Jayso

Paul Nuamah Donkor (born June 1, 1983), better known by his stage name Jayso, is a Ghanaian record producer, rapper, singer and sound engineer. He is the CEO and founder of Skillions Records.

Early life

As a youth, Jayso was largely influenced by the music of many classic hip-hop and jazz acts like Das Efx, Tribe Called Quest, Nat King Cole and Frank Sinatra and it wasn't long before he decided to pick that path as a career himself. After years of honing his skill at home, Jayso decided to take it a step further by starting a group which has come to be known the Skillions. A contraction for skills in a million, the name is a depiction of the group’s depth in talent. He kicked of with his partner in rhyme Terry Thomas Tetteyfio a.k.a. T- Kube when they were both students at the Presbyterian Boys' Secondary School, Legon, in 1999. Along the way he took a detour and became a member of another group known as The Haatsville Project, composed of JPE now ‘Kobi Onyame’, Mr. Scratch and The Canz. The group offered him a professional outlook to music and the desire to make beats. The group released their first production in 2002 titled the Haatsville Project with entire production handled by JPE and Jayso.^[1]

Music career

2002–present

After his little stint with Haatsville Project, Jayso decided to use his improved knowledge to resurrect the Skillions while enlisting EL, J-town, NKP and Midknight along the way. Jayso's bedroom became a makeshift studio where they made their first banger titled the Skillions Demotapes. The mixtape, the first of its kind in Ghana, created some major buzz which spread throughout the whole of Africa. After a while, Gh Rap became an accepted music genre in the Ghanaian music industry, and many musicians started categorizing their music under that genre.^[2]

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