A * M * E

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Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Singles
Need U (100%) (with Duke Dumont )
  DE 43 05/31/2013 (10 weeks)
  UK 1Template: Infobox chart placements / maintenance / NR1 link
platinum
platinum
04/13/2013 (20 weeks)

A * M * E (born December 13, 1994 in Freetown , Sierra Leone ; actually Aminata Kabba ) is a British musician , composer and singer-songwriter .

Career

2011 Kabba took the pseudonym "M * A * E" the single Beautiful Stranger on that of f (x) (a K-Pop - girl group ) was produced and entered the Top 20 of the South Korean charts.

On December 9, 2012 she was nominated for the " Sound of 2013 ".

In 2013 she released the single Need U (100%) with the music producer Duke Dumont . The song reached number 1 on the UK singles chart.

Influences and style of music

Musically, A * M * E has been influenced mainly by K-Pop musicians such as Psy and Big Bang .

Discography

Singles

  • 2012: City Lights
  • 2012: Ride Or Die
  • 2012: Find a Boy (feat.Mic Righteous)
  • 2013: One Thousand (with Cheryl Cole )
  • 2013: Need U (100%) (with Duke Dumont )
  • 2013: Play the Game Boy
  • 2013: Heartless
  • 2013: What's Going On? (with Monsieur Adi)
  • 2015: Paradigm (with CamelPhat )
  • 2016: My Love 4 U (with MK)
  • 2017: Closer To Love (with Tough Love)
  • 2018: Entirety (with Shift K3Y)

Individual evidence

  1. Chart sources: DE UK
  2. Music Sales Awards: UK
  3. a b Sound of 2013 Profiles: A * M * E . BBC . December 9, 2012. Retrieved December 10, 2012.
  4. BMI repertoire: songwriter / composer: Aminata Kabba . Broadcast Music Incorporated . Archived from the original on January 18, 2013. Retrieved on December 10, 2012.
  5. Duke Dumont and A * M * E to knock Ant and Dec off Number 1? , Official Charts Company
  6. Sierra Leone's A * M * E Reps K-Pop to the Fullest: How Psy, Big Bang and N * SYNC helped spawn the Sierra Leone's first K-pop princess , MTV