Performance · Production
Akua Naru
New Haven, United States • b. 1978-08-20
Akua Naru is credited on 21 releases across 20 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 2009–2024 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.
21
Pressings credited
20
Albums
3
Decades active
6
In collections
Biography
Akua Naru (also known as Akua Olatunji), is a rapper from Connecticut, United States. Her hip-hop music incorporates styles including soul and jazz. In 2018 she began archiving the achievements of women in hip-hop at Harvard University as a Nasir Jones Hip-hop Fellow at the Hip-hop Archive Research Institute. Naru has been particularly successful in Europe, where she lived from 2008 until joining the music faculty at University of California, Santa Cruz in 2024. Presently, she holds a Pavel Machotka Chair in Creative Studies at Porter College.
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Credited work
21 releases · 20 albums · active 2009–2024
- Performance · 19
- Production · 2
Studios: Evergreen Studio, Duisburg · Nilento Studio
Discography
Records they worked on — most-collected first.
Frequent collaborators
- Ancient Astronauts
- Wax Tailor
- Guts
- Yilian Cañizares
- Ben L'Oncle Soul
- Blitz The Ambassador
- Koalas Desperados
- The Sey Sisters
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