Tom Lucent

BIO

Thomas Odhiambo Oduor, known professionally as Tom Lucent , is a Kenyan rapper, singer songwriter and record producer from Nairobi Kenya. He rose to mainstream fame in 2021 following the release of his fisrt Album l Faith In Lyrics becoming one of the most prominent figures in the kenyan hiphop scene.Tom Lucent was born on 8 June 1997 in Mukuru Kwa Reuben, Embakasi District in Nairobi, Kenya.
Tom Lucent attended his early education in the nearby Reuben Primary School, growing up Optmus was mostly am avarage student and had alot of interest in sports mostly football, All the while he was listening to hip hop music at the time his elder sister use to play alot of hip hop music
When he was around 11/12 years old his father left the family leaving his single mother to raise him, his brother and two sisters.
But Tom Lucent never really took alot of interest in music untill he finished his primary school education in 2011 at these time he was fourteen years old. And had just broke his arm while playing football in the school playground after he just finished K.C.P.E
While waiting to go to highschool is when Tom Lucent wrote his first songs.
While in highschool Tom Lucent was perfoming at highschool functions. This was between 2013 and 2014  in Ridgeways boys Academy.
In 2015 he was transferred to Eastleigh High School in Eastlands, Nairobi. At these time Tom was perfoming at the local church every sunday on poetry and sometimes would collaborate with friends on such perfomances. In 2016 he finished highschool.
In 2017 Tom joined college NIBS (Nairobi Institute Of Business Studies) Where he studied Diploma in Accounting all the while still practicing his passion in music as part-time. In 2018 he finished his Diploma and was supposed to proceed with his studies but he dropped out but did not inform his mother so in 2019 he paid for his first studio session with his school fees and recorded his first song "First Step" But did not release it due to other complications he had at the time.
In 2020 he went back to studio re- recorded that song and on 1 April 2020 released his first song First Step which would later on be the first song in his first Album "Faith In Lyrics" and uploaded the Video-Audio on youtube. On 6th July 2020 he released his second single Top Dawg. On 11th September He released his third song titled Monday with reference to his 23 bithday which was on Monday 8 june 2020 on the song Tom puts most of his focus on his music, he even goes as far as considering music as his main husstle on his lyrics "Walking on beats with lyrics im blessed, hits after hits now they asking whats next, Im feeding the country with lyrics releaving they stress,Young and hungry need to get me more cheques". On 2 October 2020 Tom released his fourth single Rockstar. And had planned to release his first Album in 2020 but postponed it to the next year becouse at the time he was struggling with alot of personal issues
On 4 December 2020 he released his fifth single and last song for 2020 called Don't Get Close which mostly talked about the spot he had secured in the rap scene in Kenya claiming that no other rappers in Kenya can get close to his style.
In January 29 2021 he released New Vibe. On March 5 2021 he released Happy For Life .
On 26 March 2021 he released his first Studio Album which featured four of his previous singles "First Step" " Top Dawg" "Monday" " Rockstar" and the rest were "Room For Improvement" " Run This Town" "Ghetto Kid" "Living Proof" "Find My Way" "Take You Home" "It's Tom On The Ones And Twos" "New Dawn" And "You Belong With Me". The thirteen track album had no guest features from other artists but still managed to gain Optmus a solid spot in the kenyan music scene