Lil Kesh - Keshinro Ololade

Keshinro Ololade Biography / Profile

Keshniro Ololade who goes by the stage name 'Lil Kesh' was born on 14th of March 1995 and hails from Lagos State.

Keshinro Ololade Age

Keshinro Ololade is 29 years old.

Keshinro Ololade Early Life

He completed his primary and secondary school education at Stockbridge College, Bariga before going to the University of Lagos to study Linguistics. Lil Kesh who had to defer his admission because of his hectic schedule disclosed lately in an interview with Punch that he is currently enrolled at National Open University Of Nigeria (NOUN) where he is studying Mass Communication.

His father being a pastor, Lil Kesh grew up around music, he was part of the choir, learning to play drums, and attending music shows

He started out dancing before he delved into music after watching some of his peers rap.

Keshinro Ololade Career

Lil Kesh started his career by attending several talent hunt competitions and winning some of them which made me quite popular in school.

His professional music career started in 2012 but he became popular in 2014 after he recorded his first single titled “Lyrically” which was positively accepted mainly by students in Nigerian universities. His friend, Viktoh who is signed to the YBNL label shared his song with YBNL boss Olamide and on 2 April 2014, he signed his first music contract with YBNL Nation.

After signing on to YBNL Nation, Lil Kesh released "Shoki" which brought him into the spot light.

On 23 February 2015, Kesh released a song titled “Gbese” which was produced by Young Jonn with the music video featuring cameo appearances from Skuki. He released another banging hit song mid 2015, "Efejoku" featuring label mate Viktor.

On March 17, 2016, he released his debut studio album titled Y.A.G.I featuring guest appearances from notable music acts including Olamide, Phyno, Davido, Adekunle Gold, YCEE, Wale, Viktor and Patoranking.

He has been criticised heavily for using too much vulgar sentences and not finding the right balance in the lyrics of his songs. The rapper responded to this by saying the target audience for most of his songs were the street people, and that he had to connect with them.

On April 26, 2016, he announced via Instagram that he has established his own label imprint called YAGI (Young And Getting It) Records with Olamide later confirming the news through the same medium following the expiration of Lil Kesh’s 2-year recording contract with YBNL Nation.

He has been nominated for several awards including-

Best Street-Hop Artiste category at The Headies 2014 for 'Shoki'

Hottest Single of the Year at the 2015 Nigeria Entertainment Awards for 'Shoki' remix

Best New Act to Watch category at the 2015 Nigeria Entertainment Awards

2015 Headies Award for Next Rated.

2015 – Tooxclusive – The Best New Artiste.

He has been invited to perform at the AMA Awards 2015 in South Africa which was another major progress in his music career.

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Keshinro Ololade Personal Life

There has been rumors that Olamide and Lil Kesh are brothers but in fact, these two famous rappers are not relatives, and the connection between them is YBNL.

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