Clement Foh Baah, born (February 1988) is a Ghanaian musician and songwriter known as Ahkan and Osrane. He is a member of the music group

Ruff n Smooth Ruff n Smooth is a Ghanaian-based music group made up of Ruff/Bullet (Musician), Bullet (Ricky Nana Agyemang) & Smooth/Ahkan (Clement Baah Foh). Although both have been on the music scene for a while, it was not till they formed an alliance tha ...

with Ricky Nana Agyemang (aka

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), manager of

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act

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Early life

Ahkan is the third of six children. He was born and raised in

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to his mother Felicia Nyantaktiwaah. Ahkan started singing as a teenager while studying at Asamankese Methodist. His high school certificate was gained from

O'Reilly Senior High School O'Reilly Senior High School ( /əʊˈraɪliː/ ''oh-RY-lee)'',popularly known as "O'REISCO" is a co-educational boarding school located at Okpoi-Gonno in the Ledzokuku-Krowor Municipal District , Accra, Ghana. History The school was establishe ...

in Accra. Ahkan continued at

Takoradi Technical University Takoradi Technical University is a public tertiary education institution (university) located in Sekondi-Takoradi, the capital of the Western Region of Ghana. Takoradi Technical University was established as a Government Technical Institute ...

and studied Commercial Arts. There he began writing songs for other artists.

Music career

Osrane was discovered in 2001 with singles including ''Ohi Niwa and Suro Nipa''. In early 2005, he had a breakthrough song dubbed 'Eye Asem' (Your Wife & Your Mother, song produced by Morris Babyface.) Osrane then met

to form a group. That was the beginning of Ruff N Smooth where Etuoaboba took the name Bullet (Ruff) and Osrane took Ahkan (Smooth). They released their first single, ''Medi Wo Dwa'' which was remixed by

as Hustle. Following "Medi Wo Dwa"'', ''they also released "Monalisa". Their third single "Swagger" became their first international hit.

Solo projects

June 2017, Ahkan announced release of ''Barawo'' (Thief). Another single "Amina" talks about the barriers in inter-marriage in the world, especially Africa.

Collaborations

Ahkan has worked with artists including Bay C of

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, the African dancehall artist

Shatta Wale Charles Nii Armah Mensah Jr., (born 17 October 1984) is a Ghanaian reggae-dancehall artist. He is known by his stage name Shatta Wale, formerly Bandana. His best-known singles are "Dancehall King", "My level" and "We taking over" .He is also know ...

, Asumadu and Wizboy. He was featured on a release by Duke, former member of D2. In July 2020 he featured Ablekuma Nana Lace, AY Poyoo and Shatta Bundle on the song Blessing.The song was mixed by Tom Beatz, produced by Citrus Beatz and hosted by DJ Xpliph

References

https://www.ghanaweb.com/GhanaHomePage/entertainment/Ahkan-signs-deal-with-Fakum-Xtra-Gold-Mining-Limited-891043

External links

Ahkan Ruff N Smooth
on Facebook {{DEFAULTSORT:Ahkan Living people Ghanaian musicians Musicians from Accra 1983 births