When mentioning the top five rapper' s in Ghana and the top ten rapper' s in Africa, the name Sarkodie or Obidie cannot be left out. Sarkodie is a Ghanaian hip hop, hip life, and afrobeats rapper and songwriting artist.
Sarkodie is a multiple- award winning rapper and has gained recognition not only in Ghana and Africa but the whole wide world as a whole. The rapper, whose real name is Michal Owusu Addo, Sarkodie was born on the 10th of July, 1988 at Koforidua and is the fourth child out of five children.
Even though he was born and raised in Koforidua, he spent all his life at Tema where he attended Tema Methodist Day Senior High School and proceed to IPMC Institute where he received a degree in graphic design. Sarkodie begun his music career as an underground artist and participated in Adom FM' s Kasahare Level rap competition where he encountered his first manager and owner of Duncwills Entertainment, Duncan Williams.
It was through the competition that Sarkodie also met great artist' s like Kwaw Kesse and Ayibge Edem who introduced him to Da Hammer of Last 2 Entertainment Records. Sarkodie became known as one of the founder' s of the popular " Azonto" dance genre which changed the face of the Ghanaian music industry and promoted it to the world.
Sarkodie has released many great hit singles and collaboration' s both local and international and among them are " Elijah" with the rap executioner, Obrafour, " Lucky" with Rudebwoy of P- Square, " Saara" with singer, Efya and " New Guy" with American rapper, Ace Hood.He has received many awards and nominations both in Ghana and beyond like the Vodafone Ghana Music Awards (VGMA) " Artiste Of The Decade" , MTV Music Awards amongst many others.
In his long time career, Sarkodie has released many albums like " Rapperholic" , " Sarkology" , " Mary" , " Highest" , " Black Love" , " Alpha" and many more.
These albums contained hit songs like " You Go Kill Me" with R2Bees, " Adonai" with the late Castro, " Megye Wo Girl" with Shatta Wale, " Saara" with Efya, " Lucky" with Rudebwoy and " New Guy" with Ace Hood. Sarkodie has been in the music industry for more than fifteen years since 2005 to date and has never went down the drain or has been involved in any celebrity scandal.
But the story of Sarkodie is uncompleted without the mention of his life partner, Tracey Owusu Addo Sarkcess who has been with the rapper through his thin times to his rise to stardom.
There is an adage which goes " Behind every successful man, there is a woman" and Sarkodie and Tracey can be used as a typical example of such an adage as she has been by the rapper' s side from time immemorial.
They got married in a private ceremony in Tema on the 17th of July, 2018 where Sarkodie released a song with afrobeats singer, King Promise titled " Can' t Let You Go" to mark his happy reunion.They currently have two children, a boy and a girl " Micheal Nana Yaw Owusu Addo Jnr (MJ) and Adalyn Owusu Addo (Titi). Tracey is an entrepreneur and business woman who owns her private company with the help of her husband, Sarkodie.
When you want to talk about the longest celebrity couple in Ghana, don' t forget to add Sarkodie and Tracey to the list of such celebrities. We all wish celebrities would stay with one particular partner and not be jumping from one person to another as it has become the norm of celebrities of nowadays.
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