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Gozi - It Isn’t Over For Me Yet (Official Video)

Imagine if Timbaland and Sophie produced for The Weeknd. Throw in some Prince-esque hypersexuality, Doja Cat’s quirky delivery and a disruptive sense of fashion, and you have Gozi. He is a singer, songwriter, producer and visual artist crafting future ready pop music from his Berlin bedroom.

Inspired by everything from modern trap to Kpop, pairing buzzing electronics with boy band-esque vocal harmonies, Gozi’s sound is decidedly contemporary and post internet - without boundaries or the limits of genre. Confessional lyrics cataloguing a lifetime of late night bad behaviour and an unmistakable husky vocal tone are an undeniable recipe for a pop icon in the making.

The new music video for ‘It Isn’t Over For Me Yet’ was completely self-directed and produced by Gozi for the first time. Filmed in Cuba in the last week of a 2 month trip, it was planned and shot in just 4 days with a photographer that he met at a nightclub as the cameraman (Fernando Ruíz).

Gozi says, “I did my own makeup, styled myself, sourced lighting, scouted locations and organised transport. Nando and I communicated using Google Translate because my Spanish was so bad. We filmed all over Havana, even sneaking onto a beach at night. Ultimately, however, my favourite piece of footage was a one-take phone recording from the photographer’s studio; I decided that this was the perfect video for the song. All of the effects were produced in-camera by shaking the phone to the music. After planning a spectacular video, the phone recording proved to me my ability to produce engaging work with absolute simplicity. No costume changes or dance routines. Just creativity, a phone and a good song.”

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