Citizen Kay

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]

Citizen Kay
Birth nameKojo Owusu-Ansah
Born(age 26/27)
Ghana

Kojo Owusu-Ansah was born in Ghana and moved to Australia when he was six.[4] He is the brother of Genesis Owusu.[5] He released his first single, "YES!" in 2013 and followed it up the next year with an EP called Demokracy, released in November 2014.[6] 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[7] and followed it up in 2017 with Belly of the Beast.[8]

Discography
  • "YES!" (2013)
  • Demokracy EP (2014)
  • With The People (2015)
  • Belly Of The Beast (2017)

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. Bloul, Scherry (12 August 2015), "Rapper Genesis Owusu hits right beat to make Triple j Unearthed High top five", Canberra Times
  6. Staff Writer (4 November 2014), "streams", themusic.com.au
  7. Fuamoli, Sosefina (15 October 2015), "Citizen Kay takes us through new album With The People track-by-track!", The AU Review
  8. D’Apice, James (24 April 2017), "Album Reviews", The Music
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