Abrokwa (Nana)   (Germany)

AKA : Darkman
EuroDance member
Added : 10/10/2004
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Latest Nana Abrokwa news

30/11/2023 : Nana Darkman's next album will be entitled Aaliyah and it is planned for March 2024

01/02/2023 : Nana Darkman's new single Don't Know How will be out on February 3rd

19/03/2022 : New Nana Darkman single will be entitled S.O.S. (Save Our Souls)

16/02/2021 : Nana published a snippet from upcoming video for song Money Stops Nonsense featuring Admiral C4C

28/10/2017 : A new track from Nana's forthcoming album #BetweenLuciferAndGod is now available : Let's Go featuring Frankie Balou.

02/10/2017 : Nana's next single and video will be entitled Go Away and it will feature Manuellsen and Vessy. It is planned for October 6th.

04/08/2017 : Discover the videoclip for 2k17 version of Nana's single Remember The Time. It was directed by Art Davis.

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Nana Abrokwa albums

Father

18th May 1998

BUY X

Featurings and collaborations

	Darkness - In My Dreams	1994	BUY X
	UBF - Bible In My Hand	1997	BUY X
	Movetown - Lonely	24th Feb 2012	BUY X
	DesiSlava - Cotton Candy	23rd Nov 2014	BUY X

Songwriting

Veona - Party Nation

27th Nov 1996

BUY X

Aliases - Records released under other names

	Nana - Darkman	Nov 1996	BUY X
	Nana - Lonely	7th Mar 1997	BUY X
	Nana - Nana - The Album (album)	19th May 1997	BUY X
	Nana - Let It Rain	Aug 1997	BUY X
	Nana - He's Comin'	1st Sep 1997	BUY X
	Nana - Too Much Heaven	1st Dec 1997	BUY X
	Nana - Remember The Time	Apr 1998	BUY X
	Nana - Dreams	17th Aug 1998	BUY X
	Nana - Father	16th Nov 1998	BUY X
	Nana - I Wanna Fly (Like An Eagle)	15th Nov 1999	BUY X
	Nana - Be All You Can Be	2000	BUY X
	Nana - Du Wirst Sehen	14th Apr 2001	BUY X
	Nana - Butterfly/Ride With Me	12th Jul 2004	BUY X
	Darkman - All Doors In Flight No.7 (album)	19th Jul 2004	BUY X
	Nana Darkman - 12Y.O. (album)	5th Sep 2008	BUY X
	Nana - Stand Up! (album)	Dec 2009	BUY X
	Nana - Remember The Time 2k17	4th Aug 2017	BUY X
	Nana - Go Away	6th Oct 2017	BUY X
	Nana - Let's Go	27th Oct 2017	BUY X
	Nana Darkman - #BetweenLuciferAndGod (album)	17th Nov 2017	BUY X
	Nana Darkman - Ride With Me	5th Aug 2020	BUY X
	Nana Darkman - Lockdown	14th Aug 2020	BUY X
	Nana Darkman - Pass Away	18th Dec 2020	BUY X
	Nana Darkman - Money Stops Nonsense	19th Feb 2021	BUY X
	Nana209 - Qualität	13th May 2021	BUY X
	Nana Darkman - One Night Stand	23rd Jun 2021	BUY X
	Nana Darkman - S.O.S. (Save Our Souls)	18th Mar 2022	BUY X
	Nana Darkman - Don't Know How	3rd Feb 2023	BUY X
	Nana Darkman - Only You	10th Nov 2023	BUY X
	Nana Darkman - Magnificent	22nd Dec 2023	BUY X
	Nana Darkman - Boss Bitch	5th Jan 2024	BUY X
	Nana Darkman - Dubai	26th Jan 2024	BUY X
	Nana Darkman - Fake Life	16th Feb 2024	BUY X
	Nana Darkman - Young Black Man	8th Mar 2024	BUY X
	Nana Darkman - Aaliyah (album)	29th Mar 2024	BUY X

Nana Abrokwa biography

Nana Kwame Abrokwa was born on October 5th, 1969 in Accra (Ghana). At the age of 10, he came to Germany with his mother, brothers and sisters. Music was his hobby since his tender years, and when he finished school, he started a DJ carreer. He played at a lot of places and got kind of famous. He also appeared in two German movies. Then he met Toni Cottura. And they both understood that, one day, they would work together. At this time, Toni was successful with Fun Factory and producing great hits for famous acts like Marky Mark, the Backstreet Boys or N'Sync. In 1997, Toni Cottura left the Fun Factory with his partner Bülent Aris, and it was finally time for them to work together with Nana.

