Meet Akoto: The journey behind the art

Akoto is a genre-fluid Ghanaian musician who got her start in 2019 on the hit single ‘Sweet

Part’. She geared further towards the limelight by covering popular songs like ‘Like I do’ by

Fireboy DML, Jericho by Simi featuring Patoranking, ‘Poison’ by the late Ebony Reigns and

many others. After being rejected from hit talent shows ‘MTN Hitmaker’ and ‘TV3 Mentor’

she spent her earlier years honing her song writing and performance skills.

This season of learning soon turned into a season of exploration and what she calls ‘her

rebellious phase’. Akoto who by then was being groomed to become a ‘mainstream success’

decided to branch out on her own after several creative clashes and personal issues with her

then team. In July 2022 against all odds she dropped her first single ‘Fire Service’ an

afrobeat love song that showcased her versatility and voice. She then went on to work with

veteran producers Peeweezel and Waske Da Producer to release ‘You & Me’ featuring

Medal and ‘Fine Wine’ in December of that same year. In recent years she has dropped

songs like ‘Higher’, ‘Risque’, ‘222’, and fan favourite ‘Big D.

Akoto is back this November with an Afro-beats single dubbed ‘Reckless’, a daring anthem

where the singer touches on feeling jaded about love and matters of the heart. This song is

produced by her long term collaborator and producer Kobe Norths who has worked on songs like ‘Ocean Deep’ and ‘Control’ with the singer. When speaking to Akoto about her new single this is what she had to say ‘Reckless is about more than romantic love to me, it’s

about feeling jaded with life and its struggles, it’s about questioning your worth in friendships, business environments, situationships, family dynamics. The song was a venting session for me, two minutes of just spilling emotions I had kept bottled up for months! When I told my producer I wanted to make something new, I knew I wanted to transmute all this pain and feeling of unworthiness into a powerful statement, a powerful anthem’. Reckless makes its debut November 13 2026, available on all music streaming platforms.

It’s been years since her debut but singer, songwriter and performer Akoto keeps

persevering. Serving us good music, great vocals, phenomenal performances and a unique

piece of work every time she steps back into the limelight that has us begging for more.