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Ghanaian-Australian Breakthrough Artist Genesis Owusu Wins ARIA Award ‘Album of the Year’ and more
Genesis Owusu released his long-awaited debut album, Smiling With No Teeth, earlier this year to universal acclaim and today, he walked away from the prestigious ARIA Awards in Australia with the top prize and more, winning Album of the Year, Best Hip-Hop Release, Best Independent Release and Best Cover Art. Watch the Ghanaian-Australian artist’s riveting live performance from the ARIA’s.
The album was also named Triple J’s Australian Album of the Year and his video for “The Other Black Dog” was named Video of the Year.
Up next for Owusu: his first ever headline U.S. tour! See tour dates here:
GENESIS OWUSU U.S.TOUR DATES
Jan 13 Los Angeles, CA – The Roxy
Jan 15 San Francisco, CA – The Independent
Jan 17 Seattle, WA – Neumos
Jan 19 Denver, CO – The Bluebird
Jan 25 New York, NY – Bowery Ballroom
Jan 28 Atlanta, GA – Terminal West
Jan 29 Nashville, TN – Basement East
Jan 30 Austin, TX – Antone’s
Ticket Link: https://www.genesisowusu.com/tour
Smiling With No Teeth landed this March to critical acclaim including praise from NPR Music, i-D, The Guardian, Paste Magazine, Hypebeast and many more. On the album, Owusu presents a soul-bearing narrative and full-length release that is impossible to ignore. It intuitively picks apart and reassembles themes of mental health, resilience and race, to become a culmination of ideas and defining chapter in Owusu’s acclaimed discography, that begs for listening over and over.
The 15-track LP seamlessly defies genre boundaries while delineating the nuanced complexities of mental health, as well as Owusu’s experience of living as a black man in a white society. Owusu illustrates each disclosure from within his mind under a tessellation of soundscapes, moving through future-funk, rap and OG hip-hop to guitar-laden odysseys veering from punk and indie-rock to tinges of wistful folk. Smiling With No Teeth, at its heart, remains dedicated to Owusu’s core audience, those who live outside of the box, out of choice or in a decided lack of belonging.
Listen to Smiling with No Teeth here: https://genesisowusu.lnk.to/SWNT .