Robert Ozn

Robert Ōzn
ŌZN Live, Huntington Beach California 2023
Born
Robert Mitchell Warfield Frank Rosen

New York, New York
Other namesŌZN, DaDa NaDa
OccupationsRecording Artist, Singer, Rapper, Songwriter, Record producer, Actor, Screenwriter, Film Producer
Known forEarly pioneer of computer music and sampling

Robert Ōzn (born Robert Mitchell Warfield Frank Rosen, in New York City) is an American recording artist, screenwriter, producer and Broadway actor. After touring with The Tonight Show Band as a jazz singer, he gained fame as the vocal half of '80s synthpop duo ẼBN-ÕZN and went on to a House Music career as a solo artist under the name Dada Nada. He later co-produced and co-wrote the feature film I Witness starring Jeff Daniels, James Spader, and Portia de Rossi.

In 2024 ĒBN-ŌZN’s "AEIOU Sometimes Y" (Elektra Records, 1983), the first commercially released and charted record made with a computer in the United States, was inducted into the Alternative Music Hall of Fame as a “Masterpiece Single”