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Tekno – Career, Net worth, Awards and Nominations

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Early Life and Beginnings

Augustine Miles Kelechi Edgar a.k.a Golden Boy of Africa, Slim Daddy, Alhaji Tekno but popularly called “Tekno” is a young musician in the Nigeria music industry, who is making waves in the industry and getting the hearts of many individuals with his lovely grooving songs. The young star was born in the month of December, on the 17th 1992. Tekno miles or simply Tekno is a Nigerian who was born in Bauchi state into a family of five boys and one girl, but hails from Ebonyi State. He grew up in several parts of the country( Nassarawa, Kaduna, and Abuja,) due to the fact that his father was a member of the Nigerian Army. He is a Christian, and is fluent in four languages ( Igbo, Yoruba, Hausa, and English). Tekno miles is a singer, songwriter, producer, performer and dancer. His record label is the ” Made Men Music Group”, At the age of 8, he was enrolled in a music school where he learnt and mastered the rudiments of playing the piano and guitar. Tekno has released a lot of smashing hit singles such as Duro, Pana, Diana and many others, and has also won so many awards.

Net Worth

Tekno Miles 2017 net worth was rated: $ 2.5 million. According to information gathered Tekno Miles has expensive rides like Acura, BMW X6, Mercedes Benz CLS 550 that sum up to 75 million Naira.

Marriage/ Relationship

There is no official marriage anniversary that has taken place between Tekno and any lady so far. But information gathered, Tekno seems to be dating a lady whose name is “Omotola”.

Music Career

Tekno whose genre of Music is Afrobeats, RnB, and Hip Hop was first signed under “K Money Entertainment” in Nigeria. Tekno Miles first single titled “Holiday” was released by K Money. Tekno featured vocals from Davido in the song, made the song popular and it gained massive airplay from media houses across the nation. In 2012, Tekno Miles performed a song titled ” Onye Ne Kwu ” a remix of Ice Prince’s song ” Oleku” at an event that he was spotted by Julius Agwu and was opportune to meet Ubi Franklin, the manager of ” Made Men Music Group” and Iyanya who he later became friends with. Tekno Miles was encouraged to move on to Lagos to further his music career, this encouragement came from his new found friends Iyanya and Ubi Franklin.

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Tekno thereafter signed a contract with Made Men Music Group on the 5th of October 2013. It was under Made Men Music that he released his singles like Dance and Anything which won him a nomination at Nigeria Entertainment Awards in 2014 in the Best New Act of the year category. Tekno Miles song “Duro” which he released on 18th of June 2015 went viral and was accepted by his fans. He released a remix of the song featuring Flavour on the 16th of November 2015, the remix was produced by DJ Coublon. The remix released by Tekno Miles topped several charts in Nigeria and internationally. The remix was no. 5 on Capital Xtra’s and among the Top 10 on Afrobeat’s chart. The hit song “Duro” became popular in club houses across the country and it was sung like national anthem by many people. On 20th of November 2015, Tekno Miles released a single titled “Wash”, the song was produced by DJ Coublon and the video was directed by Aje Films. Tekno hit gold and soared higher in 2016 when he got the attention of Sony Music/RCA and was signed as an international act.

Tekno Miles produced a song that made him a household name in 2016 titled “PANA”. The song Pana was a blast, it was a love song with powerful video and the videowas an instant hit. Pana’s video got him nominations for Best African Video, African Video of the year,Best Afro Pop Video,and Best West African Video at “Wasup TV Africa Music Video Awards”. From 2016, the fan base of Tekno Miles grew and his songs automatically became hit songs. Among his popular songs are Pana, Rara, and Duro then other hit songs. Due to Tekno’s dancing techniques and vocal abilities, many began to refer to him as ” Nigerian Chris Brown’. However, one very interesting thing about Tekno Miles is that despite his fame, he does not drink nor smoke like his counterparts in Nigeria Music Industry. His calmness while delivering his songs and his funny attitude has endeared him to many but far and wide.

Skills

The popular Nigerian hip-hop singer and producer ever since infancy took music as part of his life: Wherefore if rating Tekno Miles skills in music it should have an upper hand as it is something he understands well, have a passion for and has been trained for.

Awards, Nominations and Events

Events

  • Tekno Miles signed an endorsement deal with MTN Nigeria, the deal was said to worth about #18 million naira after soaring high in 2016 with his hit songs.
  • Tekno Miles got the attention of Sony Music and signed an international deal with them, this deal was worth $4 million dollars. This deal made him one of the highest paid Nigeria Music Artist signed to the world-class musical company
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Awards

  • Tekno Miles won the Best Pop Extra Video in 2015.
  • Tekno also won Best New Act at the MTV Africa Music Awards in 2016

Nominations

  • Tekno was nominated for Hottest single at the 9th Nigeria Music Video Award Event in 2016
  • He was also nominated for Best Music Video of The year and Afro-pop Artist of the year at the Nigeria Entertainment Awards Events in 2016.
  • He was also nominated for African Video of the year, Best African Male Video, Best West African Video, and Best Afro Pop Video at the Watsup TV Africa Music Video Awards Event in 2016.
  • Tekno also got nominated for Best International Act at Africa Category in the Bet Awards in 2017.

Tekno Miles’s Single Songs/ Year Produced

So far Tekno Miles has dropped the following singles in his music career from 2013 till date

Holiday – 2013

Dance – 2014

Anything – 2014

Soki – 2014

Go Low – 2014

Jonzing – 2014

Wash – 2015

Duro – 2015

Maria – 2015

Pana – 2016

Where – 2016

Yawa – 2017

Go – 2017

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Mama – 2017

Samantha – 2017

Green Light – 2017

Be – 2017

Tekno Miles Featured Songs

Below is the list of songs Tekno Miles has dropped featuring other artists in Nigeria Music Industry Today.

Onye Ne Kwu – featuring Ice Prin

Ride – featuring Sammy

Killing Me Slow – featuring Dammy Krane

Say Yeah – featuring Iyanya, Emma Nyra, Seleebobo and Baci

Amarachi – featuring Kankz

Shaba – featuring Sosick

Gospel On the Beatz – featuring K-Switch

Boniface Dumex – featuring Selebobo