Roadrunner Alumni
Unconventional Artistry:
Meet Ehiorobo Igiehon 鈥17
By Diane Couzens |聽 Spring 2026
Ehiorobo Igiehon 鈥17 was a music major with a concentration in music production and industry. An alternative R&B vocalist, musician and producer from Brooklyn by way of New Jersey, he is known for his unconventional vocal style, often blending expressive crooning with poetic asides, as well as his eclectic range of stylistic output. Igiehon has been a supporting act on various North American tours of electronic and indie-pop artists such as Mothica, Robotaki, Flamingosis and Blockhead. His debut LP, 聽鈥淟imeade鈥 (2016 via DESKPOP), is an intimate collection of songs. Igiehon returned to Ramapo in 2019 as a guest artist in the RAMIX Recordings Showcase as part of the Les Paul Music Festival. In 2021, Igiehon produced three standalone singles and an LP titled 鈥淛oltjacket鈥 via Grind Select/Fat Possum Records. The LP was dubbed Bandcamp鈥檚 聽鈥淎lbum of the Day鈥 shortly after its release. In spring 2023, Igiehon released his long-in-the-works collaborative LP with sample-based hip hop producer Flamingosis titled 鈥淏liss Station.鈥 Igiehon is also a theater design consultant for acoustics and AV with Harvey Marshall Berling Associates.
QUESTIONS & ANSWERS
with Ehiorobo Igiehon 鈥17
What made you decide to pursue music?
From my childhood and throughout high school, I鈥檇 been songwriting and producing music as well as sharing creative projects of mine in whichever ways I could. For several years as a teenager, I made sample-based hip-hop/rap music under a different alias that had amassed a small listenership/viewership on YouTube. I remember having a string of particularly affirming moments – sharing my work on YouTube, getting the opportunity to have conversations with folks in the music industry and feeling as if I鈥檇 made some meaningful progress on my craft – all in my late teenage years. It felt personally exciting and true to my interests to allow myself to both study music production academically and also make time to work in studio spaces. I also grew up as an avid churchgoer so I feel that I naturally grew some kind of comfort with singing in public and was thoroughly exposed to the idea of uplifting musical energy pretty early on in my formative years.
Do you have a favorite experience or memory from Ramapo?
There are two: first, going to the Birch Mansion and recording on the Steinway baby grand piano in the York Room. Second, working on indie film and animation screenings that my friends and I organized in each other鈥檚 dorm rooms and in spaces around campus.
Igiehon joins Flamingosis on stage at Brooklyn Steel
Who at 海角社区 had the greatest influence on you, and what did you learn from them?
Professor Emeritus Ben Neill had a great impact on me while I was in the music program. He encouraged everyone to be a pluralist capable of meaningfully contributing to people鈥檚 projects in a multitude of ways. He espoused and demonstrated important pillars, including creating true sense of community in a cultural hub, sustaining one鈥檚 regular artistic practice and output, and maintaining a self-guided holistic sense of education and learning about the world.
What skills that you learned at 海角社区 do you still use today?
File maintenance, studio professionalism, hopeful and heartfelt cold e-mailing, and reading and writing chord charts.
Your career has been an eclectic mix in the music industry. When you reflect, what moments have most resonated with you?
There are definitely a few. Professionally, I鈥檓 really proud of my work contributing original music and soundtracking to episodes and the theme song of Lupita Nyong’o’s Webby award-winning podcast, 鈥淢ind Your Own鈥; doing an official remix for Foster the People via Columbia Records; and celebrating the 10-year anniversary of my debut album, 鈥淟imeade,鈥 with special shows and a vinyl release.
I鈥檓 also proud of a hobby I鈥檝e turned into something really meaningful. For two years in a row, my partner and I have hosted a livestream retro video-gaming marathon on Twitch fundraising. We played through and beat The Lion King (SNES) in one sitting, and viewers were asked to donate to the Sudan Relief Fund and the Khartoum Aid Kitchen, two nonprofit organizations dedicated to providing food and other basic relief in Sudan. The medium of video games has always inspired me artistically and musically, and gaming has had a pretty sizable impact on my artistic projects within electronic music scenes. Both I and my partner are first-generation Americans born to African immigrants, so we were inspired to find ways to support African communities while also giving ourselves a fun gaming challenge.
What advice would you give to students or anyone who is looking to follow your path?
Attend events and connect with a specific community of peers that inspires you the most. Figure out a way to meaningfully contribute to their space and make real human connections.