Colos (rapper)
Colos | |
|---|---|
| Birth name | Atdhe Gashi |
| Born | 1981 (age 44–45) Prizren, SFR Yugoslavia (now Kosovo) |
| Genres | German hip hop |
| Years active | 2004–present |
| Labels | Mellowvibes Records |
| Website | www.colos36.de |
Atdhe Gashi (born 1981), best known as Colos, is an Albanian rapper living in Germany. He is an artist of Mellow Vibes Records and is residing in Berlin.
Career
Atdhe Gashi (Serbo-Croatian Latin: Atde Gaši) was born in Prizren, Kosovo, at the time in Yugoslavia. Colos immigrated to Berlin-Kreuzberg, Germany as a war refugee in 1994. At the age of 21, he ended his residence in Germany and in early 2002 he was deported to Kosovo, where he stayed 18 months. At the end of 2003 he returned to Germany seeking asylum, which was granted for a year. After this year, he remained illegally in Germany.
His label Soul Street was founded in 2004. A short time later he joined the label VS Recordz together with the producers Woroc. Colos also founded the crew VS Mafia, to which today even the rapper Pain and ST Chagome and producer Kazanova belong.
In 2006, shortly after the release of his first solo album Honey blood, he signed with Berlin Independent Hip Hop Label Mellow Vibes Records, which was founded by Sami Mansour aka. Ben Zulu King and DJ Afrika Bambaataa. On this label he released in May 2007 his 2nd Solo album Life in Exile, and received an entry in the Backspin HipHop Jahrbuch 2007.
End of 2007 Colos turned himself in to the authorities and in November 2007 was deported back to Kosovo.[1]
After more than a nine-month stay in Kosovo he returned to Germany. A few months later he was, on 29 September 2008, alongside the journalist and author Wolfgang Büscher, MTV presenter Patrice, gynecologist and Sami Ben Mansour a guest at the press conference on Germany's Forgotten Children soundtrack, which was released three days later on Mellow Vibes Records. On the soundtrack are just 50 tracks, featuring many famous singers and rappers like Kool Savas, Xavier Naidoo, D-Flame, and many others. The proceeds of the sampler go to the work of the Children and Youth Agency archetypes, to give a perspective to at least some of the estimated two million children in Germany who live below the poverty line.
Discography
Studio albums
- 2006: Honigblut
- 2007: Leben im Exil
- 2009: Independent
References
- ↑ "Colos – laut.de – Band". laut.de (in Deutsch). Retrieved 2023-08-07.
External links
- https://books.google.com/books?id=zox4DwAAQBAJ&dq=%22Colos%22+Kosovo+rap&pg=PA284
- https://rap.de/c37-interview/6045-colos/
- http://initiative-musik.de/kuenstler/kuenstler-a-bis-z/abc/colos.html Archived 2019-07-18 at the Wayback Machine
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