Million Stylez - Topic

Kenshin Iryo more known as Million Stylez was born June first 1981 in Stockholm, