Oumy Gueye, higher recognized below the pseudonym OMG, makes use of her voice as a “weapon” to combat for the way forward for her nation, Senegal, and its individuals.
A 31-year-old multi-awarded musician, OMG was born and raised in Senegal inside the culturally wealthy Lebou group. Fascinated by Beyoncé, Mariah Carey, and even Céline Dion she began acting at an early age and launched her first single – Hey Lady ! -at the age of 21 years previous, during which she sings in French, English, and Wolof.
Attainable
In her not too long ago launched album – Attainable (2022) – OMG continues to unfold consciousness about topics that matter to her. Greater than a singer, Oumy Gueye is an activist who fights for the way forward for her nation. In her track Attainable, she unfold a message of hope, calling for the youth to remain in Senegal and work in the direction of a greater future for the nation. With a weak state and plenty of younger, lively individuals fleeing Senegal to chase higher job alternatives elsewhere, the nation’s financial progress is compounded. In her album, she additionally expresses particular assist for Senegalese ladies. As one of many few ladies on the city music scene, she stands for ladies’s rights and denounces rape, undesired being pregnant, and feminine genital mutilation. In “Lionne Blessée”, she notably denounces home violence.
My Sahel, COP28 UAE
Persevering with her engagement, Oumy Gueye has taken half within the COP28 in Dubai. With six different musicians and fifteen visible artists, she took half within the “My Sahel” initiative, which goals to lift consciousness and funding for humanitarian motion throughout West Africa’s Sahel Area via music, visible arts, and web3 know-how. The Sahel area, of which Senegal is an element, is likely one of the most severely affected by local weather change. Mixed with the results of escalating conflicts, meals insecurity, and widespread poverty, the Sahel area is at the moment going through one of many world’s fastest-growing humanitarian emergencies. With the Malian singers Vieux Farka Touré and Amadou et Mariam, Oumy Gueye carried out “My Sahel” at COP 28 during which they raised consciousness concerning the humanitarian disaster and addressed a message of hope for the younger technology. Excessive warmth, flooding, and drought have induced a rise in inhabitants displacement. A phenomenon that OMG has personally skilled because the sea rise destroyed the home of her grandparents. OMG believes strongly within the younger technology to not repeat earlier errors. As she mentioned, “you could consider in one thing earlier than preventing for it” and thus she known as on the younger technology to not lose hope and to maintain preventing for the way forward for Senegal.
