By Edwin Eriye
Nigerian disc jockey and producer, Florence Ifeoluwa Otedola, professionally known as Cuppy, has written Twitter owner, Jack Dorsey, seeking to share ideas with the bird-app boss.
The 27-year-old, in her tweet, claimed she’s the most engaged and fastest growing female from Nigeria on Twitter, hence, would like to chat with Jack Dorsey, necessary to share ideas.
Jack, in response, said ” he will set up a chat”.
Cuppy, who is the daughter of Nigerian businessman Femi Otedola, grew up in Lagos and moved to London at the age of 13.
The self acclaimed “most engaged Nigerian female on Twitter ” lived in Ilupeju for six years before moving to Ikeja where she attended Grange School, Ikeja.
She then relocated to London for her GCSEs and A-Levels. Cuppy graduated from King’s College London in July 2014, with a degree in business and economics. She earned a master’s degree in music business from New York University in 2015.
In 2014 Cuppy was the resident DJ at the MTV Africa Music Awards in Durban. She then played at the Tatler and Christie’s Art Ball in London, and at the Financial Times Luxury Summit in Mexico City.
In July 2014, she released House of Cuppy as her first compilation mix in London and Lagos, before launching it in New York on September 2, 2014.
With House of Cuppy, she produced EDM-esque remixes of songs by leading afropop artists.
That same year, Cuppy also launched the London-based music management and content production business, Red Velvet Music Group.
In 2020, Cuppy was inducted into the Forbes Magazine’s 30 under 30 class, as she became the host of ‘Africa Now Radio’ on Apple Music Beats, May 28, 2020.
She released Jollof On The Jet, which was her seventh single featuring Rema & Rayvanny,
On August 24 2020, She unveiled her debut album Original Copy which has shocked the industry with positive reviews and is a contender for the album of the year.
