She did not show her face, but we heard her saying “they shot peaceful people; they just shot us for nothing. Please record this. Look at bullets, bullets everywhere; people are picking it from the floor. Please record this and share. We were able to escape because we went under a truck.”
DJ Switch is the woman who turned on her Instagram live video to show the world the aftermath of the horror in the form of bullets that was unleashed on unarmed peaceful protesters at the Lekki tollgate on Tuesday, 20th October 2020.
Her name is Obianuju Catherine Udeh, and even though she lived a great portion of her life in Delta state, she hails from Udi town in Enugu state.
She is the last child of eight children and she is a graduate of Geology from the University of Port Harcourt who chose a career in the entertainment industry as a Disc Jockey, song writer, and a musician.
If you followed the Star quest show back then in the early 2000s, you will recall that in 2009, a group called Da Pulse won the show and went on to release the song titled ‘so tey’ which featured Bursta rhymes in its remix.
DJ Switch was the rapper in that group, but when the group fell apart a few years after, she went on to be a solo artiste.
Her popularity leaped upwards in 2013 when she grabbed the whooping sum of N24 million as she emerged the first winner of the Glo X factor talent show, which also gave her a record deal with Sony music and Peter Okoye’s P-Classic record label.
From that time until now, DJ Switch has remained a phenomenal sensation among her colleagues (both male and female) in Nigeria and across Africa.
She won the City people award for best DJ in 2016 and in 2018 she was featured in CNN’s editorial titled: Nigeria’s female DJs spinning against stereotypes.
