Topline/hook writer, songwriter, lyricist, composer, rapper, vocalist, spoken word artist - ex Sony

<< Tracks and showreels in different genres including collabs with artists, producers and labels (Island, XL, Dirty Vegas, Tough Love, Stereo MCs, Outkast, D Double E, Chingy etc) music for TV and Film (HBO, Sky, Apple, BBC etc) and library (WestOne, JGM, EMI). 
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BIO
After presenting on pirate radio and writing / performing alongside DJs in clubs (US and UK) Sara collaborated with Seb Fontaine, Kano and DJ Cameo (BBC 1Xtra) to name a few. She performed, sung, rap battled and even judged at 'The Jump Off' in London and NYC alongside the likes of Pro Green and Rag'N'Bone Man. 
A co-write on EMI's 'Garage Anthems' led to Sara self-securing a major publishing deal in 2009. Sara's passion for different musical genres together with a versatile approach to song / topline writing, lyrics, vocals and rap have led to collaborations with:
RAG'N'BONE MAN
BASEMENT JAXX
877 RECORDS (My Nu Leng)
TOUGH LOVE & NEWBIE NERDZ (Island) 
SEB FONTAINE
THE STEREO MCs
DIRTY VEGAS
BIG BOI (Outkast)
RUDIMENTAL
CHARLIE TENKU (Notting Hill Music)
RONNIE WOOD (Rolling Stones)
NEOL DAVIES (Ska band 'The Selecter')
LA ROUX
D DOUBLE E
SHARKY P
KUBB
As well as a recent project for global fashion company PARFOIS and H&M (vocals for their online advertising campaigns).

Tracks have appeared on:
BLACK-ISH, AMERICAN HORROR STORY, SEX EDUCATION (Netflix), BBC 1XTRA (various), KISS FM (various) etc. 

Live performance & festival highlights (solo material plus 'guesting' with other artists and DJ)include: BESTIVAL, LOVEBOX, BRIGHTON PRIDE, V2,  NOTTING HILL CARNIVAL & Indigo at The 02, London.

Writer, musician, dubious pundit. 
Artistic Director at Debt Records, member of Un-Convention, radio presenter for Fab Radio International, Musicians' Union Live Performance Committee member, moderator for Tom Robinson's Fresh On The Net, lead singer for The Bedlam Six.

FOMO | Out Now
http://fanlink.to/FOMOsingle

I am a singer/songwriter from Manchester (UK). I play a collection of my own work, the styles I choose to mix are folk-soul-indie-pop. The world is the best influence and lyrical content can come from anywhere. Technology, weather and love can all be songs. 

Management: gunther@solarmanagement.co.uk

We're not the best, but we're pretty good.

MGMT
info@qprime.com

BOOKINGS
Live: dave.galea@unitedtalent.com
DJ: darren@fmly.agency

"This is the way we all relate to one another easily, through the Hip Co.  It’s the way we talk everyday, put into song; it has great potential.  I want to make sure this Hip Co thing takes the world."  -Takun J


Jonathan Koffa is better known to his fans as Takun J, the Hip Co King.

Takun J was born on May 14 in Monrovia, Liberia, where he survived the country’s 14 year civil war with his single mother and 3 siblings. Even during those hard times, it was clear that Takun had an entertainer’s spirit. He grew up playing soccer, dancing, and entering talent shows. He performed whenever he had a chance. By the time he graduated from high school, he had fully committed himself to music. In 2005, he released his first single, “We’ll Spay You” followed the next year by “You Meaning Me”.

The success of those songs was cut short as the war flared up and a resettlement program took Takun to refugee camps in Ghana, and later, Ivory Coast, where he washed clothes and cleaned houses for people in exchange for food.

When the opportunity arose, he returned to Liberia to rebuild his country. He sees music, and especially Hip Co- the unique Liberian language of the streets and markets- as integral to this. In 2007, he released The Time, his first full length album. The song “Police Man”, which spoke honestly about police corruption, was an instant hit with fans but resulted in two arrests and a brutal beating by Liberian National Police. Takun refused to be silenced: the night of his release, he performed with his eye still black and his shirt still blood-stained.

Since then, Takun has committed himself to writing songs that speak truth, promote unity, and resonate with people’s everyday experiences. He has worked with international organizations, including Action on Armed Violence and UNICEF and is serving as a gender based violence reduction ambassador for Media Impact.  Both his work and his music have been recognized internationally, with features on BBC, Al Jazeera, OkayAfrica, AFP, and more. 

In December 2012, he launched his new album, My Way, and held the world's first hip co festival, opening to crowds of 17,000 people over 2 days.

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