# Sly5thAve · Producer, Saxophonist, Arranger, Composer, Multi-instrumentalist · OBRA

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Sly5thAve · Sly5thAve is the project of Sylvester Uzoma Onyejiaka II, a Grammy award-winning multi-instrumentalist, producer, arranger, and composer born in Austin, Texas and raise

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## Sly5thAve

Producer ·   Saxophonist ·   Arranger

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# Sly5thAve

PRODUCER ·   SAXOPHONIST ·   ARRANGER ·   COMPOSER ·   MULTI-INSTRUMENTALIST

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Sly5thAve is the project of Sylvester Uzoma Onyejiaka II, a Grammy award-winning multi-instrumentalist, producer, arranger, and composer born in Austin, Texas and raised in Pflugerville with West African, soul, and jazz influences from his Nigerian father and Detroit-born mother. He studied at the University of North Texas, earned feature roles on Grammy-nominated recordings with the One O'Clock Lab Band, and was mentored by Philip Lassiter — who led to Sly joining Prince and the New Power Generation horn section for two years. He relocated to New York, where he became part of The Clubhouse in Brooklyn and Ghost Note, the acclaimed funk-soul collective featuring Snarky Puppy's percussion duo Robert 'Sput' Searight and Nate Werth. His orchestral rework of Dr. Dre's entire catalog, 'The Invisible Man: An Orchestral Tribute To Dr. Dre' (2017), earned the admiration of Dr. Dre himself and backing from Gilles Peterson, NPR, and The Fader. Recent releases include Liberation (2024) and Reason (2025), and he has collaborated with Questlove, Stevie Wonder, Freddie Gibbs, and Quantic.

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SLY5THAVE Portrait · 2017–PRESENT

▸ VERIFIED STREAMS 15.643.138 TOTAL · 16M

17 DAYS · Total

Releases 8

Years active 2017–PRESENT

This week  · ▲ 0.1% · 3K/day

Streams this week +20.842 16M TOTAL

Best day +104K Aug 15

Spotify +21K 100% OF TOTAL · 7D

YouTube — 0% OF TOTAL · 7D

SoundCloud — 0% OF TOTAL · 7D

FASTEST GROWING
Paradise ▲ 0.5%  Hold On We're Going Home ▲ 0.2%  Still D.R.E. - Edit ▲ 0.4%

Trending this week  · 5 climbing

Last records broken  · 3 milestones

Milestones  · 1 milestone

5.0M SONG · streams Hold On We're Going Home
Sly5thAve Aug 2026

Top tracks  · Ranked by streams · 8

Collaborators  · 1 artists

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Sly5thAve

8 tracks · 15.6M

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## OBRA BY SLY5THAVE

8 RELEASES

ROLE

### 2025

3 releases

### 2018

3 releases

### 2017

2 releases

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Bio

Sly5thAve is the project of Sylvester Uzoma Onyejiaka II, a Grammy award-winning multi-instrumentalist, producer, arranger, and composer born in Austin, Texas and raised in Pflugerville with West African, soul, and jazz influences from his Nigerian father and Detroit-born mother. He studied at the University of North Texas, earned feature roles on Grammy-nominated recordings with the One O'Clock Lab Band, and was mentored by Philip Lassiter — who led to Sly joining Prince and the New Power Generation horn section for two years. He relocated to New York, where he became part of The Clubhouse in Brooklyn and Ghost Note, the acclaimed funk-soul collective featuring Snarky Puppy's percussion duo Robert 'Sput' Searight and Nate Werth. His orchestral rework of Dr. Dre's entire catalog, 'The Invisible Man: An Orchestral Tribute To Dr. Dre' (2017), earned the admiration of Dr. Dre himself and backing from Gilles Peterson, NPR, and The Fader. Recent releases include Liberation (2024) and Reason (2025), and he has collaborated with Questlove, Stevie Wonder, Freddie Gibbs, and Quantic.

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