New music from tdotostudios

By day, Theo Davis is a medical doctor based in the UK, but by night, he moonlights as a Silver-Award winning music producer, working under the tdotostudios alias. Despite his strenuous and demanding career as a doctor, he’s managed to build up a stellar portfolio of sonic work over the years.

First finding success as a producer in 2014 with the track “Azonto” by Fuse ODG, Theo gained his first UK Top 30 hit, which has since racked up over 70 million plays on YouTube alone. Owing to the song’s pioneering sound of UK Afrobeats style, since then Theo has worked on championing the sound with his own take on Afro-Lofi music that draws on the traditional Afrobeat rhtyhms and blends them with a hazy lo-fi atmosphere to create an original upbeat and laidback vibe.

Other notable works by Theo include producing for Nigerian-British artist IsaacO, clocking over a million streams of his work on Spotify and securing spots in the platform’s editorial playlists as well as an invite to the Spotify HQ in London for the artist himself. He’s also collaborated with the Hans Zimmer and Pharrell Williams-headed plug-in company UJAM, to create the tracks “JIREH” and “Adonai” for their Virtual Pianist plug-in and Reggaeton Beatmaker software.

With his own music, he lays down his own take on the Afrobeats style which he was so instrumental in developing. Bringing us a taste of his original sound, he shares his recent track called “AFUA”, taking its title from a female Ghanaian name which means ‘born on Friday’.

An artist of Ghanaian descent, as tdotostudios he links to his heritage and plays on the beauty of the country as well as the resulting spread of culture from migration from the continent. Full of rhythm and breezy melodic leads, with “AFUA”, tdotostudios creates an uplifting Afrobeat jam that serves to showcase his talent as a composer as well as a producer.

Listen to AFUA below