Citizen Kay

Citizen Kay
Birth name Kojo Owusu-Ansah
Born Ghana

Citizen Kay is a Canberra based hip hop artist.[1] His debut EP Demokracy was nominated for a 2015 ARIA Award for Best Urban Album[2] and his debut album With The People was nominated the next year.[3]

Kojo Owusu-Ansah was born in Ghana and moved to Australia when he was six.[4] He released his first single, "YES!" in 2013 and followed it up the next year with an EP called Demokracy, released in November 2014.[5] The EP was nominated for Best Urban Album at the ARIAs and Best Independent Hip-Hop Album Release at the AIR Awards. In October 2015 he released his debut album With The People[6] and followed it up in 2017 with Belly of the Beast.[7]

Discography

  • "YES!" (2013)
  • Demokracy EP (2014)
  • With The People (2015)
  • Belly Of The Beast (2017)

References

  1. ↑ "Update: Citizen Kay is getting With The People for national album tour", Triple J, 12 October 2015
  2. ↑ "ARIA Awards 2015: Courtney Barnett, Vance Joy dominate nominations", The Sydney Morning Herald, 7 October 2015
  3. ↑ Zuel, Bernard (5 October 2016), "ARIA Award nominations have a hairy surprise among the Flumes and Avalanches", Sydney Morning Herald
  4. ↑ Rae, Harvey (3 December 2015), "Demokracy at work for Citizen Kay", The West Australian
  5. ↑ Staff Writer (4 November 2014), "streams", themusic.com.au
  6. ↑ Fuamoli, Sosefina (15 October 2015), "Citizen Kay takes us through new album With The People track-by-track!", The AU Review
  7. ↑ D’Apice, James (24 April 2017), "Album Reviews", The Music
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