Biography
Kwaku Asante is an artist from the UK who started sharing recordings and gaining fans on Soundcloud in 2017. His musical influences include his mother, his grandfather (an executive producer in Ghana who worked with such artists as Fela Kuti and Miriam Makeba), Whitney Houston, Luther Vandross, and his biggest influence, D'Angelo, who he has described as "the greatest of all time".
Of his early recordings, Asante said: "The first time I ever recorded anything was at the beginning of 2017. Then I put out a snippet every month.” Using SoundCloud to test the waters, Asante built a cult following while he was “getting better”, by “thinking of lyrics, thinking of concepts, doing YouTube tutorials on how to improve your falsetto, your baritone.”
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His first EP, honeycomb, dropped in December 2019, having taken only a week to create. He said: “The process was intense, it was quick, it was very emotive, talking to Dan about what I was going through, we had a lot of in-depth conversations.”
In 2022 his debut full length album, Wanderlust, was released on streaming platforms.
Biography text from Last.fm, available under CC BY-SA.