"Naeto C" was born on December 17th in Houston Texas spent his earlier years growing up in England and Nigeria within a household hugely influenced by music. His likeness for music grew fast and was articulated into other creative art forms, most specifically poetry, which took him to various competitions and earned him accolade as a young poet during his earlier years. Naeto would later move to The United States to further a higher education both in SUNY Old Westbury and a year later, George Washington University. While in the states, Naeto linked up with Uzikwendu and his brother, Ikechukwu, an up and coming Hip Hop artist out of Washington Heights, NY. The trio formed the World Famous Akademy, an aspiring Record Label but most importantly, a brotherhood between them and their close friends. While in the States, Naeto C recorded over 40 to 50 songs as a solo artist and about 25 songs with the World Famous Akademy as a group. Naeto graduated in 2004 with a B Sc. in Biology. His original intention was pursuing a professional career within the medical field but like most creative artists, ""Naeto C", opted to drop the medical career path and follow one that would be more accommodating to his creative side like that of entertainment industry. His budding sense of self-employment, being an entrepreneur and numerous business ideas were catalysts to making a career change, however, furthering his educational background remained a priority. Within this period, Storm Records had expressed interest in signing the World Famous Akademy after hearing their material on a local radio stations. Coincidentally, one of the co-owners of Storm, Obi Asika, was an older cousin of Naeto. Years prior to Storm indicating interest in the World Famous Akademy, Naeto had already played earlier material of himself and his group to Obi. He received Obi's message from. South Africa about signing the World Famous Akademy trio, Naeto notified the rest of the group and introduced Ikechukwu to Obi over the phone and in person in December 2005. A year later both Naeto and Ikechukwu would return to Nigeria at the beginning of 2006 and Ikechukwu would release his debut album titled "Son of the Soil", laying the foundation for "Naeto C" and the World Famous Akademy. While in Nigeria, Naeto got admission into University of Hertfordshire, to pursue a Masters in Biotechnology. Having found the ideal recording home that would provide the flexibility to nurture a career in music alongside a Masters program in the UK, signing a record deal with Storm was a perfect match. He started working as an in-house producer with his newly discovered production team "ET-Quake" (Consisting of TY Mix and VC Perez). His first single from his unreleased debut album, “Sitting on Top” is a phenomenal piece of work, with a delightful video to go with it. The song has been sitting on the charts from Soundcity to MTV Base for weeks and is still going strong. He recently shot the video for his next single “You Know My P”. Naeto was able to display his production skills working with Storm artists like Sasha, Dare Art-Alade, GT the Guitarman, Disconnect, Saro-Wiwa and Nkiru. Within a year of working with the aforementioned artists, Naeto had successfully recorded over 60 songs including his most recent album material (a bulk of which he co-produced with ET-Quake). A notable production achievement is the "I Believe” song Naeto wrote and co-produced with VC Perez (member of ET-Quake) which features himself, an up and coming R&B/Gospel artist, Sheun and the Legendary Hugh Masekela from South Africa. Within the same year Naeto garnered a lot of experience performing, from Ikechukwu's album launch to Channel O awards to the I Believe Tour to Always promo tour with Sasha and many more gigs, in preparation for the phenomenal MTN Homecoming Concert, headlined by a popular friend, Nigerian pop sensation, D'banj. Thus far "Naeto C" has recorded over 80 songs for his Debut with production that transcends today's Hip Hop sound. From the Fela inspired "Lagos City Hustla" the most articulate reflection of Hip-Hop/Afro-beat till date to the down-south-melody-stricken "Sitting on Top", Naeto C has broken all boundaries and surpassed more limits than any up and coming artist, lyrically and production wise. Naeto C is set to release his debut album U know my P at the end of June and the album features 17 tracks which are “Ashawo”, “U know my P”, “Sitting on top”, “Lagos city hustler”, Imara mma” “The one for me “ “Made in Lagos”, “Facebook”, “Bamilo”, “Superman”,”ki ni big deal”. Aside from the production which will be mostly Naeto C and his production team, other details of the album will be disclosed to the public in due course. The single “Ki ni big deal” is already a club banger and has started tearing the radio air waves, the song eventhough it just got released to the radio staions has received massive airplay in the radio stations and has debuted at the top ten charts at number 5 making this song a certificate monster hit. The video is currently enjoying non stop rotation on MTV. He has worked with quite a number of artist on their own individual projects, artist like Ikechukwu, Dare art Alade, Tuface Idibia, Gangstar, M.I, Sasha, GT the guitarman, Jazzman Olofin. He has bagged a lot of award nominations like the Hip Hop World Awards 2007 Best new artist category, Hip Hop World Awards 2008 best rap artist, Nigeria Music Video Awards 2007 best rap video, Soundcity Music Video 2008 Awards best rap video and best new artist.
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