Master Lyricist and Universal Linguist, Creative Director and Owner of One Mic Entertainment, Graduate of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science & Technology, Happy husband, proud father and enigmatic entertainer is Kwame Nsiah Apau, known as Okyeame Kwame in the entertainment circles in the Ghanaian music industry. He was part of the Akyeame duo who won the first Hiplife award in Ghana.
Okyeame Kwame is one of two HipLife musicians whose poetry and music is studied in Universities in Ghana.
He is a family man with strong values. His diligence and skill in art won him the most coveted award in the music industry, during the Ghana music awards in 2009, ARTISTE OF THE YEAR. In that same year, he won the Artiste of the year at Joy Fm Nite with The Starz.
He is a great social commentator with didactic themes in his songs to educate the public whiles entertaining them. He’s currently the PRO for Music union of Ghana
Brand building
Building a consistent brand image is one of Okyeame Kwame’s most precious assets. He has been in the music industry for 15 years and remains relevant in changing markets.
The versatile brand
Okyeame Kwame has built the ‘Versatile Brand’ by creating a never-before-seen performance which was judged the best innovative show of the year by myjoyonline.com. You will therefore be aligning with an excellent communicator as well as a very innovative, hardworking gentleman who is serious about his work and that of all he aligns with.
Social Responsibility
Currently the Ghana Health Ambassador, Okyeame Kwame has for four and half years now embarked on philanthropic activities. He has founded the Okyeame Kwame Foundation, a non-governmental organization to administer free Hepatitis B screening, educate, counsel and create awareness about the disease using entertainment.
He is subsequently building a hepatitis B centre at Tamale where the prevalence rate is very high to help eventually eradicate hepatitis B from Ghana.
An Entrepreneur
Okyeame Kwame is a partner in a shoe manufacturing company in Ghana called Horseman Shoes which is doing well so far. He has come out with his own designs for his shoe line called OK by horseman which will be outdoored later this year.
Social Media
Okyeame Kwame has over 18400 and 179,000 followers on Twitter and Facebookrespectively and blogs at www.ok.ghanaweb.com
Awards won/citations Ghana Music Awards 1999 – artiste of the year, Hiplife Song of the year, Song of the year, Video of the year Ghana Music Awards 2004 – Best Collaboration of the year Ghana Music Awards (Italy) 2004 – Best Hiplife Song, Songwriter of the year, Best Collaboration Ghana Music Awards 2009 – Best Collaboration of the year, Songwriter of the year, album of the year, Most popular song of the year Channel O MVA Most young and Talented Artiste, Best Hiphop video Africa Music awards UK 2009 – Best West African Artiste, Best African Video, Best Song Most popular song of the year 2011 Best music video of the year 2011 Best rapper of the year 2011/2012
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