M.anifest Biography, Age, Net-Worth, Family, Career, Awards, Instagram, Twitter, Songs

M.anifest Biography: Real Name, Age, Parents, Hometown, Net-Worth, Girlfriend, Career, Awards, Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, Latest Songs

M.anifest born Kwame Ametepee Tsikata on November 20, 1982, is a Ghanaian rapper, singer, and composer.

The grandson of one of the leading African ethnomusicologists and composers, J.H. Kwabena Nketia.

M.anifest is the son of the Ghanaian lawyer and academic Tsatsu Tsikata and the Reverend Dr. Priscilla Naan Nketia, lawyer and pastor.

At the Ghana Music Awards 2017, he won the award for the best rapper and hip hop song of the year.

He is an award-winning hip-hop artist of international renown from Accra, Ghana, known for his musical border crossing, his multilingual wordplay, and his refreshing hybrid composition approach, which makes him stand out.

M.anifest Real Name

Kwame Ametepee Tsikata was born on November 20, 1982.

M.anifest Age

He was born on November 20, and he is 37 years old.

M.anifest Parents

M.anifest is the son of the Ghanaian lawyer and academic Tsatsu Tsikata and the Rev. Dr. Priscilla Naan Nketia, lawyer and pastor.

His maternal grandfather, Joseph Hanson Kwabena Nketia, one of the leading African ethnomusicologists, teachers, and composers.

M.anifest Birthplace

He was born in the capital Accra but is from Keta in the southern Volta Region of Ghana.

M.anifest Education

M.anifest attended secondary school at the SOS-Hermann Gmeiner International College in Tema. He was the entertainment prefect of his school known as Amet Tsikata.

M.anifest emigrated to twin cities (Minneapolis-St Paul, USA) in 2001 to attend Macalester College, where he graduated in economics in 2005.

He has held artist residencies and taught at St. John’s University. Lawrence, University of Ghana, and has spoken at various conferences at Hamline University, Macalester College (son Alma Mater), Penumbra Summer Theater Arts Institute, Ashesi University.

M.anifest Career

He released his first solo album, Manifestations, in 2007, funded by the royalties he received by lending his voice to a jingle for Pepsi, which was broadcasted nationwide on U.S radio.

The demonstrations won him the price of the songwriter of the year on the city pages, as well as the recognition of the five best albums of the year at the Star Tribune.

In 2009, he released the free album The Birds and the Beats, to raise awareness and raise funds for the work of the non-profit organization Young Entrepreneurs Africa.

In 2010, M.anifest joined Africa Express and gave concerts in France and Spain the same year.

It caught the attention of Africa Express co-founder Damon Albarn, who invited M.anifest to collaborate on Rocket Juice & the Moon in 2011.

In September 2012, M.anifest joined the Africa Express train operating over the United Kingdom. He wrote about these experiences for the Huffington Post.

He released his second album, Immigrant Chronicles: Coming to America in September 2011, which featured the singles “Suffer,” “Asa,” and “Blue (Chale What Dey Happen).”

It marked the decade of his life in the United States and the beginning of the transition to Ghana.

In 2012, M.anifest began to make great strides in Africa, performing on stage at Big Brother Africa and the Channel O Music Video Awards in South Africa.

The video for his single “Makaa Maka” also nominated him for the most talented hip-hop video at the Channel O 2012 Music Awards and won it as best hip-hop video at the 4syte Music Video Awards.

Less than two years after his return to Ghana, M.anifest received the prize for the best rapper and best hip-hop song at the Ghana Music Awards 2013, as well as several other continental distinctions.

The success of his latest project Apae: The Price of a Free EP (December 2013), which he described as “inspired and provoked by Ghana,” lies in the ingenious tales of songs like “Someway Bi” and the aspirations and real warnings such as stories told in songs like No ‘Shortcut to Heaven.’

M.anifest produced and cowrote the mini-independence Hip-Hopera for Channel O and also performed a piece on the first-ever Ghana music week, entailing the history of Ghana.

M.anifest is the co-founder of Giant Steps, an interactive conference for creative entrepreneurs and creative entrepreneurs.

It is also included in the feature documentary We Rock Long Distance by director Justin Schell.

On June 30, 2016, M.anifest released a diss song for rapper Sarkodie called “god MC” who attacked Sarkodie with rap punches that made Sarkodie react within two days by replying M.anifest in the song “Kanta” (cover of Panda).

M.anifest god MC won the Hip Hop song of the year at the Ghana Music Award next year.

Upon his return to Ghana in December 2011, his modern and unshakable African musical identity quickly brought a note across Africa.

M.anifest Awards

He won the Best Rapper of the Year award as well as the Hip Hop Song of the Year award at the Ghana Music Awards evening in 2013 and 2017.

The video for his single “Makaa Maka” also nominated him for the most talented hip-hop video at the Channel O 2012 Music Awards, winning it as the best hip-hop video at the 4syte Music Video Awards.

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