Queen Omega
QUEEN OMEGA – TOURED EUROPE IN 2022, 2023 & 2024 – PERFORMED ON OVER 40 FESTIVALS & CLUB DATES IN EUROPE & CANADA IN 2024 – PERFORMED ON THE JAMROCK CRUISE IN DEC 2024 – AVAILABLE FOR BOOKINGS
Queen Omega, born Jeneile Osborne, hails from San Fernando in Trinidad. She is currently one of the most sweet and powerful voices of the Caribbean. Encouraged by her mother, to whom she pays moving tribute on “Mama”, she began entering local talent shows from the age of nine, writing her own calypsos and even rapping on national television.
Later on she sang backing vocals for local producer Kenny Phillips, accompanying numerous top Soca acts both in the studio and on stage. Raised in a musical family, she grew up listening to soul artists like Aretha Franklin, Anita Baker and Whitney Houston, as well as jazz and the traditional music of Trinidad. Such foundations were to serve her well later. Her favorite genres, however, were reggae & dancehall.
Inspired by the teachings of Emperor Haile Selassie I, her song writing skills soon blossomed, with roots and reality themes coming to the fore as her love of Rastafari deepened. It was on a trip to Jamaica with the Solomon Band where she performed at the Caribbean Music Expo in late 2000 that she met producer Mickey D, who brought her to London the following year for sessions that resulted in her debut set, “Queen Omega”. This was followed by several hit singles and a second album titled “Pure Love”.
Queen Omega – Goodness
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Queen Omega – Make a Sacrifice (2013)
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Early 2004 JetStar released “Away From Babylon”, Queen Omega’s third and most accomplished album then, finding her still residing within Mickey D’s Green House Family. With these three albums and many well received live performances, Queen Omega blazed a trail for female roots reggae artists. She continued to do so with the brand-new collection of tunes. Under the wings of the very talented French production Bost & Bim and the label Special Delivery Music, she showed that she has improved her vocal delivery further. She mixes her standard singing with deejaying and is equally efficient at doing both. Besides that, she once again fully showcases her ability to write to the point message music.
Queen Omega maintains a consistency that the roots side of reggae has never had from a female artist. Some of her outstanding tracks are “Selassie I Know”, “Love Each Other”, “Me Beg Yu”, “Keep the Faith”, “No Retire”, the combination song with Buju Banton titled “Perfect Combination”, and the title track “Destiny”. Her distinctive voice, conscious lyrics and some real good riddims make for enduring music.
In 2008 Queenie, as she is fondly called by many, performed at many reggae festivals in North America including headlining the Northwest World Music festival in Eugene, Oregon. In 2009 she toured Brazil and France (Garence Reggae Festival with Don Carlos & Barrington Levy).
In 2010 Queen Omega recorded with Jah Sun on his Gravity EP and toured with Marcia Griffiths. 2011 saw her performing on tour in Portugal, Sweden, France and the French West Indies. With the release of a new LP produced by High Fly Music, 2012 was a major year for Queen Omega as she was on tour in France, Germany, La Réunion. She also received the Merlin Lynn Taitt Award for Music in 2012.
Since then Queen Omega continues to tour the Caribbean and Europe. She has performed on many of the largest Reggae festival stages such as Reggae Rising (USA), SNWMF (USA), JaSound (France), African Music Festival (Germany) and Sao Paulo (Brazil). On her More Love Tour in 2024 Queen Omega performed on many major festivals in the UK, Europe and Canada where she did over 40 shows and in December 2024 she performed on the Jamrock Cruise.
