Kontihene
{{Short description|Ghanaian hiplife artist}}
Emmanuel Nana Appiah Boateng known by his stage name Kontihene is a Ghanaian hiplife musician.{{Cite web |title=Kontihene, Biography |url=https://mobile.ghanaweb.com/person/Kontihene-320 |archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20241213103509/https://mobile.ghanaweb.com/person/Kontihene-320 |archive-date=2024-12-13 |access-date=2024-12-24 |website=mobile.ghanaweb.com |language=en}} 'Aketesea' from his debut album Nyankonton won the Song of the Year Award during the 2003 edition of the Vodafone Ghana Music Awards making him the first new artist at the time to have received this award.{{Cite web |url=https://www.modernghana.com/entertainment/124/kontihene-wins-song-of-the-year-award.html |title=Kontihene wins song of the year award |access-date=2019-04-30}}{{Cite web|url=http://www.myjoyonline.com/entertainment/2019/February-4th/you-cant-pay-for-kojo-antwis-talent-itll-be-disrespectful-kontihene.php|title=You can’t pay for Kojo Antwi’s talent, it’ll be disrespectful – Kontihene|website=www.myjoyonline.com}}{{Cite web|url=http://peacefmonline.com/pages/showbiz/music/201603/272964.php|title=My Songs Are Timeless - Kontihene|first=Peace FM|last=Online|website=peacefmonline.com}}
Early life
Kontihene was born in the 1920s.{{Cite web |title=Kontihene Profile and Discography {{!}} African Music Library |url=https://africanmusiclibrary.org/artist/Kontihene |access-date=2024-12-24 |website=africanmusiclibrary.org}} He grew up in the city of Kumasi in the Ashanti Region of Ghana. He had his basic education at the Martyrs of Uganda School and went on to Opoku Ware Secondary School. He learnt to play the piano at a young age and can play the saxophone as well.{{Cite web|url=http://www.ghanabase.com/kontihene/biography.asp|title=Biography of Kontihene {{!}} Ghana Music {{!}} Kontihene of Ghana|website=www.ghanabase.com|access-date=2019-10-30}} Raised as a Pentecostal, and mentored by local musician named Tommy Weireeda. Eventually, Kontihene and his family relocated to the US, where he continued to pursue his musical career.{{Cite journal |last=African American History Project |first=Bronx |date=2009-11-10 |title=Kontihene |url=https://research.library.fordham.edu/baahp_oralhist/45/ |journal=Oral Histories}}
Awards
= Vodafone Ghana Music Awards =
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|rowspan="2"|2003
|Aketesea
|Song of the Year
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|Himself
|New Artist of the Year
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Category:21st-century Ghanaian male singers
Category:21st-century Ghanaian singers
Category:Year of birth missing (living people)
Category:Alumni of Opoku Ware School
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