Mavin Records founder, Michael Collins Ajereh, known professionally as Don Jazzy, has opened up about the spontaneous origin of the 2014 hit single ‘Dorobucci’, tracing its roots to a fun persona he adopted at Tiwa Savage’s wedding in Dubai.
In a recent interview on the Crea8torium podcast, the producer explained that while dressed in a suit for the occasion, he introduced himself to guests as Don Dorobucci.
According to him, the name circulated among guests and later gained wider attention after he posted a freestyle on Instagram.
He said: “We went to Tiwa’s wedding in Dubai but then I was wearing suit and anytime I am wearing suit i just normally introduce myself to people with an Italian name. In this wedding, I was telling everybody I am Don Dorobucci so Tiwa was like which one is Don DorobuccI.
“Everybody I met was like hello make way for don Dorobucci so as they started complaining which kind of name is that I’m like I’ll use it and make a song when you sing it”.
The clip prompted a dance challenge that spread across Nigeria before the full song was released.
On returning to the country, Don Jazzy said he saw the challenge growing and developed the freestyle into a track.
“Then I did the freestyle on instagram singing Dorobucci and people just started doing a challenge to it and I am like what is going on we came back to Nigeria I saw bunch of people doing the challenge and I just created a song to it”, he added.
Released under the Mavin crew, the song featured Tiwa Savage, Dr SID, D’Prince, Reekado Banks, Korede Bello, and Di’Ja.
It became one of the most played Afrobeats songs of its time and remained popular at events more than a decade later.
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