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NEW Dumi Oburota events, a fashion line, label services and publishing. Media, Publishing & Entertainment
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Co-founder of Disturbing London Born to Nigerian parents in South London, Dumi grew up
with his brothers and sisters in a “fun house full of music”.
The son of an entrepreneurial landlord father and social
“I love music, I love fashion, I love trends. I am passionate worker mother, Dumi grew up with their driven and caring
about technology. These disciplines cannot commercially authorities while also being influenced by South London
survive autonomously – collaboration is our only way street culture. It’s this hybrid of inspiration that has shaped
forward. Disturbing London is here to do just that. his personality and the direction of his business.
Disturb. London. And then, the world. Challenging the A proud Londoner keen to champion the city’s
preconceptions of what the music and fashion industry opportunities, when Dumi reflects on his greatest moments
is all about, confronting social stereotypes and invisible to date, he recalls the Olympic Games in 2012. Tinie, his
boundaries perceived by those who are facing them and business partner, friend and client, closed the ceremony,
creating a better future – commercially, technologically a moment he describes as “the culmination of two guys
and socially.” having a dream and making it happen”.
So says Dumi Oburota, who co-founded 360 Well known for his interest in sartorial trends and
entertainment company Disturbing London with rapper a regular in GQ’s “best dressed” lists, Dumi is a keen
and songwriter Tinie Tempah in 2006. The company has purveyor of the fashion industry, an arena he believes will
since grown to encompass 360 music and culture services, become more boutique and shaped by “speed, truth, and
offering artist management and development, global agility”, due to the power of social media.

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