Shatta Wale's Story....

Shatta Wale(formerly Bandana) was born as Charles Nii Armah Mensah Jnr. on 17 October 1984 at Accra, Ghana. He is a Reggae and Dancehall artise, producer, song writer, Instrumentalist and a Vocalist. He is best known for his biggest breakthrough hit song "Dancehall King" which made him won the Artiste of the Year at the 2014 Ghana Music Awards. He is the leader, chief executive officer (CEO) and founder of the Shatta Movement (SM) or (SM4LYF).

Shatta Wale's musical talent was recognized from Junior High School in Ghana from Datus Preparatory School in the Greater Accra region of Ghana. He later joined Winneba Secondary School where he continued with his tremendous love for music. He co joined another singer and artist Duke Thompson as they became an entertaining group, Duke now with the Group D2, but by then using the stage name "Tobacco" and Shatta wale then using the name "Doggy". Shatta Wale and Tobacco then got so much attention at school that, their seniors and juniors got anticipated with them waiting for their Saturday entertainment bash to arrive early.

Shatta Wale's rise happened at the 2013 VGMAs, with his musical dexterity, he composed a song against the organisers of the Ghana Music Awards titled "Me Need No Awards" because he alleged the organisers robbed him off the Dancehall Artiste of the Year to female Dancehall Artiste Kaakie. Shatta wale's musical revenue is mostly generated through hosting of shows which attracts most 1000's of Ghanaian youths.

In January 2014, Shatta Wale, joined hundreds of Ghanaians to welcome the Queen's Baton Relay, which was on tour of some Commonwealth countries, ahead of the games in August 2014. Grateful for the opportunity given him, he took to social media to thank those who made it happen. He wrote " It happens once in a life time..I will like to thank the president of Ghana and the nation for granting me the opportunity to be part of the change in the queens Baton..God bless my homeland Ghana.#SM4LYF."

In May 2014, British Newspaper, The Guardian, reported that the five must listen to tracks from around the world includes Shatta Wale's song Wine Ya Waist featuring Davidofrom Nigeria.In the same year 2014, his song You Can't Touch Me was widely used for the Dancers Against Racism Campaign Worldwide. In 2014, Shatta Wale was unveiled as one of the brand ambassadors of Guinness Ghana Breweries along with other musicians for Guinness Made of Black campaign.

In 2015, Shatta Wale asked not to be nominated in the Vodafone Ghana Music Awards even though he could have won the Artiste & Song of the year for the second time running with his hit songs "Dancehall Commando" featuring Sarkodie, "Party all night long" featuring Jah Vinci, "Wine ya waist" featuring Davido and "Korle Gonno" among many hit songs he released the preceding year. This was because of a pending court case with the organisers of the awards, Charter House Productions Limited for allegedly making defamatory remarks against the CEO of Charter House in a video he uploaded on his Facebook page. He was named the 38th Most Influential Ghanaian by E-TV Ghana in 2015 in their annual survey of influential people in Ghana.

During Christmas festivities of 2014, Shatta Wale took the opportunity to visit the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital Ghana's biggest hospital to donate generously to the Children's Block worth Thousands of Ghanaian cedi. Shatta Wale, Light A Million Lives and Quallo’s Production along with Gasmilla, Keche, Episode and Dada Halfco donated to the victims of the twin disasters (flood and fire) that occurred in Accra on 3 June 2015 in which hundreds of people lost their lives. The group brought along Food, Water, Antiseptic Liquid, Antiseptic Soap, Wipes, Sanitizers, Clothes and a whole lot of items to support the victims.

Shatta Wale's Awards:

*2014 Channel O Music Video Awards (Most Gifted Ragga Dancehall Video"Everybody Likes My Ting")

*2014 Nigeria Entertainment Awards (African Artist of the Year)

*African Muzik Magazine Awards (Best Male West Africa)

*Best Collaboration of the Year ("Hot Cake" Pope Skinny Featuring Him )

*Nigerian Entertainment Awards (African Artiste of the Year)

*BASS Awards (Best Performer of the Year)

*Best Collaboration of the year (D2 ft. Shatta Wale

*Dancehall Artist of the year (Shatta Wale – Enter the Net)

*GN Bank Awards (People's Choice Male Musician) *2014 International Reggae and World Music Awards (Best New Entertainer)

*JIGWE AWARDS (Jigwe Musician of the Year) *2013 Ghana Music Awards (Reggae Dancehall Song of the Year, "Shatta City")

*2015 African Entertainment Awards (Best African Reggae/Dancehall Artiste)

*2015 African Muzik Magazine Awards (Best Dancehall Artiste)

*2015 International Reggae and World Music Awards (Best Music Video "Shatta Wale-You Can't Touch Me" ) and many more awards...