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K haligraph Is a Rapper Musician From "different, unique and admirable".

Kenya born on 12 June 1990, Nairobi,
Nairobi County, Kenya
BIOGRAPHY
Khaligraph Jones (born Brian Ouko Robert, 12

June 1990) is a Kenyan hip hop artiste. Jones
started in the Kenyan entertainment scene
way in 2009 after he won the Kenyan Edition of

the Channel O Emcee Africa competitions at
the age of 19.
EARLY LIFE
Jones was born Brian Ouko Robert on the 12th
of June 1990 in one of Kenya's Eastland area,

which is considered to be one of the
dangerous places to live in Kenya. Living in
Kayole (which is also known as Kayole 1960)

enabled him to know the vices that are usually
bombarded and instigated to them while
living in the ghetto. Jones"Know Khaligraph
Jones In Details". is arguably considered to be
the face of Kenyan Hip Hop and has been

through all the obstacles that one can go
through when you are surviving in the ghetto.
It is through all this that he chose music over

everything else that ghetto has to offer.
MUSIC CAREER
In 2009, Jones who is also known to many as
Baba Yao won the Channel O Emcee Africa
competition at the age of 19. Since then he has

worked with the Kenyan music A-listers
including Xtatic, Stella Mwangi, Rabbit,
Kristoff, Abbas Kubaff, Chiwawa, Christine

Apondi, The Mith of Klear Kut, Kaytrixx, Dj
Creme Dela Creme, and Ulopa Ngoma.
His freestyling style has been described as
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