Babatunde Akinboboye began his singing career in his high school choir in 2000, which led him to sing with the internationally acclaimed choral program at Mt. San Antonio College. While with Mt. SAC, Babatunde served as bass section leader and student director and he performed a wide variety of repertoire, including classical, jazz, R&B, barbershop, pop, and doo-wop. Equally at home in opera and in musical theater, Babatunde has sung the roles of Bartolo (Le Nozze di Figaro), Henry Davis (Street Scene), Aeneas (Dido and Aeneas), the Wolf/Cinderella’s Prince (Into the Woods), Elijah (Mendelsson's Elijah) and Horace Tabor (The Ballad of Baby Doe) with the California State University, Northridge Opera Theatre. Mr. Akinboboye’s honors include first place winner in the New Century Singers of Whittier Competition, finalist in the International Eisteddfod Vocal Solo Competition in Llangollen, Wales, Village Voices Chorale scholarship recipient, and two time recipient of the CSUN Kurt Allen scholarship. Babatunde is an Alumni of the OperaWorks Emerging Artist Program and will be attending the CoOPERAtive Young Artist Program this summer. He is nearing the completion of his Bachelors of Music degree in Vocal Performance at California State University, Northridge under the instruction of Dr. David Sannerud and the vocal coaching of Carol Roberts.