Tekno Miles Biography, Music Career, Top Songs, New Music and Net worth
8 October 2020
[Photo Credit:Instagram Tekno]
By Kenneth Kiplagat
Artist as Singer-Songwriter: Tekno
Real Name: Augustine Miles Kelechi
Date of Birth: December 17,1992 (27 Years Old)
Genre: Afrobeats
Net Worth: $2 million
Where is Tekno from? Who Is Tekno?
Tekno /Golden of Africa/Slim Daddy is a Nigerian musician, producer, performer and dancer. He was born in Bauchi State. He grew up in multiple states Nassarawa, Kaduna and Abuja due to his father being in the army they travelled a lot.
How did Tekno start his music career?
Tekno started to attend music schools at age 8.Tekno was first signed to K-Money Entertainment.
He produced his first single Holiday under the label. In 2012 he performed his ‘Onye Ne Kwu' at an event in Abuja and got the attention of comedian Julius Agwu , Iyanya and Ubi Franklyn. Ubi Franklyn was the manager of Made Men Music Group who got him a recording contract on October 5,2013 with Made Men Group. Tekno Miles moved from Abuja to Lagos to further his music career.
He released ‘Dance' and and ‘Anything’ under his new label. The two singles won him nominations at the 2014 Nigeria Entertainment Awards. In 2015 Tekno hit the world with his single ‘Duro' which topped Nigerian charts and ranked no.5 on Capital XTRA’s Afrobeat Chart :Top 10 in the US. In 2015 he dropped another single titled Wash, produced by DJ Coublon.
In 2016 the golden boy dropped his first album Basstards. In 2016 he dropped GO,In 2017 Pana , Jogodo in 2018. He took a break from music due to a vocal infection he got but successfully recovered from it and dropped ‘Agege' with Zlatan.
Tekno is credited as a songwriter for many artists. He wrote and produced ‘if' for Davido. Produced several tracks, Catch You by Flavour, Panya by Brackets , Boss by Ice Prince ,Show by Victoria Kimani and Won’t be late for Swae Lee and Drake.
Tekno Top Songs
2014 - "Dance" "Shoki"(featuring B-Red) "Go Low" "Mess" "Zima" "Jonzing" "Anything"
2015 - "Duro" "Maria" "Wash"
2016 - "Where" "Pana" "Rara"
2017 - "Yawa" "Be" "Samantha" "Go" "Mama"(featuring Wizkid) "Only One"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPe57sFzjhw&ab_channel=TeknoMilesVEVO
2018/2019 - "Your Luv" "Jogodo" "Choko" "Woman" "Body"(featuring Kizz Daniel) "Uptempo" "Skeletun"
2020 - "Beh Beh"(featuring Masterkraft) "Kata" "Sudden" "PuTTin"
Tekno Awards
2014 2014 Nigeria Entertainment Awards Best New Act of The Year
2015 9th Nigeria Music Video Awards Best Pop Extra Video
2016 2016 Nigeria Entertainment Awards Hottest Single, Best Music Video of the Year,Afropop Artist of the Year
2016 MTV Africa Music Awards 2016 Best New Act
WatsUp TV Africa Music Video Awards African Video of the Year
Best African Male Video
Best West African Video
Best Afro Pop Video
2017 BET Award 2017 Best International Act Africa
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