The song started off with Omi, the singer born Omar Samuel Pasley in the rural Jamaican province of Clarendon. (When Omi was born, Steve Winwood’s “Higher Love” was the #1 song in America.

Jaehn, whose previous remix credits include Omi’s 2014 song “Cheerleader,” speeds up the pacing of Swift’s song to create an EDM-influenced intensity. Still, the autotune and instrumental ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Jamaican singer OMI may seem like an overnight success, but his chart-topping summer hit, “Cheerleader,” has been years in the making. He started working on the reggae-pop ...

OMI has scored a last-minute victory in the singles chart, earning this week's number one with 'Cheerleader'. The reggae-pop track overtook midweek leader Carly Rae Jepsen and knocked last week's ...