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Awaga

musical artist

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 27, 2026
Entity authorityQ64853115
Source-derived summary

Albert McCarthy Boateng, professionally known as Awaga, is a Ghanaian record producer, sound engineer and disc jockey.

Early life

Boateng Albert was born on August 20, 1994.

Career

Awaga began his career in 2014, combining beat making with side mixing and mastering. He has worked with artists such as Stonebwoy and R2Bees.

Discography

His major productions include Live In Love (Livingstone EP) by Stonebwoy which was considered for 2017 Grammy Award nominations, "We Made It" by Stonebwoy ft. R2Bees, "Enku Lenu" by Stonebwoy, "Guy Guy" by Stonebwoy ft Bisa Kdei, "Behw3 " by Dj Killer Fingers ft VVIP & Miyaki, "Anafra" by Miyaki, "Jah Love" by Eye Judah, "Support" by Eye Judah, "Beautiful Soul" by Eye Judah, "Sugar" by Dawuni X Dawuni(DXD) and "Jah Jah" by Netherlands-based Ghanaian reggae / dancehall artiste Dominiq.

In 2017, his first project The Shanti Riddim featured 30 artists from Africa and around the globe.

Editorial summary

“Awaga” enters the record as musical artist. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Awaga, musical and artist can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA useful biographical orientation record, particularly for establishing names, roles and a first chronology. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1994, 2014, 2017—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1994-08-20. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Awaga, musical and artist.
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Why this record matters

“Awaga” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Awaga, musical and artist provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

The entry’s evidential value lies in the named roles, institutions and publications that can be tested against primary documentation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 27, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q64853115. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1994, 2014 and 2017.

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Public reputation and documentary evidence do not always develop together; absence from a summary is not evidence of historical absence. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

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This entry incorporates text from Awaga” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.