Kovas

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Kovas

Background information
Birth name	Kovasciar Myvette
Born	August 1, 1981
Origin	Brooklyn, New York
Genre(s)	Hip hop, R&B, Pop, Rock
Occupation(s)	Rapper, Actor, Record Producer
Years active	2000–present (producer/rapper/songwriter) 1998–present (acting)
Label(s)	Ghetto Beat Productions
Associated acts	De La Soul, Nick Cannon, Billy Crawford, Jeannie Ortega, Freq Nasty
Website	ghettobeat.com

Kovas (born Kovasciar Myvette, August 1, 1981, Brooklyn, New York) is a songwriter, record producer and recording artist of Spanish and French decent (Central America and Morroco).

He has produced and remixed records for Nick Cannon, De La Soul, Nicole Wray, Jeannie Ortega, Shakira, Lady Sovereign, Kelis, Papoose, Freq Nasty and Billy Crawford. He has done ghost production and songwriting for a lot of successful artists before branching out on his own.

He is currently working on his own solo project. His song "Up In Here"[1] is featured on the Chocolate Swim Adult Swim Cartoon Network compilation.

He is featured on Jeannie Ortega's No Place Like BKLYN album, on which, he wrote and produced three songs; "Pay It" featuring Kovas, "Green I'z" and "Hear Me". He is also featured on the Billy Crawford album, Big City. He produced and wrote four songs on it, including the single "Steamy Nights" and "Steamy Nights Ghetto Beat Remix".

Kovas has a production company called Ghetto Beat Productions.

His first recorded appearance was on the De La Soul record, Words And Verbs, which he wrote, co-produced and rapped on with Maseo of De La Soul when he was 17.

Kovas has appeared on tour with De La Soul, Billy Crawford and Jeannie Ortega. Kovas plays five instruments, sings, raps and engineers on most of his productions. He has done musical scores for film and TV, winning an Art Directors Award for the ad campaign he wrote and scored for Noggin television.

He has also scored music for a Levi's jeans ad campaign and a documentary film, Hip Hop Immortals.

Kovas' song "Up in Here" was featured in an episode of MTVs' series Maui Fever The response to the song was so great that The "Maui Fever" Fansite [2] would later post an article featuring Kovas and talking about his song.

Feb 13, 2007 Kovas released his debut ep The Arrogance of Youth EP" thorough his own digital label, Ghetto Beat.

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EP cover	EP information
	The Arrogance of Youth EP Released: Feb 13, 2007 Written, Composed, Performed, Arranged and Produced by Kovas: "Say What" "Popsicle", "Love And Touch","Popcorn", "The Break Up Song","T.O.A.K","Up In Here"

Album cover	Album information
	No Place Like BKLYN Released: August 1, 2006 Produced: "Pay It" featuring Kovas, "Green I'z", "Hear Me"

EP cover	EP information
	Chocolate Swim Released: June 26, 2006 Genre: Hip hop Length: 24:09 Label:Adultswim.com Produced: Kovas- "Up In Here", & in between song host and pro tools editing