Stormzy

Stormzy
Background Information
Born:	July 26, 1993
Origin:	Croydon, London, England
Occupation:	Songwriter
Active:	2010-present
Genres:	Grime, British hip hop
Labels:	Hashtag Merky Records (#Merky Records)

Michael Owuo Jr, better known by his stage name Stormzy, is an English grime and hip hop artist. He won Best Grime Act at the 2014 and 2015 MOBO Awards and was named as an artist to look out for in the BBC's influential Sound of 2015 list. His most successful song to date is the BPI gold-selling "Shut Up", which was initially released as a freestyle on YouTube. The track was then officially released and got to number eight on the UK Singles Chart after Stormzy launched a campaign to reach Christmas number one. His debut album, Gang Signs & Prayer, was released on 24 February 2017 and was the first grime album to reach number one on the UK Albums Chart.

Biography

After garnering attention on the UK underground music scene via his Wicked Skengman series of freestyles over classic grime beats, Stormzy released his debut EP Dreamers Disease independently in July 2014. On 22 October 2014, Stormzy won Best Grime Act at the MOBO awards. Later that month he became the first unsigned rapper to appear on Later with Jools Holland performing the song "Not That Deep" from Dreamers Disease.

In April 2016, Stormzy dropped the non-album song "Scary" before he went into hiatus. After a year's hiatus from social media, Stormzy returned in early February 2017 via a series of billboard campaigns across London displaying the hashtag #GSAP 24.02. The album title was announced to be Gang Signs & Prayer. The album was released on 24 February 2017 and debuted at number one on the UK Albums Chart on 3 March 2017.

Discography

• Gang Signs & Prayer (2017)

Credits

• "Power" - Writing

Relation with Little Mix

• He features on the remixed edition of Little Mix's song Power, which serves as the fourth single from their fourth album Glory Days.
• Little Mix presented the Brit award Best Male Solo Artist to Stormzy at the award show on February 21, 2018.
• Stormzy joined Little Mix on one of the dates of the group's concert tour LM5 The Tour to perform their collaborative single.
  

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