Tinny Biography

Addo Quaynor (Born on 19 January 1982) better known for his stage name Tinny. Tinny is a Ghanaian Rapper, singer, and entertainer. He has been known as a successful Entertainer. Tinny has recorded several albums and made an impact in Nigeria and Ghana.

Early Life And Education

Addo Quaynor also known as Tinny was born on January 19, 1982. Who hails from Osu Ghana. Tinny had his primary school at the Osu Home School, and furthermore to Osu Salem for JSS and then later proceed to Hepter International School Akim Oda then later moved to Okuapeman secondary school.

His parents’ names are Mr. Ricky Tetteh Quaynor and Naa Badu Quaynor. He is the last child of his parent.

Career

Tinny started his career life at the early age of eight, by rapping and singing at Funfair parties. He got into the music industry in the year 1994. He started performing at the Fun world. An entertainer program was organized every Sunday of the week at the Nation Theatre in Accra. His first album wasn’t successful because the engineering works were not so good. Wasn’t satisfied with his first performance. He later went on to release “Makola Kwakwe” which become his number one best album of the year.

Tinny has released 5 five Album, since his debut and has performed with artists like Ekow Shailo, Bandana, Etuo Buba, and many others. He won the youth Excellence award for the youth Musician award of the year 2003 and also got the name Tinny from his mother. He now runs his record label and shows his videos. Though most of his videos now maintain close ties with Om Studios. Tinny loves to play video games, especially soccer and he loves to write a song .

Personal Life

It was reported on social media that Tinny is about to get engaged soon some years back but it’s officially true. The couples are expected to fly out of the country immediately after they have a blissful marriage. And it was confirmed that the two parents are giving them their blessing to the union.

Style

Tinny knack for making Ga ( a local dialect he usually sings and rap) in proverbs sound more appealing and the distinct style with which he flows (mostly rhyming) won the respect of native Ga-speaking people. Tinny, Nakutso Bi “is a popular line in most of his songs, and he received massive support from his parents Mr. and Mrs. Quaynor.

Campaigns

Cadbury launched a campaign with the help of  Ghanaian traditional culture to raise additional funds for cocoa growing communities. The campaign was used to promote Tiny track titled Zingolo, the move follows certification of Cadbury Dairy Milk across UK and Ireland and the work of Cadbury Cocoa Partnership which is 10 years initiative launched in 2008.

Zingolo campaign was expand at Fallon, London. The song Zingolo was released on new record label Glass and a Half Full records, which was created by Cadbury Dairy Milk. The song and the record label were used to celebrate “all things Ghana, it’s people, cultural, dancers etc

One minute of the edit song was used for advertisement on television and cinema, it’s short video showing Ghana and cocoa head.

Contribution Conference

He organized and performed two songs at his grand news New year party for 300 HIV/AIDS orphaned Children at Manya-Krobo in the eastern region of Ghana to mark the beginning of his Mytinny on the 2 January 2007. On January 12 Tinny is a former Student of Okuapeman and he visited the school to celebrate his birthday with the blind students to put smiles on their faces and make them happy. Tinny has been a source of encouragement to them. He encouraged them to Karen extra for them to become influential like him. According to Tinny, he was concerned about the well-being of those children.

BET Cypher

2010 Ghana Cypher Hip-Hop award was created exclusively for BET International the beat was produced by Green Gafacci from Black Avenue Muzik and produce and Directed by Lilian N. Blank son for princess productions. And he features D-Black, BabyG, Ayigbe Edem, and Riggie Rockstone

Ambassador

Tinny was listed as one of Glo Ghana’s Ambassadors in 2009

Discography

• Makola Kwakwe 2003
• Aletse.         2005
• Dzomon       2007
• Makola kwakwe 2007
• Angeline.      2007
• Obi Do Ba      2008
• Attention.       2008
• Zingolo.       2009
• Balang Bajodoh
• Tingele
• Maamoe
• Ringtone Rmx.   2013
• We still they.     2016
• Kojo Besia.      2019
• Alem Minggu.    2020
• Heartbeat.        2020
• Balang Bajodoh   2020

Awards

Year	Organisation	Award	Work	Result
2004	Youth Excellence Awards	Young Musician of the Year	Himself	Won
2004	Ghana Music Awards	New Artiste of the Year	Himself	Won
2004	Ghana Music Awards (UK Version)	New Artiste of the Year	Himself	Won
2004	Channel O Music Video Awards	Best African West Award	Dzormo	Nominated
2008	Ghana Music Awards	Hiplife Song of the Year	Kaa Bu Ame	Nominated
2008	Ghana Music Awards	Hiplife Artiste of the Year	Himself	Nominated
2008	Ghana Music Awards	Hiplife Album of the Year	Kaa Bu Ame	Nominated
2009	Hip Hop World Awards	African Artiste of the Year	Himself	Won
2009	4syte Music Video Awards	Best Male Video	Ringtone	Nominated
2009	Ghana Music Awards	Best Collaboration of the Year (Shared with Czar and Richie)	Mercy Lokko	Nominated
2009	Ghana Music Awards	Best Collaboration of the Year (Shared with Slim Busterr)	Nhyira	Nominated
2010	Ghana Music Awards	Hip Hop /Hiplife song of the Year	Ringtone	Nominated
2010	Ghana Music Awards	Hip Hop /Hiplife Artiste of the Year	Himself	Nominated
2010	Ghana Music Awards	Best Rapper of the Year	Himself	Nominated
2010	MOBO Awards	Best African Act	Himself	Nominated
2011	4syte Music Video Awards	Best Collaboration (Shared with Jay Ghartey)	Go Hard All Day	Nominated
2011	Ghana Hiphop & R&B Awards	Hiphop Album (Of The Decade)	Makola Kwakwe	Nominated
2012	4syte Music Video Awards	Best Male Video	Anaconda	Nominated
2012	Queen of The Ga-Adangbe Beauty Pageant and Awards	Ga-Adangbe Icon of the Decade	Himself	Won
2012	Yfm Loud in GH Awards	Best Male Artiste	Himself	Nominated

Net Worth

Tinny is among the most richest and influential musicians in Ghana and his networth was estimated as $2.3 million

Social Media Handle

• Instagram @bardmantinny
• Twitter @bardmantinny