Ayo Awosika is an LA based vocalist, composer, and multi-instrumentalist. She is also a vocal/performance coach, music director, and arranger. She has toured and sung background vocals for artists including Miley Cyrus, Sam Smith, Rob Thomas, The Chainsmokers, Danny Elfman, Dua Lipa, Lizzo, Carlos Santana, and Pentatonix, among others.

Ayo has shared the stage or opened for the likes of Richie Havens, Ryan Shaw, Peter Eldridge, and Esperanza Spalding and has also performed with the Colorado Symphony.

She has performed on The Today's Show, Saturday Night Live, The Tonight Show, Good Morning America, Jimmy Kimmel Live, The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, Ellen, BBC Radio 1 Live Lounge, and The Voice, as well as the UK's top music TV show, Later...with Jools Holland. In 2019, she had the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to be a vocalist in the choir heard throughout The Lion King film soundtrack. Since then her vocals have been recorded on scores for several TV shows and feature films like Minions 2, Nope, Creed III, Black Panther 2: Wakanda Forever, Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F, and Despicable Me 4. Ayo is a Berklee College of Music graduate.

Her debut album, “We Best Not Wait,” produced by Scott Jacoby (John Legend, Sia) was released in 2016.

In 2023, she was commissioned to compose and conduct a new choral piece for a 250 person choir that debuted at the 2023 Sister Singers Network Festival in Cleveland, Ohio. Since then she has been commissioned to compose several choral pieces for various groups in the US, as well as being invited as a guest artist to workshop, perform and guest conduct with these choral groups. The next one is with Cincinnati's MUSE choir at the end of April.

Most recently, she was a featured singer in Disney's 80s-90s Celebration at the Hollywood Bowl as well as a member of the choir for the 30th Anniversary Lion King Show.

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