GLO X-Factor Winner DJ Switch: 23 Sep 2013 Font Size: a / A 210913F.Obianuju-Udeh.jpg - 210913F.Obianuju-Udeh.jpg Obianuju Catherine Udeh The hypnotic appeal of watching the winner of Glo X-Factor 2013, Obianuju Catherine Udeh, popularly known as DJ Switch, speaking with passion about her heartfelt dreams is both captivating and instructive. It reveals years and studious efforts spent preparing for this kind of big prize, writes Lanre Alfred There is a lot about DJ Switch that really steals under your skin at your first encounter with her: she is self-assured and yet not given to flightiness. She has the gift of enabling you to explore yourself many times over. In a more romantic era, she would have been a painters delight, with her striking persona and exuberance. Shes not just another pretty face, but soon her face will be everywhere you look. Thanks to Globacom. DJ Switch’s spiritedness however, doesnt emerge out of nowhere. It is formed and defined with experience and time. There is no denying that she methodically takes that spirit, and combines it with a clinical approach to life. She personalizes that spirit and creates a worthy disposition and personal cultural ethic out of it. And what makes up that spirit? Ethics, passion, creativity, freedom, the willingness to take risks. Udeh is a young woman who has done things her own way and still loves to do it her own way, standing completely and absolutely by the values she believes in. Expectedly, she beamed and relished the honour with decent abandon that you could feel and grab the rapture of victory. Initially, you could easily notice the trepidation of the contestants but when the winner was announced, the display of joy was infectious. ‘My Victory Proves God Answers Prayers’ “I’m short of words. I don’t know really, I never thought I would win. It was amazing. And this victory has proved to me that God answers prayers,” she said. Looking directly into her mothers eyes from the stage with a repentant demeanour, she preceded her performance at the final with apologies to a mother she had not seen for about a year. I have been away from home pursuing music. Mummy, Im so sorry. I promise to do you proudly this evening, she profusely begged her visibly elated mother to understand what passion has turned her into. Only passion and nothing else could have taken a sane mind from a well paying job at Halliburton. Clearly, nothing as simple as talent, determination and God’s grace or any ordinary combination of these qualities could excite the X-Factor winner with such requisite much as she affects in her ‘X-hilaration’ over her new status. “I’m now glowing”, she said. How She Adopted Stage Name DJ Switch Nobody knows DJ Switch more than herself. Born 29 years ago, Obianuju adopted the stage name DJ Switch because of her versatility and ability to switch from one thing to another. She is a University of Port Harcourt Geology graduate from Udi, Enugu State, and is now a professional DJ. She grew up in Warri, Delta State, but lives in Abuja. Her father is late and she is the last of eight children. “I have my trust in God. I believe everything happens the way it is meant to be and I am confident,” she enthused. She bears deportment and ethical fibre characteristic of a very few aged and well-heeled artistes. That is what makes her different and seemingly defiant of every artistic stereotype arbitrarily foisted on most of her peers. Flaunting a rich and undeniably compelling occidental drawl, she enthused about her professional dreams, projecting among other things, that boundless optimism and vivacity that are at once necessary armours against the daunting blows of fate. Such buoyancy and depth no doubt, are resultant from the rich medley of her enviable background, education, exposure and open-mindedness. Curiously, however, when DJ Switch put in her application at the just wrapped up ‘Glo X-Factor,’ little did she know that luck was lurking somewhere around the corner waiting to smile on her. With the sea of heads, which thronged the different regional venues of auditions for the world’s number one music singing talent reality television show, which berthed in Africa for the first time courtesy of Globacom, even the most courageous of men would have their bravery shaken with the sight of the mammoth crowd. Tags: Entertainment, Featured, Gliteratti, Life, X-Fac
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