Biography:
Sing "a" teh or Freaky Joe is a performer of Gambian
hip-hop, Afro Manding, reggae and ragatone.
In February 2008 he won the best selling solo artist award by
Gam-Spirit Music Award organised by Champion Sounds Promotions
at a colourful ceremony held at the
Kairaba Beach Hotel.
Singateh’s Inc is a company established by Singateh a.k.a Freaky
Joe and his Manager Pa Ousman Joof on April 10th 2006 during Singateh’s
USA tour in college park , Atlanta, Ga.
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Born as Alhagie Singateh in 1982 in a small riverine
community in the hinterlands of The Gambia, Sing-a-teh (A.K.A.
Freaky Joe) at a very tender age, has portrayed a resounding talent
as both an academician and a musician. Between spending Friday
nights doing acapellas in street squares to performing at school
events, Sing-a-teh was already on the track to creating a hobby
that would eventually lead to a life-long passion for him.
Sing-a-teh spent his entire
Primary School education and Middle School education in Bansang,
and shortly attended Armitage High School before transferring
to Gambia High School in the Greater Banjul Area. Sing-a-teh has
played numerous roles in and out of his school career. He has
served as a student prefect and a student deputy head boy during
his school days in Bansang.
Sing a teh's music career started in 2001 when he composed his
first single "GAMSAINTS RECONCILIATION" a song dedicated
to Gambian students urging them to reconcile and put aside there
differences for national interest. Composed during the Gamsaints
Reconciliation week The success from this effort earned him the
much needed respect, and popularity from all sectors of the Gambian
community and afar.
Following the popularity of his first single, he dropped another
one entitled "More Message", a song that calls for youth
empowerment. The reception and success of these two singles earned
him the "Best Solo Artist of the Year 2001"," West
Coast Radio Artist of the Year 2002", YIDAC PILLAR of the
Year 2002, "FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN" and several other
titles and awards. From then on, he kept on excelling to higher
heights winning more awards and soon started his own concerts
across the country making his music and lyrics well known and
loved by all and sundry.
The Gambian show biz witnessed a dramatic wind of change since
after the discovery of Sing-a-teh's unique and melodious voice
and due to the quality of beats produced by his mentor, and producer-friend
HAKIM of "THE SUNS OF LIGHT". Sing a teh is the first
Gambian artist whose voice was heard on BBC's famous morning programme
"NETWORK AFRICA”.
He released his first 9 track Audio Album in the local market
of the Gambia in July 2005 and in December of 2005, a 13 track
CD released was for the European Market which was distributed
in major European Countries including Sweden , Germany , England
, Norway Finland. This CD was re-mastered (featuring two new songs)
with a promotional DVD his 2006 U.S. tour, a tour that was facilitated
by the African Artist Association (an agency in the business of
tapping and promoting African Artist the world over headquartered
in Queens-N.Y) served as an eye opener and an extra step in the
right direction for Sing-a-teh as it gave him the opportunity
to forge new relationships and to horn his skills in the music
biz.
Sing-a- teh just finished his 2nd Album with the Sun's of Light
studios in Atlanta and he is back in the Gambia promoting it.
This new album is more of Dance Hall, reggae
and Raggatone; Hip hop compilation and a fusion of indigenous
Senegambian boom "Mbalax",
that is fully fit for any market. He did collaborate with few
American up coming stars.
www.myspace.com/singateh
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Email: paousman146@yahoo.co.uk
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