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“Michael Kafui Gamos (born June 23), best known by his stage name STARGO, is a Ghanaian rapper, singer, creative director and producer from Accra, Ghana. He is a noted director under the pseudonym MA-KAF. STARGO is also known for taking on multiple alter-egos under the aliases Da Problem, Trippy Jiggy Niggy and TripleR. In late 2009, Stargo teamed up with the hiphop group GREENFIELD and recorded an EP which could have got the trio signed but Stargo chose to be independent, whilst the two other members of the group got signed to CRYME RECORDS in 2010. He continued to work on singles that he released without a broadcast, which featured Ghanaian artist like Chase, Trigmatic, Kazuka, Kevin Beats, to name a few. Subsequently, he began recording his debut studio mixtape album SIT OPEN UP LISTEN (S.O.U.L) and released it independently on November 8, 2012. The album went on to get stream more than 3200 downloads as at January 2013. STARGO in a later interview affirmed that “Mind Over Matter” was his personal piece on the mixtape, as the song had rhymes about personal life issues and people that were close to him but who had drifted apart with time as well as his relationship with his girlfriend whom he broke up with during the time of the project. Still in 2013, STARGO got featured on a mixtape project produced by COPTIC titled THE RISING STARS OF GH VOLUME 1 and he got the most downloaded song on the album. A remix was later released featuring Kwaw Kesse and E.L ON February 23, 2013 which did pretty well with a constant rotation on the airwaves and massive appeal of downloads. On June 5th 2013, STARGO released his first afrobeat song titled WITHOUT YOU featuring Joey B and E.L produced by E.L which was reported to have massive plays on tv and radio in the United Kingdom, Australia and some parts of the United States. In early 2016, Stargo launched NoisBois Unruly Music, his own independent label imprint, named after his childhood ways as he was known to be very troublesome. Stargo's second mixtape album, GAINING ONES DEFINITION (G.O.D) was released on July 31st 2014. EARLY LIFE Michael Kafui Gamos Jnr was born on June 23, 1985 in Lapaz, Accra-Ghana, the son of Doris Abui Sabblah, a commercial book trader and Michael Kwaku Ahadzi Gamos snr, a spare parts dealer. With both parents Christian, STARGO was raised Christian and baptized at an early age. He celebrates Christmas, Easter and all the christian holidays and practices Christianity. He was raised in Lapaz and later relocated to New Achimota. Stargo attended Jacobs International School and Koforidua Secondary Technical School for his basic and senior high education respectively. It was in high school that Stargo’s passion for music heightened and he decided to focus on a hiphop career, later noting, “…Once I finish college, I got real serious about it and it changed my life completely”...I used to play basketball, swim and go to all night clubs and parties in town.” But once he found out music was a profession, he set up his own studio and taught himself how to play instruments, record and direct/edit videos. 2007-10 STARGO first started rapping at an early age of sixteen. At the time, it was simply a gaiety, he didn't know he was going to take it this far. He performed at funworld, kidafest, etc when he was in junior high school. Prior to changing his name to STARGO, he was known as Bizzy Bone and released his first hiphop project STARGOVILLE.”