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MNEK

Uzoechi Osisioma "Uzo" Emenike (; born 9 November 1994), professionally known by his stage name MNEK ( ; a gramogram of Emenike), is a British singer, songwriter and record producer. He has been nominated for two Grammy Awards and a Brit Award, and has received the ASCAP Vanguard Award. His writing and production credits include H.E.R., Jax Jones, Zara Larsson, Little Mix, Dua Lipa, Flo, Sugababes, Clean Bandit, Julia Michaels, Måneskin, Craig David, Christina Aguilera, Becky Hill, Joel Corry, Selena Gomez, Years & Years, Kid Cudi, Kylie Minogue, Beyoncé, Hailee Steinfeld, Madonna, KSI, Mabel

Person

Born: 1994-11-09

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Film & TV

Acting · Lewisham, London, England, UK

Uzoechi Osisioma "Uzo" Emenike, professionally known as MNEK, is a British singer and Brit and Grammy-award-winning songwriter and record producer. He has been nominated for a Grammy and he received the ASCAP Vanguard Award.

Known for

Girlbands Forever — Self2025
Zara Larsson - Up Close — Self2025
Girlbands Forever — Self2025
Adam Lambert: Out, Loud and Proud2024
Disco: Soundtrack of a Revolution — Self2023
The Outsiders? — Self2021
RuPaul's Drag Race UK — Self - Special Guest2019
RuPaul's Drag Race UK — Self - Guest Judge2019
The Jonathan Ross Show — Self2011
BBC Radio 1's Live Lounge2010

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners: 221,778
Total plays: 2,017,745

Recent publications · Crossref

1 total works indexed

The Apostle Paul and the Empty Tomb
· 1958

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Key facts

Musical artist.name: MNEK
Musical artist.image: MNEK Glatsonbury Festival 2014 by neal whitehouse piper cropped.jpg
Musical artist.caption: MNEK performing at Glastonbury in 2014
Musical artist.birth_name: Uzoechi Osisioma Emenike
Musical artist.alias: Uzo Emenike
Musical artist.birth_place: Lewisham, London, England
Musical artist.origin: Bellingham, London, England
Musical artist.years_active: 2011–present

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Key dates

Born: 9 November 1994

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Wikidata facts

Instance of: human
Gender: male
Citizenship: United Kingdom
Place of birth: Lewisham
Occupation: musician
Languages spoken: English language
Genre: pop music
Record label: Universal Music Group
Official website: mnekofficial.com
Image: MNEK Glatsonbury Festival 2014 by neal whitehouse piper cropped.jpg

Article

10 sections

Contents

Career
2011–2013: Breakthrough
2014–2015: ''Small Talk''
2016–present: Songwriting breakthrough and ''Language''
Personal life
Discography
Awards and nominations
Notes
References
External links

==Career== ===2011–2013: Breakthrough=== In an interview with Build LDN, MNEK talked about his introduction into the music industry and how, at first, he did not even know what a publisher was. He stated, "I started writing poems and writing songs around the age of 8 or 7 and I started playing around with production software from really young as well. I then put some stuff up on Myspace finally when I was 14. There were two songs I had. I sent them out to all my favourite artists on Myspace and it just landed on this artist at the time called CocknBullKid, but she's now Anita Blay and she's an amazing songwriter. She was like "Okay, cool. I'm just gonna send this to my publisher" and at the time I had no idea what a publisher was. So she sent it and that was that and it became this flurry of people wanting to be my publisher and then that was me in the industry, but then I've had to grow in the industry at the same time – I've been learning on the job – because I was still in school and all that stuff. I was managing how to work that around it because my parents weren't gonna let me leave school."