Marvin Chisom Duru popularly known as M9 is a Nigerian musical artist who’s well grinded in rap music and afrobeats genre. He made some breath-taking hit music. A complete talent, well grinded in Singing, Rapping and Songwriting.
Though he has not been signed in any record label yet but he is doing very well as a solo artist. He is a pioneer of Orashi records, a name taken from the popular Orashi River around his place of birth. Also, M9 derived his name from the first letter of his firstname Marvin and for his love for playing football as a top striker, he took the 9 to come up with his musical artist stage name – M9.
- Born: 13th September, 1996, Port Harcourt, Rivers State Nigeria
- Native: Ogba/Egbema/Ndoni Local Government Area of Rivers State
- Siblings: Odinakachukwu Vincent Duru
- Parents: Mr Nwanne and Nnenna Duru
- Nationality: Nigerian
Early Life
M9 discovered a passion in entertainment in general during his early secondary school days when he was entertaining classmates, senior students and teachers in a comedy standup show. He was good at making others laugh even till date, but lost interest in comedy due to extensive mentorship and coaching. He was demoralised when always seen as an unserious person among his peers because he was entertaining them. He was baring ‘Roboscopo’ as stage name while into comedy during his junior secondary days.
Before the start of his senior secondary education, he discovered another amazing talent. He could sing and compose music for fun, just like comedy, his love for music was inevitable, he considered switching to doing music. That was a though decision to make, but he made up his to chase after music. Did a comic song ‘Oga Thomas,’ a potential hit he lost as a result of no management and lack of exposure to cloud storage services.
M9 continued doing music after completing his secondary education while in his hood Port Harcourt, by downloading free beats and making nice music with his laptop while in the house. Due to the level of his creativity, he was making music with Visual DJ, a popular software for DJs. He could record a song using headphone as microphone well using an earpiece to listen to himself and the instrumental. He’s one in a million, a creative and sensible talent.
He is raised by his mother, after been saparated from his dad from birth. He just has one sibling, who happens to be his elser brother.
Music Career
During his early time in music (2015), he was able to release some songs that were really pleasing to the ear with the technlogy mentioned in the previous paragraph. He lost many of those songs that would have blown him in that his early time into music. He managed to retain ‘Mega Star,’ while he lost songs like ‘Ghetto Life,’ etc, to broken system and corrupted memories.
M9 decided to go deep into music after discovering his passion in doing music. He was able to record; “Comot Body”, “Run Away”, “Pmw (Pour Me Water)”, Vex (Po-Po)”, “Your Waist”, “G.O.A.T.Y” and “Temperature / Sòsó”. All songs stated here are solo work, no vocal assistance or featured artist.
Discography
Studio Album and EPs
- Temperature/Soso (2023)
Selected Singles
| Year | Titled | Album |
|---|---|---|
| 2016 | Mega Star | Non-album singles |
| 2021 | Run Away PMW (Pour Me Water) | “ |
| 2023 | Vex (Po-Po) Your Waist G.O.A.T.Y (Greatest Of All Time Yo) | “ |
| “ | Temperature Soso | Temperature/Soso |
