Rema · Spotify · Courtesy of Spotify
Person · Open Library
- Works
- 8
Top works
- Improving food access for poor households in Indonesia
- Promoting resilience in Colombia's emerging class
- Local communities do matter
- Reforming the intergovernmental transfer system to reduce regional disparities in China
- Nudging the participatory budgeting process
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- Nigeria
- Active from
- 2000-05-01
Discography
- Rema2019
- Freestyle EP2019
- Bad Commando2019
- Love in the Morning2019
- Dumebi2020
- Beamer (Bad Boys)2020
- 4am2020
- 4AM2020
- Ginger Me2020
- Woman2020
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 991,073
- Total plays
- 21,170,358
Tags
Rema (birth name Divine Ikubor) is a Nigerian afrobeat and hip-hop artist from Benin City, Edo State. His critically acclaimed EPs have changed the wave of hip-hop/trap in Nigeria, with the songs "Iron Man" and "Spiderman" were featured on Obama's music list in 2019, while "Dumebi" was a global hit. His debut album Rave & Roses was released on March 25, 2022. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Rema">Read more on Last.fm</a>
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Global Prevalence and Major Risk Factors of Diabetic Retinopathy
· 2012 · cited 3,961x
- Mutational landscape of metastatic cancer revealed from prospective clinical sequencing of 10,000 patients
· 2017 · cited 2,969x
- Phase 3 Trials of Solanezumab for Mild-to-Moderate Alzheimer's Disease
· 2014 · cited 1,426x
- A Phase 3 Trial of Semagacestat for Treatment of Alzheimer's Disease
· 2013 · cited 1,064x
- Axonopathy and Transport Deficits Early in the Pathogenesis of Alzheimer's Disease
· 2005 · cited 994x
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Key facts
- Born
- Divine Joshua Ikubor , ( 2000-05-01 ) 1 May 2000 (age 26) , Benin City , Edo, Nigeria
- Occupations
- Singer songwriter rapper
- Years active
- 2019–present
- Notable work
- Discography
- Awards
- Full list
- Origin
- Lagos , Nigeria
- Genres
- Afrobeats Afrobeat Afro - rave African hip-hop pop rap trap
- Instruments
- Vocals keyboards
- Labels
- Jonzing Interscope Mavin
- Website
- heisrema .com
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Wikidata facts
- Official website
- www.heisrema.com
- Image
- Rema at 2019 LFW (cropped).png
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- date of birth
- 2000-05-01
- birth name
- Divine Ikubor
- start of work period
- 2019-00-00
- pseudonym
- Rema
- social media followers
- 4830000
- Commons category
- Rema (musician)
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Divine Joshua Ikubor (born 1 May 2000), known professionally as Rema, is a Nigerian singer-songwriter and rapper. He gained recognition with his 2019 song "Dumebi". That same year, he signed with D'Prince's record label, Jonzing World. He achieved international recognition with his 2022 single "Calm Down", which spawned a remix with American singer Selena Gomez that peaked at number three on the Billboard Hot 100. The song also led the Billboard U.S. Afrobeats Songs chart for a record-setting 58 weeks.
That same year, Ikubor released his debut studio album, Rave & Roses (2022), which reached number 81 on the Billboard 200. His second album, Heis (2024), was preceded by the single "Benin Boys" with Shallipopi, and earned him his first Grammy Award nomination for Best Global Music Album at the 67th Annual Grammy Awards.