Sena Dagadu

i was born in accra, ghana, to a hungarian mother and a ghanaian father. i grew up in accra with 2 siblings and a heavy dose of music. i began my musical journey unnoficially in 2001 in Budapest Hungary. A chance meeting with dj mango, dj bosi and other well known hungarian underground hip hop and dancehall djs and mcs bloomed into a tight friendship and working relationship that was based around freestyle hip hop.the crew ,gimmeshot crew, at the time ran a weekly dancehall, hip hop night in a local budapest club. this gave birth to sena’s and gimmeshot record labels first release,”sena first one.” The album became an instant success in the underground scene in hungary and resulted in a boost of performances and live shows for the years that followed. Although the album was not distributed outside hungary, it managed to reach hands and ears all over europe and in ghana. The years following the album release saw me working with many musicians from many different genres, including the improvisation abstract hip hop band skeg, balkan funk jazz band kamu, austrian dzihan and kamien of couch records, dj cadik, djvadim of bbe records,easy life natural,sabrine el hossamy,dj spider and the colourblind allstars, dj cadik, irie mafia reggea band , dizko stu,barabas lorinc eklektric ,reggie rockstone,wanlov the kubolor,refractory,and many other wicked artists, djs, performers,lyricists,wonderful people. everyday something new happens:) currently i am about to release a new album with my band Sena and the Forward Ever Band and am also putting finishing touches to a reggae album with France;s Irie ITes crew.as well as being fully commited to playing live all over europe with Irie Maffia. so im keeping busy and have nuff goodstuff in the oven!