Mr Eazi

Nigerian rapper, singer and songwriter born July 19th, 1991 in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, Nigeria, performing with lyrics in Pidgen English. He is considered a pioneer in the Banku music genre, which he describes as a mix of Ghanaian highlife music with Nigerian chord progressions and patterns. In 2008 he relocated to Kumasi, Ghana where he enrolled in the faculty of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology. He released his his debut mixtape About to Blow in July 2013. He gained an international audience following the release of the [a=Efya]-assisted single "Skin Tight". His second mixtape Life Is Eazi, Vol. 1 – Accra To Lagos was released on 10 February 2017.