Kano

Kano's Biography

Kano attended Langdon Secondary School with his best friend, Raghav, achieving a diploma in graphic design, having a flair for visual communication and graphic publicity. In his younger years Kano was a promising footballer, representing Chelsea, West Ham United and Norwich City by the age of 13, but in the end he abandoned his sporting ambitions in favour of a musical career. Kano first became known on the UK grime scene for his work.

Rap on the underground scene on Flava F.M as a youth after a couple of years he joined N.A.S.T.Y. Crew (Natural Artistic Sounds Touching You) who were an east London-based Grime crew with the original and most popular line-up consisting of Kano, Jammer, D Double E, Ghetto, Stormin, Mak 10, Sharky Major & Hyper. N.A.S.T.Y Crew had one of the most popular shows on pirate radio station Deja Vu on Monday nights from 8pm to 10pm, the sets featuring established and up and coming special guests such as Dizzee Rascal, Durrty Goodz, Wiley etc.

Kano used the crews underground popularity as a springboard and left N.A.S.T.Y. His first solo track was "Boys Love Girls", which was produced in 2002, and was later taken to a studio and remastered by Dizzee Rascal. Kano is still fondly remembered by his early Grime fans as a member of N.A.S.T.Y crew. He was then signed as a solo artist and began work on his début solo album, Home Sweet Home.

Albums

Kano

Method to the Madness

140 Grime Street

London Town

Home Sweet Home