Nik Shevchenko closes his eyes and starts to focus intently. He’s spent the last half hour or so telling me about his new product, an $89 wearable called Omi that can listen to, summarize, and get ...
OMI’s rise to No. 1 makes it official: This is the summer of the remix. Still from the video for “Cheerleader” Well, America, you certainly are consistent. One year—to the week—after the Hot 100 was ...
Before it was remixed into a sweeping global hit, OMI’s “Cheerleader” was something far more quaint. “It wasn’t even supposed to be a song,” the 28-year-old Jamaican vocalist born Omar Samuel Pasley ...
When it comes to chart battles, there can be only one winner, and OMI has raced ahead of his rivals to take the Number 1 spot for a second week. “I knew it was a good song when I recorded it but I ...
The pop charts have frightened me away in recent months, with offensive language like "haters gonna hate," "from the Fifty Shades of Grey soundtrack," and "featuring Drake," but I have just dipped my ...
This week in On the Verge, USA TODAY's spotlight on breakthrough artists, Brian Mansfield talks to Jamaican singer OMI. Won't stay incognito for long. On a recent flight, OMI noticed the woman next to ...