Biography Of Created Artist

Name: Dan Kenny Andrews, Stage name DeeKay

Age: 19 (4th February 1993)

Birthplace: St Georges Hospital, Tooting

Genre of Music: Hip-Hop, Rap, Comedy

Record Label: Rostrum Records

Dan Kenny Andy was born on the 4^th February 1993 at St Georges Hospital, Tooting; Raised in a flat infested estate, in Wandsworth to a mother working for a local Café and a father who worked as a delivery driver for various companies working through the night. However at the age of 3 his parents were suffering from drug and alcohol addiction, their continuous violence and arguments effected Dan’s upbringing, he adopted his parents violent ways at a young age. Gangs in the estate contributed to Dans behaviour. There were frequently arguments between his parents over payment and intoxicated violence when they were under the influence of drugs. His parents split up when Dan was at the age of 5, his father was unheard of for nearly 2 years.

He was not very academic student at school and failed in maths, science and English. However, he showed a talent for music, poetry and rhymed from a young age to rappers such as Eminem, Dr Dre, 2 Pac and Notorious B.I.G. At the age of 14 Deekay was having a hard, his Mum was constantly becoming drunk and snorting cocaine, when his mum was like this she would physically abuse him almost setting the flat on fire and locking all the doors, luckily neighbours nearby smelt the fumes and broke down the door . After that incident Dan left home and school to stay with his friend at his older Brother’s place for approximately 5 months. However from this he began smoking and progressed to taking drugs such as marijuana and Cocaine.

Deekay was always making mix tapes from home of various songs put together but wasn’t being able to make up his career of creating songs and singles. So he contacted HoodVideoShop located in London and emailed his first song he had written which was called ‘Inside’. HoodVideoShop liked the lyrics of the song and called In Deekay to Record himself spitting lyrics to see how well he performed, they were very pleased with the results and began the production of the music and the videos. HoodVideoShops’ YouTube Channel posted Deekay’s first single and music video and was seeing much interest from the public creating over 100,000 views in less than 2 months. In late 2010 Dan was then founded on YouTube by Rostrum Records which wanted him to be flown to America, Deekay packed up his bags said goodbye to the UK and headed off to the USA and their began to start working on his first album called ‘High Going’ which was released in August 2011. His Music Began dominating part of the music industry and his music was being listened to kids in areas of Eastern America and starting spreading back to the UK where Deekay Originated from.

Deekay is back in the UK producing his new single ‘Kool Aid and a Frozen pizzas’ which is aimed at the UK audience but is hoping to sell over in the USA as well and after is looking into having a tour in both countries.