Twins Affair

Twins Affair, made up of Twin brothers born as Taye Damilola Olusola and Kehinde Rotimi Olusola on 14 April 1988 are Recording artistes, Music producers and journalists. The group is one of the Nigerian's top duet artistes that has been ranked next to P-Square, African No 1 hip-hop duet artistes.[1] and are also among the few top Nigerian artistes that produce their own songs.[2] As trained journalists, the Twins Affair floats an online Entertainment news website TWINS GIST ONLINE MAGAZINE.[3]

The duo of Taye Damilola Olusola and Kehinde Rotimi Olusola (Twins Affair) who are the only children of their parents have not only been doing things together but they have been classmates in all the schools/institutions they attended, such as the Family Support Primary School, Kabba, Kogi State from 1993–1998; St Barnabas Secondary School Kabba, Kogi State from 1998–2004; Delta State University, Abraka, Nigeria from 2005-2010 (B.A Hons Music);International Institute of Journalism, Abuja Nigeria, from 2013-2014 (Post Graduate Diploma in Journalism). The duo also did a 3 months Music production course in 2011 at Life Line Studio, Allen Avenue, Lagos under the tutelage of an ace music Producer, T.Y Snoop who is one of the producers of Mr. Olu Maintain.

The Twins Affair's involvement in music is at the instance of their multi-instrumentalists father, Mr. Olusola Ogungbemi who taught them how to play the Keyboard, Guitar, Drum set and Saxophone at the age of four. At the age of 9, Taye and Kehinde were the keyboardist and Bass Guitarist respectively of the Living Faith Church Worldwide, Kabba, Kogi State, Nigeria.

Twins Affair recorded their first album in 1999 tagged “Egunje has sploit everything”. The album which was produced by music Producer/Musicologist, Austin Emielu, senior lecturer at the University of Ilorin, Nigeria[4] became an instant hit. The success of the maiden album spurred the Twins Affair to go to the studio a year later in 2000 to record another album tagged “Why fighting, why killing” in response to the religious conflicts in the then Northern Nigeria. The two albums released by the Twins Affair did not accord the group national recognition as its popularity was only confined to about six states in the North out of the 36 states in Nigeria. The frustration of the inability of the group to penetrate Lagos, which is the nerve centre of music/entertainment in Nigeria, compelled her to go on sabbatical.

In their second year in the University (2008), the Twins Affair came out with an Album tagged ‘AREA’. The album however flopped due to poor publicity and the unserious attitude of the marketer. This was followed some months later by the release of an audio and video single tagged 'SKELEBE'. Although the video was aired on local and international television stations, Twins Affair was still not given proper recognition it deserved in the Nigeria music industry.

In 2010, the Twins Affair released an audio and video single tagged ‘ASA’.[5] The single became an instant hit. This was followed by another hit single and video in 2011 tagged ‘O bad gan’.[6] With these two singles, the Twins Affair became a household name in the Nigerian music scene. The Twins Affair has also featured and produced many top Nigerian artistes such as LKT,[7] Yung6ix,[8] Slay, Aq, Maytronomy, Nene Johnson, Ms Chief, Nenjazi a Nigerian American-based artiste just to mention a few.

In the area of music education, Twins Affair taught at the prestigious PEFTI Film Institute Lagos, Nigeria[9] owned by the doyen of Nigerian entertainment industry, Wale Adenuga Production (Super Story) from 2012 until 2013 where they resigned their appointments as Music Lecturers/Studio Music producers[10] to enable them proceed to International Institute of Journalism, Abuja for a one-year Post -Graduate Diploma in Journalism. The Twins Affair is a force to be reckoned with in Nigeria either as Music Producers or a Recording Artistes. Their recent works such as BEAUTIFUL ft. M kel,[11] GO THERE,[12] and MELODY ft MS. Chief and Nenjazi attest to this fact.