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Omar Christopher Lye-Fook MBE (born 14 October 1968 in London), known professionally as Omar, is a British soul singer, songwriter and musician. Omar grew up in Canterbury, Kent. He learned his craft classically, playing the trumpet, piano and percussion. He also spent two years at Chetham's School of Music in Manchester, and the Guildhall School of Music in London. His most well-known song was his debut single "There's Nothing Like This". It reached number 14 in the UK Singles Chart on re-release in 1991. AllMusic noted that he is described by some as the father of British neo soul.

Below is a list of Omar songs, sorted by the most popular first. Place mouse on to see information about song. Click song title to play song and to read details about the song including lyrics (if available). Click year to list all songs from that year. Click label to list songs from that record label. Songs with chart position "---" either never made it into the US top 100 R&B or UK charts or we have no details of their highest chart positions if they did.

(Song are sorted in highest US R&B Top 100 and/or UK Top 100 chart position order)


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1 record label: Talkin Loud 9
chart position: UK #14, RandB #89
written by: Omar [Omar Hammer]
album: There's Nothing Like This
Omar There's Nothing Like This
1991 Talkin Loud
2 record label: BMG 74321535552(UK)
chart position: UK #37
written by: Hugh Cornwell, Jean Jacques Burnel, Dave Greenfield and Jet Black
album: This Is Not a Love Song
Omar Golden Brown
1997 BMG
3 record label: RCA 74321213982(UK)
chart position: UK #43
written by: Lamont Dozier and Omar [Omar Hammer] (as Omar Lye Fook)
Omar Outside
1994 RCA
4 record label: Talkin Loud 22
chart position: UK #47
album: Music
Omar Your Loss My Gain
1992 Talkin Loud
5 record label: Talkin Loud 512 401
chart position: UK #53
album: Music
Omar Music
1992 Talkin Loud
6 record label: RCA 74321 23367
chart position: UK #57
written by: David Frank and Omar
album: For Pleasure
Omar Keep Steppin'
1994 RCA
7 record label: Kongo Dance 5
chart position: UK #82
album: There's Nothing Like This
Omar I Don't Mind The Waiting
1989 Kongo Dance
8 record label: Oyster 2 (UK)
chart position: UK #91
written by: Omar and Stuart Zender
album: Best By Far
Omar Something Real
2000 Oyster
9 record label: RCA
chart position: RandB #109
album: For Pleasure
Omar Saturday
1995 RCA




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