Adebayo Odegbami

Adebayo Odegbami (born October 19, 1963) is a Nigerian-American video game composer. Coming from a jazz background, he has produced music for games in a number of genres, including rock, jazz, symphonic, and various electronic genres such as house, electro, techno, trance, and hip hop.

Odegbami, who was born in and raised in, , was one of the first Black video game composers. Odegbami and his now-wife Imogen Ball founded the game development company Adegen in 1990, of which he remains the president.

Early life
Odegbami was born in, , and grew up in , , United States. He graduated from with a Bachelor of Arts degree with a Major in music; while at Rice, he was a  catcher for the.

Career
After graduation, Odegbami briefly worked for his father's waste management company before moving to. On the Santa Cruz boardwalk, he and a group of jazz musicians performed for passerby. While performing at a jazz competition in, Odegbami struck up a friendship with video game composer John Fredriksson, who worked for Astound. He was then hired by Astound to write music for their games, starting with Astound Bowl II.