Kaye Styles
Ghanian-Belgian singer, rapper, songwriter and TV personality
Kaye Styles, born Kwasi Gyasi, is a Belgian singer, songwriter, and TV personality best known for the theme song of the international soundtrack of the hit television series Prison Break produced in 2006.
Early life
Kaye Styles, whose birth name is Kwasi Gyasi was born in Ghana on 8 November 1981. He came to Belgium when he was five years old.
Career
First album
In 2004, he released his first single "Gimme the Mic" from his first album The True Definition Of Styles. This became a modest hit in Belgium. Later that year he released "Somebody's Watchin' Me" (a "Michael Jackson cover") and "Safe Sex" with Laura Ramaekers.
Eurovision
In 2006 Styles entered the Belgian National selection for the Eurovision Song Contest with the song "Profile". He finished third in the quarter-finals and second in the semi-finals. Johnny Logan one of the judges, and two-time Eurovision Song Contest winner, was so impressed by Styles' performance that they later recorded a single together, "Don't Cry / I Love to Party" which are a mash up of Logan's "Hold Me Now" and ""What's Another Year". The songs are featured on Styles' second album It Iz What It Iz and third album entitled Main Event.
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