About Abrewa Nana

Abrewa Nana (born Dorcas Opoku Dakwa on 3 December, 1982) is a Ghanaian singer, songwriter, dancer, and former Idol series judge. Nana\s parents are Isaac Dakwa and Juliana Blankson. The name \Abrewa\ means \Grandmother\ in her language; Nana later adopted this as a stagename, partly because she had been named after her grandmother. Raised single-handedly by her mother, Nana attended primary and secondary school in Accra, before studying Business Accounting at the Takoradi polytechnic.[1]As a teenager, she idolized Mariah Carey and Aaliyah, but was introduced to hiplife - a combination of hip hop and African Highlife - as a student in polytechnic, and began to compose her own lyrics. [2] Following the recording of her demo, Nana became a favourite among radio DJ\s, and her collaboration with Sass Squad Tuma received huge airplay .[3] However, it was her debut album Sagoa in 2000 that