Omar Samuel Pasley, better known as OMI (b. September 3, 1986, Clarendon) is a Jamaican singer, who has seen his dream of being famous become true by being incredibly patient.
After moving to the capital Kingston and getting to know the dance-hall patron Clifton Dillon, frequent collaborator of him in the songwriting process, he started recording his first original pieces of among them, there was “Cheerleader,” released in 2012, which wasn’t a proper breakout single at first, as it became a national minor hit and, outside of Jamaica, it was popular only in Hawaii and in the United Arab Emirates.
Two years later, the song came to the ears of Patrick Moxey, owner of the dance empire Ultra Music, who decided to relaunch it by releasing a remix, commissioned to the then 20-year-old German producer Felix Jaehn.