Music artist research - Kwasi Danquah a.k.a Tinchy Stryder

Tinchy stryder, born 10th June 1987, begun displaying his vocal talents on the radio as a young teenager, then becoming prominent in the underground scene, after going to live shows and meeting up with the likes of Wiley and Dizzee Rascal, who were the more famous music artists in the grime era of music at the time. He achieved an award for "best newcomer" in 2003, and since then has been working hard to product quality music to entertain the public and improve on his vocal talent. He has released several albums, such as ;

• Star in the hood
• Cloud 9

He has also released mixtapes and solo songs. The songs he has created, have been used in films, and played on grime radio channels, which signifies his achievements already from being just a small artist and now becoming well known all over the world.

Synergy has occured with this artist. His independant record label, "Takeover Entertainment" had worked with "Ice Cream records", which enabled him to be featured in a single of Craig David's, who is a very famous music artist. After that, he was also able to be featured in 'Princes' from the album Saint Dymphna by Gang Gang Dance. This is a big achievement for Tinchy Stryder.

His recent song "Take me back", had 'Taio Cruz' featured with it, who is also a well known music artist recently. This song achieved the 39 spot in the UK charts on the first day. By the following week it jumped into third place, this is an amazing achievement. This song was liked so much by the public that it was played on a regular basis by not only one radio station, but atleast 4, including BBC Radio 1 and Kiss FM, which are possibly the main stations for listening to the best music.

Tinchy Stryder's recent activity has included supporting music artist "N-Dubz" on his music tour, aswell as some other new artists such as "Fe-Nix" who will also be supporting N-Dubz on his tour.

The target audience for him, is teenagers. Reason for this is due to his attire, and lyrics, relating to their social life, and the clothing they believe to be the 'fashion', that they are wanting to buy. The genre is normally one which is easily listened to wherever, and is easily hooked on by teenagers, relating to an ideal lifestyle, which is why it suits this audience.

His music can be found from iTunes, local shops which sell albumns such as HMV, websites which well albumns like 'UKRecordShop.com', MySpace, last.fm, and videos from youtube.com.