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TEKNO: BIOGRAPHY, RECORD LABEL, NET WORTH, AWARD AND SONGS.

Searching for Tekno Biography,Songs,Age, album and Net worth? as Usual, we have detailed fact about the Nigerian Singer.

Augustine Miles Kelechi popularly known as (Tekno Miles) is a Nigerian singer, songwriter, producer, performer, and dancer an internationally performing artist descent of Ebonyi state, born on 7th December 1992 at Bauchi state, Nigeria. He received his secondary education at Heritage school, Kaduna state, Nigeria.

He grew up in several parts of the country including Nassarawa, Kaduna, and Abuja because his father was a member of the Nigeria army. At the age of 8, the superstar was enrolled in a music school where he learned the rudiment of playing the piano and guitar. He belonged to the first set of dancers in his school called Enclomadies.

He made his debut into Nigerian music industry when he drops hisan music industry when he drops his first single Titled "Holiday "was released under the record label K-money entertainment with featured vocals from Davido "Holiday" which was positively accepted.

While in Abuja in 2012, the superstar was spotted by renowned Nigerian comedian Julius Agwu at an event after Tekno miles received a standing ovation following the performance of a song titled "Onye ne kwu", his remix of ice prince's "oleku", he met Iyanya Franklyn, the manager of Made men music group (MMMG) at the same event,

Ubi and Iyanya who later became his friends encouraged him to move to Lagos to further his music career

BIOGRAPHY TABLE





































     NAMEAugustine Miles Kelechi
STAGE NAME          Tekno
GENRE OF MUSIC        Afro Pop
PLACE OF BIRTH         Bauchi
DATE OF BIRTH17th December 1992
     ALBUM        None
RECORD LABELMade Man Music Group
     AWARDSBest New Act of The Year    (Nigeria Entertainment Awards 2014),

Best Pop Extra Video "Duro"  (9th Nigeria strong>

Best Music Video of the year "Duro" and  Afro-pop Artist of the Year    (Nigeria Entertainment Awards 2016),

Best New Act and African Video of the Year,(MTV Africa Music Awards),

Best African Male Video and Best Afro-pop Video "Pana"(WATS Up TV 2016)

 

 

On October 5th, 2013. he signed a record deal with Made man Music group under where he stormed the ground with single titled "Dance" and "Anything" which won him a nomination for the "best new act of the year" category at the 2014 Nigeria Entertainment Awards.


ENDORSEMENT


This 2017 Tekno signed a $4 million endorsement deal with SONY ENTERTAINMENT. He also signed a multi-million Naira deal with music came into a limelight when he released a hit single titled "Duro" which gained a massive airplay. A remix which featured the likes of Phyno and flavour n'abania was released on November 16th,2015. Duro was produced by Dj coublon, the hit track topped several charts in Nigeria and on the international scene, it peaked at #5 on capital xtra's Afro beats chart; top ten for September 2015.on November 20th, 2015. he released a single Titled "wash" the song was produced by Dj coublon with the video, in 2016 he went ahead to release singles Titled "Rara", "Pana" and "Where" which also increased his popularity in Nigeria and World at Large.

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NET WORTH


usually we calculate net-worth based on properties, endorsement deals, album sales and others.

The superstar exert net-worth is yet to ascertain but industry report estimated Tekno net-worth at $ 2.5 Million

 

LIST OF TEKNO SONGS



  • 2013 Holiday, Onyenekwu (Ft Ice Prince).

  • 2014 Dance, Shoki (Ft B-Red), Go low, Zima, Jonzing, Anything

  • 2015 Duro, Maria, wash.

  • 2016 Rara, Pana, Where.

  • 2017 Yawa, Be.

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