Dean Omori

Dean Omori (born Dean Francis Bedwell, 5 July 1968) is an English singer-songwriter, poet and producer. Omori is the Japanese word for "big forest".

His work addresses human rights, war, environment, prejudice and philosophical issues. Omori is the founder of The Art of Protest, an organisation set up to encourage protest through art and music.

Music and film In 2006, Omori wrote the songs that would eventually make up his first album Ten War Songs. In the following years wrote, performed and produced 14 albums and began making short films to accompany his music. In 2008 the World Wide Fund for nature (WWF) awarded him best film and music for How Can You Sleep.

In 2010, Omori was discovered by Malcolm Holmes of OMD and signed to the label Fin Music. His music and film Censorship Burns The Books Nobody Reads was used by Freemuse to help support their cause, highlighting the persecution of artists and musicians around the world.

In 2011, he was invited to write the music celebrating Amnesty International's 50th year, which was released in May and has toured supporting their cause. In 2016, his album 'Got Daddy Gone' was written for War Child to draw attention to the ongoing war in Syria.

In 2013, he left his record company to independently release a new album Sean Penn. After the split he has remained an independent artist with full control to write, perform, produce and record all of his material.

Albums Tough Day Without FLowers - 2025 25,00 Mile Song - 2024 Street - 2023 Post Original - 2022 Whole Cowardly Bundle of Art - 2021 11th Commandment - 2020 Just is - 2019 Witness and Testify - 2018 Music for an Unknown Revolution - 2017 Got Daddy Gone - 2016 The Heroin View - 2015 Holocaust and the Whale - 2014 Sean Penn - 2013 I Can Save the World - 2012 Words of Freedom - 2011 List of My Demands - 2010 The Immortal Death of Samuel Escobar - 2009 I Want to be Pregnant - 2008 Squaw - 2007 Ten War Songs - 2006