| English People of Akan Descent: Adam Afriyie, Adelaide Damoah, Adrien Sauvage, Belinda Owusu, Cliff Akurang, David Adjaye, Dennis Tuffour, Dizzee Rasc Contributor(s): Source Wikipedia (Author), Books, LLC (Editor), Group, Books (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1157619819 ISBN-13: 9781157619819 Publisher: Books LLC, Wiki Series OUR PRICE: $14.85 Product Type: Paperback Published: December 2012 * Not available - Not in print at this time * |
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| Publisher Description: Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 27. Chapters: Adam Afriyie, Adelaide Damoah, Adrien Sauvage, Belinda Owusu, Cliff Akurang, David Adjaye, Dennis Tuffour, Dizzee Rascal, Eric Boateng, Eugene Ankomah, Freema Agyeman, Idris Elba, Kevin Amankwaah, Kwesi Appiah, Lethal Bizzle, Ottobah Cugoano, Terry Baddoo. Excerpt: Dylan Kwabena Mills (born 18 September 1984), better known by his stage name Dizzee Rascal, is an English rapper, MC, songwriter and record producer with African roots in Ghana and Nigeria. His music is a blend of grime, garage, hip hop, rap, electronic and R&B. Best known for his number-one hits "Dance wiv Me," "Bonkers," "Holiday," "Dirtee Disco" & "Shout," his debut album, Boy in da Corner, won him the 2003 Mercury Prize. Follow-up albums Showtime, Maths + English and Tongue n' Cheek have all been critically acclaimed and certified gold, the last going platinum for sales exceeding 300,000 units in the United Kingdom. Mills' father died when he was young, and he was raised in Bow, in the East End of London in a single-parent family by his Ghanaian mother Priscilla, about whom he says: "I had issues as a kid. I was violent and disruptive. The way my mum helped was by finding me a different school every time I got kicked out, always fighting to keep me in the school system." He attended a series of schools in East London, and was expelled from four of them, including St Paul's Way Community School he also went to Langdon Park Secondary School in east london. it was a teacher who first called him "Rascal." Cagey about exactly what Mills'youthful "madnesses" entailed, in early interviews he mentioned fighting with teachers, stealing cars and robbing pizza delivery men. In the fifth school he was excluded from all classes except music. He also used to attend YATI (Young Actors Theatre Islington). He began making music on the school's computer, encouraged by a music teacher, Mr Smith, and during the summer holidays attended a music workshop organised by Tower Hamlets Summer University of which he is now a patron. His mother bought him his first turntables. He was a childhood friend of Nigerian footballer Danny Shittu, whom Mills described as "like a big brother." Dizzee Rascal once told author Ben Thompson in an interview with the Sunday's Observer magazine that ever |