Octavian

Octavian Oliver Godji (b. 22 January 1996), known better as just Octavian, is a British-French rapper, singer, and songwriter.

Role in Gorillaz
Octavian provided vocals for the track Friday 13th from Gorillaz' seventh studio album Song Machine, Season One: Strange Timez and appeared in it's music video.

Since November 2020, Gorillaz has stopped referencing Octavian in their promotional materials because of the newly surfaced physical and emotional abuse allegations from his ex-partner.

Musical Career
Octavian has released three mixtapes, 22 in 2016, Spaceman in 2018 and Endorphins in 2019, as well as one EP titled Essie World in 2017. In January of 2019, Octavian won the BBC Sound of 2019 award.

In November 2020, Octavian's ex-partner alleged that she had suffered emotional and physical abuse from him and presented evidence showing the alleged abuse. After that Octavians management and PR agency stated that they ended their business relationship. Octavians label, Black Butter Records, had dropped him shortly after and stated that they would not be releasing his album Alpha.

On October 18, 2021 Octavian announced that he is quitting making music.