About us

OHSOTRUE IS AN ARTIST MANAGEMENT FOUNDED BY SVEN FOBBE.

We offer creative career management and development to leading personalities of innovative character. Our team connect to partners in the entertainment
industry worldwide from record companys, booking agencys to key media, consult on a step-by-step career building and back up the artists business moves.

High profile artists of the jazz, electronic and soul scene are represented by our team. We believe that a strong personal relationship with the artist is the essence of a lasting success.

OHSOTRUE artists also implement all musical work from songwriting, recording to full musicproductions in our studios in Berlin, London, Oslo and abroad.

OHSOTRUE consults to major music companies like Universal Music,  Jazzland Recs. and the innovative download portal Gubemusic.

HISTORY

With over 15 years of musical experience from djing, playing in bands, various musicprodutions, the founder of OHSOTRUE music, Sven Fobbe, looks back on a versatile career of 10 years in corporate musicbusiness. Living in both major cities of Germany, Hamburg and Berlin, he early became infected by their musicscenes.

Fobbe started his career in the mid-nineties by promoting artists like Roni Size, Incognito, US3, Femi Kuti amongst trendy cd-projects like Verve Remixed and Gilles Petersons Worldwide cd series to the german press media, before marketing a huge variety of international jazzartists on labels like Verve, Jazzland Recordings and Concord Records.

He developed extensive marketingcampaigns for recent top jazzacts like Randy Crawford, Roy Hargrove, Salif Keita,  chart topping stars like Elvis Costello, Joni Mitchell, Curtis Stigers, George Benson & Al Jarreau, legends like Terry Callier, Dee Dee Bridgewater.

His strong roots in clublife manifested not only in curating a numerous amount of lifestyle and conceptional musiccompilations but also in his work as remix a&r for the german Verve department. Arranging remixes for the labels highlights by Henrik Schwarz, Nicola Conte, De-Phazz, New Sector Movements, Dzihan & Kamien were just the start for curating the long term project and exclusive remix collection MPS JazzReworks featuring the catalogue of the black forest label.

From 2005 to 2008 Sven Fobbe also shaped and organized the berlin based Verve Club nights showcasing the labels international jazzstars.
In summer 2007 he evolved the concept for and also hosted the Jazzland Summercamp. The norwegian electronicjazz label Jazzland Recs, founded by famous pianist Bugge Wesseltoft, showcased their labelrooster at the innercity beach and swimmingpool location of berlins trendy Badeschiff.

CONTACT
OHSOTRUE artists
Sven Fobbe (MD & Founder)
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