Obvious Bane

Who is obvious? What is his power? Simply, Obvious is a composer of brilliant, innovative music that matters in the marketplace. Obvious has a strong artistic self-awareness and identity. Through painstaking dedication, he has acheived a multi-faced mastery as an engineer, composer, lyricist, vocalist, and transcendent musician. Refusing offers from music machines that have desired to make him in to a gangster rapper or thug hip-hop hit-maker, Obvious has maintained genuine artistic integrity by holding that his music is not for one race or class. Whether working within genres or crossing between them, Obvious composes and performs from a motivation that stems not from himself but for other people. His life has been dedicated solely to becoming an artist with the power to express the common truths that all people hold. Even when dejected and homeless at one point in his life, Obvious found ways to make music. This life experience has enabled him to create that which fuses artistically with the most powerful dynamics of human potential. Not limiting himself to hip-hop and rap, Obvious is a composer in the best tradition of every generation's artistic vanguard- those who have drawn from their contemporaries but transcended modern structure to create something outside of the box which touches the timeless elements of the human soul. By tapping into the universality of music, Obvious wants to be heard in a world-wide format which, he believes, has a niche market for powerfully innovative expression. "Music is the outlet...the mode...there is no way that, if you listen, you won't see the potential of what is there in front of you...", he says. Listen.