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, and many others.

Early life

Buari Olalekan Oluwasegun was born on April 2, 1987, to the family of Mr. and Mrs. Buari in Lagos State, Nigeria. He is a cousin to the Ace Music Video director DJ Tee

Career

Since 2011, he has worked for many musical artists in directing their

music video A music video is a video of variable duration, that integrates a music song or a music album with imagery that is produced for promotion (marketing), promotional or musical artistic purposes. Modern music videos are primarily made and used as a m ...

s, prominently

. In 2015, he won Best Director at the

2015 Nigeria Entertainment Awards The 2015 Nigeria Entertainment Awards was the 10th edition of the Nigeria Entertainment Awards. Wizkid won the most awards while Olamide received the most nominations with three across 39 award categories. Kiss Daniel won the Best New Act to Watc ...

, and won Best Music Video at

The Headies 2015 The Headies 2015 was the 10th edition of The Headies. It was held on January 1, 2016, at the Landmark Events Centre in Victoria Island, Lagos. Themed "Flip the Script", the event was hosted by Bovi and Kaffy. It was previously scheduled to hold ...

, and also earned a nomination at

All Africa Music Awards All Africa Music Awards (also referred to as AFRIMA) is an annual awards event. The awards event was established by the International Committee AFRIMA, in collaboration with the African Union (AU) to reward and celebrate musical works, talents ...

. In 2016, he was nominated at

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and

2016 Nigeria Entertainment Awards The 2016 Nigeria Entertainment Awards is the 11th edition of the Nigeria Entertainment Awards. Hosted by Richard Mofe Damijo and Ebbe Bassey, the event was held on September 4 at the BMCC Tribeca Performing Arts Center in New York City, U.S ...

for Best Music Video. In 2017, he won Best Director of the year at the

City People Entertainment Awards City People Entertainment Awards are an annual accolade presented by ''City People Magazine'' to honour Nigerian and Ghanaian entertainers. The first edition was held in Abeokuta, Ogun State on June 14, 2009. The event was hosted by Governor Gbe ...

Videography

Commercials

* Essenza Beauty * Galaxy Note 9 * Omaha Electronics * Legend Extra Stout * Gala * Glo

Awards and nominations

References

External links

* Living people Nigerian film directors Nigerian cinematographers Nigerian music video directors 1987 births {{Nigeria-cinematographer-stub