Small spark.
Global
blaze.
Ten years ago we started with a borrowed mixing desk and one rule: the artist comes first. That rule still runs everything we do.
I am all three: a lord of the craft, a saint on the best days and a sinner the rest of the time. The songs keep the whole person.
Lord, Saint, Sinner began in 2016 with a borrowed mixing desk in Yaba and a first four-track EP recorded over one restless weekend.
The project grew by following the song: late sessions, cheap rooms, long walks home and the feeling that a rough idea might become a world.
Today it is still one voice, one catalogue and one ongoing conversation between the sacred and the reckless. Lagos and London are the coordinates; the music is the address.
Crown, halo,
flame
Our logo carries all three sides of the name: the crown for the lord, the halo for the saint and the grinning flame for the sinner. The badge signs off everything we release; the wordmark is how we announce ourselves.
Our values
Four principles written on the studio wall on day one. We’ve repainted twice; the words stayed.
Artist first
Every decision starts with one question: is this good for the artist’s long-term career?
Fair by design
Transparent royalty statements, plain-language contracts and master ownership that reverts.
Local roots, global reach
We build from scenes we know intimately, then take them to every stage in the world.
Play loud
We back originality over trends. If it sounds like everything else, it isn’t for us.
A decade
of noise
From a borrowed mixing desk to a festival for 40,000 people. The milestones that shaped us.
- 2016
The first spark
Lord, Saint, Sinner is founded in Yaba, Lagos. First release: the Kindling EP.
- 2018
First Gold record
KAIRO’s breakout single goes Gold in Nigeria and Ghana, funding our first full-time team.
- 2020
The words deepen
The writing turns inward, making room for the harder songs and the stranger truths.
- 2022
London calling
A second office and studio open in Hackney, alongside our First Light compilation.
- 2024
Heatwave Festival
Our own two-day festival launches in Lagos and sells out 40,000 tickets in its first year.
- 2026
Ten years, still independent
Starfall becomes our biggest release ever. We open Studio Ember, our Dolby Atmos suite.
Leadership team
Musicians, engineers, promoters and lawyers who fell in love with the same idea: that an independent label could be the best place in the world to make music.
Tolu Adeyemi
Founder & CEO
Grace Mensah
President, Lord, Saint, Sinner Records
Daniel Okafor
Head of A&R
Hannah Brooks
MD, London
Kwame Asante
Head of Live & Touring
Ifeoma Nwosu
Head of Publishing
Leo Martins
Head of Studio
Zara Bello
Head of Marketing
Want to build
with us?
We’re always looking for artists, writers and people who love music as much as we do.