AJ Nelson

Adjei Nelson Otumfour was born in Dormaa Ahenkro, Brong Ahafo Region of Ghana. He is the 5th of 7 children born to Mrs. Agnes Isha Yeboa Mensah and Mr. Mohammed Amoani Mensah. He attended the Saint Dominic School. He started writing his own songs at age 14 and started performing in High Schools and community shows. AJ Nelson later attended IPMC College of Technology in Accra, where he studied Web & Graphic design.

AJ Nelson first began to gain recognition at the start of 2009 when he featured on a welcome song for the 44th president of the United States of America, Barack Obama's visit to Ghana. The song featured prominently on worldwide Television including the CNN.[6] After releasing underground singles in 2009 and 2010, AJ Nelson got a major record deal with his former record label, GH Brothers. He released his debut mainstream hit single, “Same Girl” featuring Quabena Maphia in September 2010. He subsequently released a second single titled “Dream” in 2011, but that didn't have a lot of commercial success compared to its forerunner. In the last quarter of 2011, he released a third single, titled “Faith” featuring Ghanaian-American music producer, singer, and songwriter based in New York City, Jay Ghartey and that was a major commercial success including its music video's airplay on several Television channels outside Africa like MTV Base.[7] In 2015 AJ Nelson released “Power to the People” under the label, Corna Rock Entertainment.[8] Power to the people led Aj to be ranked 3rd on iTunes list of top-selling Ghanaian Hiphop artists alongside fellow rappers Sarkodie and Obrafuor. In the week of November 23–29, 2015, “Power to the people” was the only Ghanaian song listed in the list of Best New Music of The Week on Wepluggoodmusic.com.[9] AJ Nelson was nominated as 2016 Ghana Carnival ambassadors[10] The power to the people crooner made makes some naughty suggestions on new song, "innuendo" [11] In 2019 AJ Nelson became the first Ghanaian rapper to start his own band, he started touring and performing at performing at local venues in the capital city of Ghana (Accra) He calls the Band Afriq Band, which literally means band of Africa. AJ Nelson has collaborated with artists from other parts of the world including AJ Omo Alaja from Nigeria, Nelson Manora from Congo Brazzaville, Valentine Alvares from Togo/France, and O'hene Savant from the United States. He has also worked with Kesse, Jupiter, Episode, Tinny, Richie Mensah, and Ayat.