Citizen Kay

Citizen Kay
Birth name Kojo 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]

Born in Ghana Kojo Ansah 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]

Discography

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
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