Kwabena Sarkodee Adjepong better known by his stage name Kwabs (born 24 April 1990) is a British singer-songwriter.
Born and raised in Bermondsey, Kwabena Adjepong’s musical education was a wide-ranging one. He studied blues at school and listened to everything from classic soul – Aretha Franklin, Donnie Hathaway – to alternative rock (The Strokes) and innovative electro-pop (Hot Chip). But it was the rhythms and improvisational scope of jazz that Kwabs gravitated towards.
Remarkably for a kid from a South London comprehensive whose childhood had been spent in and out of state care, he won a place at the Royal Academy of Music, one of the most prestigious hothouses of young musical talent in the world.