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What's New!?
"Don't take my Soul" ALBUM OUT NOW!
Available to stream and download HERE
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Don't take my Soul Autumn tour dates and ticket links OUT NOW!
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INCREDIBLE Reviews for the new album. So humbled and blessed, Thank you Hugh Stephens BBC 6 and Music Magazine, Japan. Read full reviews HERE!
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Final Single from the new album "Don't take my Soul" OUT NOW!
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FORIWAH Featuring the amazing OGUNSKELE
Listen HERE!
ODO SRONKO Featuring The Godfather PAT THOMAS, the second single on our sonic journey OUT NOW - Listen HERE
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"Such a magnificent delight to bring into existence "Don't take my Soul" our sophomore album, depicting the pilgrimage back to connection with our roots and find clarity and balance.
This album is a reach out, a fervent and vulnerable anthemic conversation about identity, origins and reality. So much appreciation to the diaspora community for the influences and inspiration. Special thanks and deep gratitude to the Almighty mother, Asaaseyaa and all the Gods and Ancestors, especially to my Grandmother, Sarah, for her continued blessings.
This album wouldn't be possible without expressing my sincere gratitude for the love, warmth and support brought by everyone involved. My children and Family, my partner Jemma, GUTS, Heavenly Sweetness, Pura vida, the band both in U.K and Ghana and to Beda, Ben Haskins, Robin Downes and Owen Burns.
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I hope this album blesses you and your family, helping you to find and protect your SOUL.
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One love and blessings, always,
K.O.G"
Music
VIDEOS
MALA Kusum Shambala 2023
AYINYE Live, Zone 6 Agege 2021.
K.O.G on the amazing Nubiyan Twists track "If I Know"
2021
"Later with Jools Holland"
SHINE Live Session - Yellow Arch -2023
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WIPE 2023
Yellow Arch Studios
"Shidaa" Zone 6 Agege 2021
Official Video
MY STORY
“I view MUSIC as a major WEAPON in the BATTLEFIELD for PEACE of MIND in the world” – K.O.G
Kweku Sackey aka K.O.G (Kweku of Ghana) is a multi-dimensional creative force, combining exquisite writing skills with shamanistic live performance, fierce raps, perfectly on pitch singing across a massive vocal range and some absolutely wicked dance moves. Not to mention his skills as a percussionist, arranger, bandleader and art director.
Rightly celebrated for exhilarating live performances that can transform the energy of any audience, he is a true poet and storyteller, using a mix of English, Pidgin and Ga to paint sonic pictures that reach deep into the souls of everyone ready to listen.
“I love to make music that CONNECTS, REVIVES , EDUCATES and ENTERTAINS, drawing on the spiritual, physical, emotional and mental well being of us as individuals and our quest to maintain balance with the universe.”
Born in Accra, Ghana, to a physicist father who had studied in England, and his mother a Nurse, he grew up with a diverse range of international influences alongside Ghanaian styles.
“I was influenced a great deal by a range of artists from jazz to opera and traditional and folk music: Tom Waits, Quincy Jones, Bob Marley, Sizzla, Ladysmith Black Mambazo, Ebo Taylor, Gyedu Blay Ambolley, Atongo Simba, George Clinton, Pavarotti, Warsaw Village Band”
Resident for over 10 years in Sheffield, UK, music has taken him to perform in 15 countries at huge stages all over the world, from Glastonbury’s legendary West Holts stage to Fusion (Germany), Sauti Za Busara (Zanzibar), Kabardock (Reunion) and the Commonwealth Games (Gold Cost, Australia), winning the 2018 Young Commonwealth Performer and performing for Nelson Mandela’s family.
A prolific writer and collaborator, he needs a range of projects to showcase the different sides of his unique talent. He is the lead vocalist for afro-futurist project Onipa (Strut Records, Wormfood) and hi-life/hiphop/funk band K.O.G and the Zongo Brigade (Heavenly Sweetness), as well as collaborating extensively with Nubiyan Twist; his song ‘If I know’ off the Freedom Fables album (Strut, March 2021) was performed live on Later with Jools Holland and A playlisted twice on BBC6 Music.
Kweku is deeply aware of his heritage and of his role as an ambassador both through space and time, negotiating culturally between African and Western influences and between the traditional and the modern: always open to new innovations and ideas while firmly rooted in a deep lineage. This openness has informed recent collaborations with a wide wide range of producers and writers, including iZem, Afriquoi, Congo Natty, Dark Sky, Dizraeli, Chiminyo, Umoja and many more in the pipeline.
He will launch his 2nd Solo album in September 2024. A very exciting collaboration between Kweku's 2 homes - GHANA and the U.K.
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Booking Agent: Andre Marmot
Technical and logistical Manager:
Jemma Clark
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The K.O.G Family
This incredible group of amazing humans are behind the vibes and energy you see on stage. We've been playing together for over 5 years and the love, energy and connection between us all is something I truly treasure.
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I feel very lucky to have my band family who understand and believe in the vision of our music. Bringing their incredible creativity to the writing process and performances, this melting pot of pure talent makes me proud to be creating!
Owen Burns - Bass
Amy Clark - Vocals
Theo Goss - Drums
Ben Haskins - Guitar
Amba Illingworth - Vocals
Sunday Lendis - Vocals
Felix Burling - Trumpet
Jasper Green - Keys
Harry Fowler - Saxophone
Ben Powling - Baritone sax
Jemma Clark - Tour Manager, Creative Director and General Manager.