D.A BIZ Offers Holy Ghost as a Prayer for Those Who Never Taste the Fruit of Their Labour
A Port Harcourt Afrobeat Single Whose Official Video Landed a Day Before the Album
Port Harcourt began in 1912 as a port for Enugu coal. In 1958, it shipped Nigeria’s first crude oil to the world. D.A BIZ, born and raised in the Rivers State capital, released Holy Ghost on 15 April 2025. It sets a prayer for overworked people to a buoyant Afrobeat groove, and its roots are in a city where church life and nightlife sit side by side.
D.A BIZ’s Holy Ghost plays in the playlist below, and D.A BIZ’s profile gathers every article about the act. The single came to this desk through PopHits.Co Music Charts, which verifies independent artists and places their releases across its network of music news desks. Give it a spin, then read on for the Port Harcourt story behind it.
The Port Harcourt That Raised D.A BIZ, a Coal Port Turned Oil City Where Holy Ghost Begins
The city sits on the Bonny River in the Niger Delta, and trade shaped it from the start. The colonial government began the port in 1912 to export coal from the Enugu collieries. The Eastern Line railway linked those mines to the coast. In August 1913, Frederick Lugard named the town after Lewis Harcourt, then Secretary of State for the Colonies. The area’s native Ikwerre name is Rebisi. Oil changed the city after 1958, and firms such as Shell, Chevron and Agip still keep offices there.
Today Port Harcourt is the largest city in Rivers State, home to roughly 3.8 million people. Christianity is its main faith. Roman Catholics make up a large share of believers. Anglican, Methodist, Baptist, Presbyterian and Pentecostal congregations also gather across the city. For a song called Holy Ghost, that mix is the first piece of context. After all, the title comes straight from the language those churches use.
D.A BIZ describes the music as Afrobeat and Afropop, with room for electronic and pop sounds. The act also calls the project spiritually minded, with songs meant to heal. Releases come out under the D.a_biz Sound set name. Apple Music files the act’s singles under hip-hop and Afro-Beat. In September 2024, D.A BIZ also guested on This Night, a dance single by Luna Vibe featuring Resonance.
Pentecostal Pulpits and Late Nights Share the Port Harcourt Streets That Shaped D.A BIZ
The Pentecostal side of the city has grown quickly. Pastor David Ibiyeomie founded Salvation Ministries, a Pentecostal megachurch, in Port Harcourt on 13 April 1997. At first, it had only 34 people in a small building. Today it runs thousands of satellite churches in Nigeria and abroad. In February 2011 alone, it opened 14 of them in a single day. Its teaching puts the power of the Holy Spirit beside salvation, healing and evangelism. Its weekly Hour of Salvation programme also reaches viewers on Nigerian and international television.
The nightlife side of the scene is just as strong. Port Harcourt keeps one of the liveliest club circuits in Nigeria. Recording studios such as Street Rhymes Studios work alongside labels like Grafton Entertainment. Since 2004, Grafton has spent two decades finding local talent and staging concerts. Every year since 1988, meanwhile, the Carniriv carnival has filled the city with music. Its stages have also hosted visitors such as Shaggy, Beenie Man, Busta Rhymes and Wyclef Jean.
Timaya grew up between those two worlds. Born in Port Harcourt in 1980, he was the youngest of 15 children. He attended the Assemblies of God Nursery and Primary School. Later, at Nkpolu Oroworukwo secondary school, he broke house rules to get into late-night music events. He went on to blend Nigerian pop with dancehall and founded DM Records. His second album, in 2008, carried the title Gift and Grace.
What Port Harcourt Put Into Holy Ghost, the D.A BIZ Single Built on a Prayer and an Afrobeat Groove
Holy Ghost carries that double inheritance, faith words over a dance rhythm, into a single of its own. Its words deal with a short life, with suffering and with struggle. They also name a particular grief: working hard, then reaching the end of life before enjoying the fruit of that labour. From there the song turns to prayer and calls on the Holy Spirit to step in on the listener’s behalf.
The Spotify credits also show a small team. Collins Amaobi wrote the words and the music, and Young OG beat made the beat. Stan actur studio assisted on the production, while D.A BIZ, the main artist, also takes the backing vocals. At three minutes and 43 seconds, the track opens the ten-track album of the same name. The album then moves through Believe me, How are you, Sisi and Asa.
The picture came first. The official video landed on the DBizVEVO channel on 14 April 2025, a day ahead of the album. By late October 2026, it had passed 440,000 views. D.A BIZ tagged the video Afrobeat, which is also how Apple Music files the album.
Night Shifts, Exam Season and Hard Weeks Are Where D.A BIZ and Holy Ghost Belong
Listeners who already keep Moses Bliss in rotation will find familiar ground here. He moved from the choir at Believers’ Loveworld church to wider attention with Too Faithful in 2019. In 2023, he founded his own label, Spotlite Nation, and signed four artists to it. Like D.A BIZ, he keeps the release side in his own hands. Limoblaze is the other useful marker, especially for the diaspora. In 2022, the UK-based singer and rapper reworked Jireh, a worship song by Elevation Worship and Maverick City Music. He recorded it with Lecrae and Happi, and the result made Billboard’s US Afrobeats Songs list that year. Holy Ghost belongs on the same playlist, although it starts somewhere else. The team wrote its prayer for the song itself instead of borrowing another worship song.
It suits the night-shift worker, the student between exams and the parent holding a household together. In short, it fits anyone who wants a song that admits a hard week and still keeps moving.
From the AfroMusic.News curator team: “We picked Holy Ghost for the way it turns tiredness into a request. It asks the Holy Spirit to save, to guide and to lead the right way. Then it sets those three plain requests to a danceable Afrobeat beat.”
Stream the Holy Ghost album on Spotify, Apple Music, Deezer and Tidal, or use the smartlink to pick a service. D.A BIZ also posts music on Audiomack, Boomplay, SoundCloud and Bandcamp. Follow the act on Instagram, TikTok, Facebook and its YouTube channel.
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