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David Emmanuel Karo (born April 18, 1997), known professionally as Kabbafilmguy, is a Nigerian filmmaker, rapper, actor, television producer, and businessman. Born in Warri, Kabba as called by his vast array of friends began pursuing a career in music video creation in 2017. In 2017, He Directed his first Music video as an underground Director/ Cinematographer in Delta steel town 1 (DSC); however, He has worked with the likes of Patoranking, Waje, Gbemi Phillip, Great Adams and the Rushing tap studios among a lot others.

in 2023, He took a break off the career and everything else surrounding the career, He chose to live a private life.

Early Life
Karo was born in Delta steel town 1, Dsc, and raised in Ovwian a neighbouring town by his mother Victoria. Victoria, a Business minded Woman into supplies of home made gin from the south to the north where she had a basement she uses as her depot, raised Karo until she died in a car accident when He was thirteen years old.

He began Rapping at about age 15, why in school, He would gather friends to rap and act together and after school hours, he would be in his uncle's shop repairing phones "I grew up in a competitive situation so when I started filmmaking, competition didn't do any harm"

At age four, Karo lost his Dad who has just been promoted to vice principal position at ughelli federal government college at the time, so He grew up with his mother up until age thirteen and then she died in a car accident, He began hustling to meet up with his fees and also with the support of his church, he was able to round up secondary school before the career and tertiary Education starts to conflict each other. He experienced his first form of fame in Auchi Polytechnic where he shot his first feature film as a Cinematographer for the minstrel theatre troupe (mtt) in Auchi.

Karo suffered being bipolar from childhood, until after a couple therapeutic session that opened up his mind to a new worldview.

Career
In 2017, Karo ventured into filmmaking and created means trying to see beginners in photography and videography grow in their respected field.

A lot of photographers in Benin, Auchi, warri, asaba, Lagos and other parts of the country grew through his insight in the field, Karo was never really motivated by the fame, he was mainly in for the money but as a tag along blessing, the fame came through too and it was one of the blessings he counted.

In 2018, he was signed into Talkative Afrika, a media company that existed for anything videography, they shot films, weddings and commercials across different countries and institutions, a deal that barely lasted a year but brought in a few millions putting the lad’s career on the lips of many. in 2021, He shot another feature Simple Devil with Eve Esin and other Nigerian celebrities, In 2022, He shot a commercial for iyahmo university, uzaire, which also added some more millions to his bank.

He continued for a year working with other brands such as martini, Orhue and others until the earthquake like break up with his girlfriend in 2023.

Relationship
Karo was known to be a Videographer and with the perception of a gangster not a Lover boy but the truth has always been that behind the whole cinematography thing, there’s always been a soft and tender Karo who loves and love to be loved too. he had been in a serious relationship with Ugheoke Ann, a young lady who attracted him to herself by her level of intelligence, according to him: Ochuwa is the first of her kind of all the women that came his way, but the relationship between the duo broke up after surviving it’s first three years.

The break up came in at the point where they were making their engagement plans to getting married already and the breakup was due to rumours spreading across the country about hanging out with too many industry ladies.

The break up weighed him down to a large extend and led to him letting go of the career and starting a new life in 2023.