“High above the Los Angeles skyline and tucked away in the San Gabriel Mountains, I find myself on set of Omi’s newest music video. As I am chatting over blueberries with Ultra Music representatives and foreign models, I can’t help but reminisce about Omi’s legacy – his chart-topping, remixed single, ‘Cheerleader,’ that reigned the summer of 2015. It was the summer jam that was trapped in our minds and played on an endless loop on every radio station. Following the release of ‘Cheerleader’, we weren’t left with much from the Jamaican artist. I even considered him to fall victim to the curse of “one-hit-wonders”. But, to my ignorance, I shortly discovered how wrong I was. […]”
Written by: Allyson Borunda
Photographed by: Meagan Rafferty
Magazine: Flaunt
