ThankGod Omori Jesam (born 8 June 1995) known professionally as TG Omori or Boy Director, is a Nigerian

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and

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Early life

ThankGod Omori Henry, hails from

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in Nigeria. Omori grew up in Agungi,

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, Nigeria from a middle-class background. He started directing at 15 while overseeing stage plays in his school and church. Omori was advised by his dad to be a waiter at a restaurant since nothing was going well for him at that time. Omori started making videos at the early age of 16, but took it up professionally at 20 after graduating from PEFTI Film Institute, making him the youngest professional filmmaker in Nigeria at the time.

Career

The

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, been in the industry since 2018 has directed music videos for recording artists across various genres of new generation, includes

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, Tekno, Kizz Daniel,

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, Falz,

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, Naira Marley, Asake and many others. In 2019, TG Omori was responsible for around half of the videos on the summer 2019 charts Count down on

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, Soundcity, and Trace. He directed videos for numerous musicians, including a controversial song by Naira Marley "Am I a Yahoo boy", "Totori" by

, and "Soapy" by Naira Marley which won viewers Choice at the 2020 Soundcity MVP Awards Festival. In 2019, he won video director of the year at

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and directed two videos in top 10 most viewed Nigerian music videos of 2019. In 2021, a video for the North African remix featuring ElGrande Toto was released on 4 November 2021. It was shot in

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and was directed by TG Omori, it surpassed 34 million views after a month of release on YouTube.

Fashion

TG Omori has appeared also as a fashion model and has featured on the runway of the prominent

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Lagos fashion week.

Videography

Awards and nominations

References

External links

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TG Omori on InstagramOfficial website
{{authority control Living people Nigerian cinematographers Nigerian music video directors 1995 births