Nana started rapping under the name of MC Africa True (or shortly : True). He contributed to the eurodance group Darkness, with the single In My Dreams in 1995. The music was programmed and arranged by Bülent. He also co-produced some songs for DJ David Fascher (such as Make The Crowd Go Wild). Legend says that he did not like eurodance style, so he left Darkness afterwards.

Nana's first solo single Darkman was released in late 1996. The song was a big success in Europe, especially in Germany, Austria, Switzerland & the Benelux. Europe discovered a new musical style : European rap & hip hop. The real breakthrough for Nana came with the next single, Lonely. Featuring vocals by Alexandra Prince, it was a super-hit of 1997 Europe-wide, staying # 1 in Germany over 1 month. It entered the top 5 on most European charts. Then followed the singles Let It Rain (written for his Mum who passed away from cancer 10 years before), He's Comin' and Too Much Heaven from his debut album Nana - The Album. They all entered the top10 in Germany. The album featured many artists like Jan VD Toorn, Jonestown, Pappa Bear (Daisy Dee's brother), the vocalist Mazaya, Alex Prince as previously mentioned, as well as a lot of other Booya Family members.

In May 1998, his second album was out, entitled Father. Nana adopted a new style : R&B/Rap, with slower songs and more mature lyrics. He released the songs Remember The Time, Dreams (reminding a lot of the previous hit Lonely) and Father from that album, and they all scored big in the charts.

Nana first single from the 3rd album, I Wanna Fly (Like An Eagle) was released in November 1999 and it was a ballad about freedom. Then there was a big break and the planned third album was canceled, while Viva TV had already played samples from some tracks of that album during a one-hour Nana-special broadcast. Nana had worked hard and this was planned to be a big release, and a defenite hit in the charts again. Songs remained locked in the booya-bass. I Wanna Fly was a flop and after that, the Booya Family split up. Bülo couldn't release this album due to copyright problems, since all the producers and collaborators who had worked on the album had left. Nana recorded another album in the Booya studios. But since the Booya era was really over and the music world had changed a lot, this was not released the album as well. Nana finally left Booya.

In 2001, Nana did a comeback, this time rapping in German on the single Du Wirst Sehen (You will see). It was a great hit on the German club scene, but far away from the old Darkman-days. He started working on the new album which was going to be named Global Playa and would be in both English and German. But it was also cancelled.

2004 : rumors according to which Nana was working hard to get back on the scene were true. Nana released his new single Butterfly/Ride With Me, which was his first single from the new album (entitled All Doors In Flight No.7) that was released in July 2004.

2009 : Nana's new album was entitled Stand Up. It contained 18 tracks.

2014 : Nana cotributed to a collective single with DesiSlava and Pappa Bear, Cotton Candy.

2017 : Nana released a 2k17 version of his song Remember The Time on August 4th, along with a new video. Then came Go Away featuring Manuellsen & Vessy. Both songs were included on his album #BetweenLuciferAndGod, out on November. Album included collaborations with eurodance big names Thea Austin and Ice MC.

2020 : after almost 3 years of Nana Darkman was back with Ride With Me, a song featuring Manuellsen & Choyce. Then he released 2 collaborations with Samuel G : Lockdown and Pass Away.

2021 : Nana and Admiral C4C released a single entitled Money Stops Nonsense. Then Nana dropped a German rap song under the alias Nana209 : Qualität

Nana biography at T-music
Nana official website

Nana Abrokwa biography was last updated Mon, May 17th 2021

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