Ms Dynamite (born Niomi Arleen MacLean-Daley, 26 April 1981) is a double Brit Award and three time MOBO Awards winning R&B, UK garage, and hip hop singer and rapper.
Ms Dynamite (born Niomi Arleen MacLean-Daley on 26 April 1981) is a double Brit Award and three time MOBO Awards winner, she is a R&B and hip hop singer-rapper.
Ms Dynamite was born and raised in Archway, a district in North London, to a Scottish mother and a Jamaican father. Her heritage also included Irish, Barbadian, German, and Grenadian. She grew up listening to reggae and hip hop music. Though she wanted to become a schoolteacher or social worker, her biggest aspiration was to be a musician. She is the eldest of eleven siblings, one of which is a grime artist known as Akala, and attended Acland Burghley School in Tufnell Park.
In 2002, Dynamite won the prestigious Mercury Music Prize, a music award given to groundbreaking British and Irish acts, for her debut album A Little Deeper. She donated the £20,000 prize to the NSPCC.
After taking a break from the music scene for a couple of years, Dynamite recently guest hosted BBC's radio 1xtra and stated she would be releasing a third album late 2008/early 2009. The first single from the new album will be "Bad Gyal". Read More Here...
