Kwesi Arthur

Tema, Greater Accra, Ghana - “My music is Tema. My music describes my journey,” says Kwesi Arthur. Hailing from the Ghanaian harbortown, his work chronicles his incredible rags-to-riches story. “I feel like my music is a journal sometimes,” he explains. “Everything I feel, everything I go through, I express it through the music.” It’s his lyrical talent and soaring ambition that make him particularly great, because it’s not just music he’s making, it’s hope. “Where I'm from, people aren't given these opportunities, we don't have access to much. So you gotta make use of what you get. My fight is about going from having nothing to getting closer and closer to my dreams everyday. I'm moving towards something. And my music is guiding me to that.” Since he first burst on the scene with his 2017 hit single “Grind Day,” he’s rapidly risen to become one of the brightest stars in Ghana’s burgeoning music scene where the rap