Iconic female rapper Eno Barony has opened up about her music journey right from her childhood days.
Eno Barony is known for her hit songs, ‘God Is a Woman’ ‘Wats Ma Name’ and ‘Tonga’, the remix of the track “Tonga” by Joey B ft Sarkodie in 2014.
Growing up in a Christian home and being a daughter of a Reverend Minister, the expectation for the talented rapper was to find herself in church choir and religious ministration.
But Eno Barony decided to follow her dream and passion and joined a rap competition at the age of 15 years.
She recounted in an interview with Accra-based Citi TV that her portion of the competition was used for an advert on television of which her parents came across on TV one day.
While narrating her ordeal, Eno Barony said her father’s reaction to seeing her daughter rap for the first time did not sit well with him.
She recalled being beaten by her father for going on a live TV with short skirts to rap as a daughter of a Reverend Minister.
““I popped up on TV one Saturday …My Dad was sleeping in the living room and I think I went for a competition so my side of the competition was used for the advert…My dad was asleep and my whole family we were watching…everybody was watching because I was 15 and my dad just woke up and asked: Whose voice is that? but then it was done and they wrote showing this and every Saturday at 5 pm,” she said.
She continued; “It was a Saturday Morning … so at 5 pm he sat and watched me perform… after that, I was lashed because I was a reverend Minister’s daughter and I went to do rap music wearing a short skirt”.
Eno Barony in 2021 became the first female artiste in Ghana to win the Rapper of the Year award at the 3Music Awards.
She has also won the Best Rap Performance Of The Year at the 2020 Vodafone Ghana Music Awards [VGMA] now Telecel Ghana Music Awards [TGMA].
