UEL Student is Number One in the UK singles chart three weeks running
Tuesday 12 May 2009
A University of East London (UEL) student is top of the UK singles charts for the third week in a row with his catchy grime tune Number One.
Tinchy Stryder, real name Kwasi Danquah, 22, from Bow, is in his final year at UEL studying for a BA Honours in Moving Image and Animation.
His hit single features N-Dubz a MOBO award winning hip-hop trio from London, who have recently been gaining a steady teenage fanbase. Tinchy is Ghanaian, grew up in London and has been around the grime scene – England’s version of home-grown garage and rap for many years.
Marc Coker, Senior Lecturer in Moving Image at UEL, has been working with Tinchy on his course. He said: “Tinchy is an exceptional student and highlights the talent we have at UEL. He is also very down to earth and has worked very hard to get this far, so congratulations to him for being number one, in every sense!
“As part of a vibrant East London music scene that includes the likes of Dizzee Rascal, who is also from Bow, Tinchy’s success now means that he’s incredibly busy. Grime music started off underground and like all good music, has eventually worked its way overground. It’s all about rhyming and rhyming slang.”
Tinchy received funding help with the aid of Liberal Democrat MP, Norman Lamb, who remortgaged his house to help raise money to chart Tinchy’s early songs. Tinchy’s producer is Norman’s son, Archie Lamb.
After performing on pirate radio stations in his early teens, including Deja Vu and Rinse, Tinchy became a big part of the underground scene. In 2003, he won the best newcomer at the Sidewinder awards and since then he has worked with major artists on the grime scene including Wiley and Dizzee Rascal.
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