Yaw Tog real name, Thorsten Owusu Gyimah has been named ‘BET Amplified International’ artist of the month for April.
The fast-rising musical sensation from Kumasi in the Ashanti Region of Ghana burst into the musical scenes in 2020 with a hit single track ‘Sore’, which features colleagues O‘Kenneth, City Boy, Reggie, and Jay Bahd. Soon after its release, ‘Sore’ peaked at Number 1 on the Apple Music Ghana Top 100 chart.
Yaw is a student of Opoku Ware Senior High School. Already, the ‘Sore’ song has garnered over 1.3 Million views on YouTube with an expected remix featuring the Ghanaian UK-born Hip-Hop icon Stormzy and BET nominee Kwesi Arthur.
Yaw Tog won his first mainstream music industry award at the 3music awards emerging as the best Hip Hop song of the year with hit single ‘Sore’.