Biography
It's over a year since Ty released his debut album "Awkward" (Big Dada label) to critical acclaim, he has grown from underground mc to an artist who is developing an international reputation.
In between working on the all important second album Ty is taking time to collaborate with a variety of musicians, he has recently completed tracks with Fela Kuti's drummer Tony Allen for his album which is due out in September which includes Ty and Damon Albarn on a track, Ty will join Tony on tour which takes in Glastonbury as well shows around Europe this summer. Ty has been touring Scandinavia with Norwegian band Mojo & He Man, their single "I Am Somebody" featuring Ty is due out soon. Ty is also featured on a forthcoming album which is being released by French production set up "African Conscience", also features, Dead Prez, Sizzla and Tony B among a host of others.
TY's family moved to the UK from Nigeria , although their son was born here in London . But, "in the early 70s when a lot of Nigerian people were settling here it was hard - to the point that you had to work all day and maybe all night and if you had children you couldn't look after them. So a lot of Nigerian children went through the fostering thing. Or part time fostering. And I was part of that. I was getting on two buses at the age of four, five. I had the responsibility of my little sister from quite an early age." Although Ty was back with his parents full time by the age of six, the sense of being an outsider, of not belonging, remained. Then came hip hop: "It was in primary school, one of those parents night. I was playing my xylopohone - I thought I was hip. Then these guys came in and started doing body popping to "ETs Boogie" and I was like "WHAT. IS. THIS?" Xylophones meant nothing. To this day I still wanna be them. They had me."
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