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Agnes Nebo von Ballmoos – composer and music professor; MC Caro – rapper and singer; Benji Cavalli – U.S-based singer; Christoph the Change – rapper and songwriter; Cralorboi CIC – Hipco singer; Sundaygar Dearboy – Hipco and gospel singer; DenG – singer-songwriter; Eric Geso – singer-songwriter; Miatta Fahnbulleh – singer and ...
Faithvonic is a member of the Bassa tribe. [1] [2] She has four siblings and was raised by a single mother; her father died when she was two years old. [2]She was physically and mentally abused by her stepfather while growing up. [3]
Michael Davies, who is better known as Sundaygar Dearboy, is a Liberian singer, songwriter and record producer from Grand Bassa County. [1] He primarily sings in Bassa and Liberian English and has released several studio albums, including See Boyee, Don't Live with Woman (2007) and Rebirth (2012). He was named the Liberian Musician of the Year ...
Wesseh Freeman (or Weesay, 1976–2018) was a musician from Monrovia, Liberia. He became blind as a child [ 1 ] and turned to playing the guitar to support himself and his family. [ 2 ] He was self-taught, and built his guitars out of oil cans.
Professionally known as JZyNO and based in Accra, Ghana, [1] Jonathan Lee Pratt is a singer-songwriter born on 3 January 1995 in Buchanan, Grand Bassa County, Liberia, [2] to a Liberian-Portuguese father and a Nigerien-Liberian mother. [3] Pratt's biggest musical influences include Kendrick Lamar, Wizkid, and Bryson Tiller amongst others. [3]
[7] [8] Hipco music was becoming popular in 2004 and still is the most popular music genre of Liberia, "serving as the medium through which rappers and singers speak against societal ills, including injustice and corruption and also with an infusion of enticing lyrics for pleasure."
Jonathan Koffa (born May 14, 1981), [3] known professionally as Takun J, is a Liberian rapper, singer, songwriter, and activist. He is regarded as one of the pioneers of hipco, a politically charged music genre. [4] The Liberian Gender Ministry designated him as one of its anti-rape ambassadors. Takun J's music addresses socio-political issues ...
The Bassa people are a West African ethnic group primarily native to Liberia. The Bassa people are a subgroup of the larger Kru people of Liberia and Ivory Coast. They form a majority or a significant minority in Liberia's Grand Bassa, Rivercess, Margibi and Montserrado counties. [2] In Liberia's capital of Monrovia, they are the largest ethnic ...