Sarz Is Not Your Mate.

Sarz describes his entry into the music scene as a mistake; attributing his love for music and his ability to remember a beat in detail after hearing it piqued his interest in music production, Osabuohien Osaretin better known by his stage name Sarz, is a Nigerian record producer and musician. Born in Benin City, Edo State.

His production discography boasts of some of the biggest hits in the country from time, Sarz has worked with the A-listers, the industry's creme de la creme and if history permits, Sarz is one of the greats himself.

Starting out professionally in 2007 with his first full production credit being Lord Of Ajasa's See Drama, since then he has gradually positioned himself as one of the authorities of music production in Africa. He's creative and he expresses it In his beat

One of the events that heralded Sarz incoming greatness was at The Nigerian Entertainment Awards in 2012, where he was nominated alongside Don Jazzy for the producer of the year award, Jazzy won, but ended up giving it to Sarz, Jazzy saw what many people believed.



From 2007 till date, Sarz has produced an insane amount of hits, he produced Jahbless's Jor oh, the remix too, he produced Shank's 'Salut' & 'Ghetto', Eldee's 'Today Today' & 'Wash Wash', Goldie Harvey's 'Dont Touch My Body', Reminisce's 'Kako Bii Chicken', Dagrin's 'Kondo', YQ's 'I Like Girls' and Niniola's smash hit single 'Maradona', his list of hits run endlessly.

He dropped his single Beat Of Life (Samba) which featured Wizkid and also produced two songs (Jaiye Jaiye and Kilofe) off Wizkid's Ayo album, making pacesetting moves he dropped his EP SINYM( Sarz Is Not Your Mate) in 2019, a rare feat among Nigerian producers at the time.

Similarly, he collaborated with WurlD to put out an EP they called 'I Like Girls With Trouble', which got positive reviews from critics around the country.

In a word, Sarz, in 13 years has polished his sound, evolved with it, and positioned himself as one of the authorities of music production in Africa.

Listen to his EP below.

SINYM (Sarz Is Not Your Mate)