Edem

Edem won Album of the Year at the 2015 Ghana Music Awards for Books and Rhymes, and the same year the Black Canadian Awards named him Best International Act from Africa.

Volta roots

Denning Edem Hotor was born on 20 May 1986 and comes from Dzogadze near Abor in the Volta Region. He grew up mainly in Accra and Aflao, attended Amazing Love International Schools and Bishop Herman College, and lost his mother at 13 and his father, a lawyer, at 16. At secondary school he started a six-member group, the Ringmasters, and afterwards recorded underground with Trigmatic, Kokromoti and others.

Career

His first radio hit, "Witine Woshi" ("we came and they ran"), came out in 2006, the year he joined Hammer's The Last Two label. He opened for John Legend in Accra in 2007. "You Dey Craze" won Hip Hop/Hiplife Song of the Year at the 2010 Ghana Music Awards, and in 2015 "Koene" took Afropop Song of the Year while "The One", with Sway, won Best Music Video. He has also released "Nyedzilo" with Reekado Banks and appeared on Voice of America's Music Time Africa.