Sarkodie Biography Summary
Are you curious to know more about Sarkodie? In this article, you will get to know the Ghanaian rapper’s real name, age, personal life, education, music career, awards, and more. Just keep reading and you’ll find all that you want to know about him.
| Real Name | Michael Owusu Addo |
| Date of Birth | 10 July 1985 |
| Nationality | Ghanaian |
| Record Label | Nedjon Media/SarkCess Music/Duncwills Entertainment |
Here is a full biography of Sarkodie
Michael Owusu Addo, popularly known as Sarkodie aka Obidibiponbidi, is a Ghanaian rapper, songwriter, and entrepreneur born on July 10, 1985, in Koforidua, Ghana. The names of his parent are Mr. Augustine Owusu Addo and Mrs. Emma Maame Aggrey. Sarkodie is married to Tracy and has two kids named Adalyn Owusu Addo and Micheal Nana Yaw Owusu Addo Jnr.
The parents later then moved to Tema, where he started schooling. King Sark completed his Junior High School in Tema and enrolled in Tema Methodist High School after completing his elementary school. He furthered his education at IPMC and earned a degree in graphics and design.
In an interview sighted by Tunebeatz.com, King Sark said he began rapping when he was four years old. At that time, he was more into Twi rap and some mixture of English.
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Sarkodie began his music career as an underground rapper, where he joined numerous rap competitions and events. He also made it through Adom FM’s popular rap competition “Kasahare Level” where he defeated other competitors and emerged as the winner. Sark also participated in the Tema rap battle championship and won.
It was through these rap battles that he encountered his former manager, Duncan Williams, of Duncwills Entertainment. Sarkodie also met some artists like Edem, Castro, Kwaw Kese, and others who introduced him to Hammer of The Last Two, a music producer. Because Sarkodie was very good and skillful in rap, Hammer decided to feature him on two of his tracks.
The talented Ghanaian rapper later released his debut album “MaKye” at Accra Mall, which was produced by JaySo and KillBeatz. He featured some great musicians like R2Bees, J Town, Sway, Kwaw Kese, Omar Sterling, and many more in his album. In a post sighted by Tunebeatz.com, Sarkodie gained more publicity with these hit albums “Makye” and “Rapperholic”.
Later in the game, King Sark established his record label named “Sarkcess Music” which involved Angel, Tracy, Sammy Forson, DJ Mensah, and others on the label’s board of directors. Sarkodie was able to sign Akwaboah and Strongman on his record label. They worked nicely together as one team and family.
Here are some popular songs of Sarkodie
- You go kill me
- Adonai
- Onyame Nhyra
- Babe
- Down on One
- Illuminati
- Love Rocks
- Megye wo girl
- Chingum
- Biibi Ba
- Shots on Shots
- Ofeetso
- New Guy
- Original
Most Popular Album of Sark
- Makye (2009)
- Rapperholic (2012)
- Sarkology (2014)
- Highest (2017)
- Black Love Album
- Mary (2015)
- Alpha (2019)
Sarkodie is not just the best rapper in Ghana but also one of the best rappers in West Africa and beyond. When we talk of awards, King Sark has about 200 nominations and has received more than 120 awards. In this article, we cannot mention all of the awards and nominations he has received so far. The figures mentioned above are not accurate, as they might not reflect his complete list of achievements, which may exceed what we have in our records.
Awards
The following are the awards the rap god has in our records. Note: The awards mentioned below are awards from 2012 to 2022. You can check out the current awards and nominations on Wikipedia.
BET Awards, BET Hip Hop Awards, EMY Awards, 3 Music Awards, Daf BAMA Awards, International Reggae and World Music Awards, Entertainment Achievement Awards, Ghana Event Awards, Ghana Entertainment Awards, MTV Africa Music Awards, All Africa Music Awards, YouTube Sub Sahara Africa Creator Awards, Africa Entertainment Legend Awards, The Future Africa Awards, African Entertainment Awards USA, HiPipo Music Awards, The Headies, Caribbean American and African Nations Music Awards, Afrobeats Music Awards, Ghana Music Awards UK, Ghana Music Awards USA, SoundCity Music Video Awards, Bass Awards, Ghana Music Awards, MOGO Awards, 4syte Music Video Awards, and many more.
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