue my dreams further after receiving that encouragement.

"Most people are curious about how I manage to balance my profession in music and medicine. Since it gives me peace of mind, music is my life, and I also love my profession as a doctor. I make an effort to maintain balance in both life I have, so that one doesn't affect the other, and I think I've been able to achieve that. Now, music is what I consider to be my everyday life because it's my way of expression and more, while my medical career is another service I'm passionate about and studied, and both careers fall under the umbrella of hospitality." He continued, "I entered a number of local music reality TV competitions, like the Edo State Living Faith Talent Hunt, where I placed second and first in the competition, Sound It Africa, where I placed fourth, and Atmosphere Reality TV Show, which launched my career and inspired me to pursue music professionally. I followed up with freestyles before departing Nigeria, unmarried.

"I would say that the major hurdles up-and-coming artists face are issues of finance and support but to me, they are challenges that push me to work hard and keep building with the little I have because I believe that as much as money is an important talent with hard work and consistency would always speak," Gwannty said, speaking about the difficulties faced by aspiring artists.