Tyrone Grandeur

Triumph Grandeur (known professionally as Tyrone, born 1 August) is a Nigerian record producer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, music director, creative writer and trainer. His love for music started at age 9 when he learned to play various musical instruments such as drums, piano, and guitar. He grew to become a music producer in Nigeria, producing popular tracks like Olamide’s multi-award-winning ‘Voice of the Street’ in his 2012 YBNL Album; Reminisce’ Baba Hafusa, Grind and award-winning ‘Local Rappers’ which featured Olamide & Phyno. He has worked with other Nigerian artists including 2Face, Rugged Man, Wande Coal, M.I Abaga, Vector, May D, Brymo, Solid Star, D'Prince, DJ Xclusive, Shank, Tilaman, Skales, Taiwon, Del City, Eben, and Jahdiel. He’s also one Nigerias most respected radio personalities currently working as the corporate brand manager and group head of Production in one of Nigeria’s biggest radio corporation group, CoolFM, Wazobia FM & Nigeria Info and most recently Arewa radio. He is the sound coordinator for Wazobia TV and Wazobia Max. He has trained artists in voice-overs, singing, and production. Tyrone was born in Delta State, Nigeria and spent his early life there before moving with his parents to Lagos. He attended the University of Lagos and obtained a BSc in Microbiology. He started his career in production as a student of Unilag where he joined a music group, Rock Solid, and was an active member with the likes of Nollywood actor, OC Ukeje and singer J’odie (Kuchi Kuchi) amongst other members- this same group which produced KUSH, one of Nigeria’s R&B/contemporary bands at the time. He later became HOD of the group. At the earliest part of his music career, he co-founded a record label, Beatmap, with John Black with member Artists Zeal, Goldie and DelCity. Tyrone officially pulled out of the record label a few years later to pursue his personal career. In 2015, he produced Reminisce’ ‘Local Rappers’ that featured Olamide & Phyno. This track won ‘Best Hip-Hop Track in the TooXclusive Awards 2015. He produced 2 other tracks, ‘Baba Hafusa’ and ‘Grind’ on Reminisce’ third album, Baba Hafusa, an album that sold over 500,000 copies in Nigeria in 2 weeks. This album is one of the most successful hip-hop albums in Nigeria. He was one of the producers of Olamide’s YBNL Album that won Best Rap Album of the Year and Album of the Year in The Headies 2013, and also won Best Album of the Year in the 2013 Nigeria Entertainment Awards. In this Album, Tyrone personally produced ‘Voice of the Streets’. This track was nominated Lyricist on the Roll in The Headies 2013 and Music Video of the Year in the 2013 Nigerian Entertainment Awards. Tyrone produced DJ Xclusive’s Kontrol remix featuring W4, Ara remix featuring Brymo and No Time in the Album ‘According to X’ which featured May D, Tillaman, and Skales. Tyrone was one of the producers of Goldie’s 2012 Album, Gold Reloaded; Ruggedman’s ‘Untouchable’ Album released in 2010; Vector’s album, ‘The Second Coming’. Other music artists Tyrone has produced for include DelCity, MBryo, Pepenazi, Bebe Sumtin, popular gospel Artists, Eben and Jahdiel. In 2014, news sources reported that the beat for Olamide’s biggest hit, Durosoke was originally produced by Tyrone but he was not credited for co-production because the artist’s frequent music collaborator, Pheelz allegedly re-modelled the beat and took full credit for the song production. However, Tyrone and the artist, Olamide have long moved past the issue as they still work closely together.