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JAY KENN
Agyemang Nana-Owusu Bright (born on May 1, 1997) known professionally as Jay Kenn (/ˈdʒeɪ ˈkʒnː/; stylized as JAY KENN) is a Ghanaian singer, rapper, songwriter and a record producer. He's regarded by many as the leader of the new generation of the Obuassi music scene.

Born and raised in Obuasi, JAY KENN's love and passion for music grew when he joined his church choir as a drummer. He then began working in small local studios where he nurtured his production skills. He was signed as a music producer to Papaz Entertainment Empire under the name 'Papaz Kenn' when he went to the college. He then started producing songs for his college label mates and a lot others. At times he was allowed to rap a few lines on their songs. After college the founder or Papaz Entertainment Empire, Nelson Baah Agyemang rebranded the label and renamed it as Chapel Made Money Gang but JAY KENN didn't appear as the label's member.

He found Thvrsday Negus In The Building which was an independent media label with music aristes, bloggers, graphic designers and photographers. "As for rap, it came naturally," he said in an interview with the Unleash GH TV show. He signed himslef on his label and started making his own music under the name 'El Jay' with the help of Umagar Beats, a sound engineer and music producer who was introduced to him by his old label boss. His songs went viral in his locality. He then proceeded with being a full time music artiste.

He dropped his first ever mixtape, THE LONG JOURNEY in 2014 which gained massive attention across his birth city and part of his city's major region. He set back for a while when he entered the university and came back with an Extended Play, THE THVRSDAY REMIXES which was covers of 10 mainstream hip hop hits in the world in 2016. The EP featured his label mates Mr. Spinal (now Nana Kwame). My City (Cover of Tory Lanez's Diego) and The Panda Flow (Cover of Desiigner's Panda) was the hit singles on the project.

In November 2017 he signed to Creative Oasis Media/OBU421! and had to rebrand his name, thus JAY KENN. He started doing more of singing and minimized putting out rap songs. He put out an Extended Play, KENNECTION which features 7 songd and 3 music acts.

Early Life
Bright is the last born of five children by Joseph Owusu Agyemang and Grace Appiah Agyemag. He was born and partially raised in Akaporiso, a suburb of Obuasi. There, he was raised by both parents but he was later adopted by his grandmother and moved to Kumasi at 10. He attended Abusco Royal School inside Akaporiso, Obuasi before he was moved to stay with his grandmother to be home schooled. He came back to Obuasi around 2009 and went back to complete his junior high school at his former school. He gained admission to college at St. John's School, Sekondi in the western region of Ghana at 2011.

A lot of people inspired me to do music but I am gonna put Nelson Baah Agyemang who was my school guardian in college, KENN posted on his instagram some time ago. ''He would use spoons and pens to play rhythms on the trunks and chop boxes for me to rap famous American rap songs. Sometimes, he gave me a theme to write about at prep and i'd later read it to him. He later put me on his label'', KENN said in a interview. To him, Nelson made him consider being a music artiste because he was first into only beat making. Nelson (Stage name, Agyengo Papaz) gave JAY KENN the chance to rap few lines on some of his records. He made other label mates put KENN on as well. JAY KENN went independent right after college and dropped his first ever single, F.I.A V (Fucc! It's A Verse).

Music Career
2014-2015: The Long Journey Mixtape

With his self found and independent record label, Thvrsday Negus In The Building he put his first solo single, F.I.A.V out. After the song met recognition by the local media, he later announced that the record was the lead single of his mixtape that he was working on. For F.I.A.V, he got up to 900 plays on hulkshare only. 2 months later a collaboration between him and Agyengo Papaz was leaked and the media was confused as to whether it was another single but JAY KENN appeared on Shaft98.1 FM to debunk the rumours. He said the song was a record on collaboration project they were working on with Agyengo Papaz.

on June, 2014 GOOD LIFE mixtape artwork was unveiled on JAY KENN's official facebook page with the caption ''And it's here family, the official artwork of good life mixtape by yours truly. Now let's spread the word!''. The artwork was unveiled without no date of release.

Two months later another single was dropped dubbed Hating The N!gga. Music critics rated the record as a classic and took over the radios in Obuasi shortly after it's release. It wasn't really a gig on the music site though. There was no sign of the mixtape being dropped and JAY KENN (then, ElJay) tweeted that the team wanted to make everything perfect for listeners and he was sorry for the delay.

November, 2014 the mixtape was leaked online with 9 songs and it spread quick because of the anticipation for it. JAY KENN's team was silence about the whole issue but in the ending days of December, 2014 the mixtape link was shared on his social media pages. Instead of good life mixtape, it was rather the long journey mixtape and a whole different artwork with the caption THE LONG JOURNEY ALBUM OFFICIAL 2014, @LANCEARTS MADE THE ARTS, ENJOY FAMILY!. It had 14 songs plus two instrumentals of two songs on the project that was produced by KENN himself.

'Wind Am' featuring Agyengo Papaz become the hit single on the mixtape surpassing the already released hits F.I.A.V and Hating The N!gga as it got more than 2,000 plays on hulkshare. It also became the most played song on the project. It was an afro beats song that had JAY KENN rap about a girl he met and Agyengo Papaz also sing for that particular girl. It was acclaimed the best JAY KENN at that time. The whole project had close to 5,000 streams on hulkshare only. JAY KENN and his team later disclosed that they were overwhelmed by the success of the project and they have passed their target big time. A deluxe version of the project was released later on November the next year on audiomack.com.