Ghostpoet
Sign in to saveGhostpoet (born Obaro Ejimiwe; 18 January 1983) is a British vocalist, songwriter and musician. He released five critically acclaimed albums with two being nominated for the prestigious Mercury Prize. Based in Berlin, he has expanded his work to include fine art since 2021.
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Ghostpoet (born Obaro Ejimiwe, 18 January 1983) is a Mercury Music Prize Nominee from Coventry, UK, raised somewhere between London, Coventry, Nigeria and Dominica. Currently based in Berlin. A free EP entitled 'The Sound of Strangers' sidled into the public domain in June 2010. It gained him a coveted spot in The Guardian's "New Band of the Day" feature and a record contract with Gilles Peterson's Brownswood Recordings imprint. Ghostpoet dropped his debut single 'Cash and Carry Me Home' on 2
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Ghostpoet (born Obaro Ejimiwe; 18 January 1983) is a British vocalist, songwriter and musician. He released five critically acclaimed albums with two being nominated for the prestigious Mercury Prize. Based in Berlin, he has expanded his work to include fine art since 2021.
Ejimiwe was born in South London to a Nigerian father and a Dominican mother. At the age of 18, he enrolled at Coventry University and joined a grime/MC collective there. After moving back to London, he received two Mercury Prize nominations, for Peanut Butter Blues & Melancholy Jam (2011) and for Shedding Skin (2015). Other critically acclaimed albums are Some Say I So I Say Light (2013), Dark Days + Canapés (2017), and I Grow Tired But Dare Not Fall Asleep (2020). Since 2021, Ejimiwe has expanded his artistic practice into sound art, sculpture, installation, photography and video. He lives and works in Berlin, Germany.