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Iphy Chinedu Victor (born 16 June 1997), known professionally as O.L (sometimes styled as OL) is a Ghana-based Nigerian singer, songwriter and producer. His sound is a fusion of Afrobeats, RnB and Hiphop. O.L was born in Port Harcourt, Nigeria but relocated to Ghana in 2007.

Early Life
O.L was born in Port Harcourt, the largest and biggest city in Rivers State Nigeria. He was raised in an entreprenurial home. His mother owned small business and his father was an engineer. At age 10, O.L relocated to Ghana to further his educational endeavors. He attended Keta Senior High Technical School for his secondary education and completed Ghana Technology University College in 2018 with a degree in Information Technoology. During his upbringing, O.L was raised around music as his mother was a chorister and his father an music collector.

Music Career
O.L started recording music at the age of 15 during the latter part of his secondary school days. He started out as a rapper, recording music with his older brother with a laptop webcam audio due to the unavailability of a studio. His first commercial effort came later that yeat as a guest artiste on a gospel singer's song. During his time in the university, he ignited his music career fully and spent his free time, writing and recording songs with his classmates resulting to his first joint E.P with At'son (formerly known as Icekid) In 2017, he was signed into a record label (Renzel Music) and released 4 songs under the imprint titled; HIGH, HANGOVER, ONE CHANCE and JUJU featuring Kelvyn Boy. He also began producing at around the same time, producing 3 out of his 4 singles himself. His contract with Renzel Music was later terminated in 2018 ad he spent a short stint as an independent artiste. Under this stint, he released few renditions to popular songs which included; Sarkodie's Biibi Ba and Wizkid's Fever and King promise's Selfish. His Biibi Ba and Fever covers went viral with the latter shooting him into the spotlight and earning him commendations from various A-List Artistes with Mr Eazi being the most notable.

O.L's rendition of King Promise's Selfish earned him a spot in the coveted Empawa100 initiative as one of the top 100 emerging artistes from Africa to be funded by Mr Eazi. He released a song titled; RIHANNA. In the latter part of 2018, O.L was signed under GadOne Records and had gone on to release 2 hit songs under the label titled; SELASIE and SAGAWAGA with the former bagging a nomination in the Muse Africa "Introlude Song of the Quarter" category.