oH! The Artist puts his heart (and everything else) on the line for love in his emotionally revealing new single and video Risk It All — showcasing today on Tinnitist.
The Toronto R&B soul-barer is on a quest to bring sincerity back single-handedly with his latest release. With an openness and vulnerability that could make any lady’s heart melt, our hero admits how hard it is to commit to love in a world that’s full of traps and fakes. But he’s real, dammit, and he’s looking to get with a girl who’s real too — ideally, the one who’s standing right there in front of him:
“I’m ready and I’m able
Wanna turn the tables, girl
I’m scared but I’m ready for us, yeah
I’m ready to risk it all.”
As if the message weren’t disarming enough, the music is compelling to the point of hypnosis. Risk It All is a sinuous, sumptuous slow jam, of the kind a million closing-time DJs were starting to worry they didn’t make anymore. No wonder oH! has anointed it as the title track to his debut EP, an eight-song statement of intent that’s going to firmly establish him as music’s new paragon of smooth sensitivity.
“I’ve always wanted that full, lifelong, fulfilling, heart-bursting, transcendent love that everyone desires in this life,” he says. “The only way to get there was to write it and believe that I was capable of it. I love love. There’s nothing more amazing.”
oH!’s EP campaign got underway in October with first single The Greatest (You and I). The song charted everywhere from Canada, the U.S., and the U.K. to Australia, Belgium, Germany, India, Ireland and North Macedonia; in South Africa, it went all the way to No. 2. The video has more than three million views, with a presence on over 350 playlists.
Raised in his parents’ record store, oH! was performing on Sesame Street and mastering Whitney Houston’s The Greatest Love of All by age seven. His teen years were spent with the group The Show, releasing records and touring Canada with Usher, Yung Buck, Ginuwine and 98°. Along the way, he earned a Canadian Urban Music Award and two Juno nominations.
oH!’s coming-out party as a solo artist came on the final season of Canadian Idol, where he placed in the top 16 and drew a rare standing ovation for his performance of Bill Withers’ Ain’t No Sunshine. Now, oH! is gearing up for his first national solo tour, cementing his status on the Canadian music scene.
Watch the video for Risk It All above, hear more from oH! The Artist below, and find him on his website and Instagram.
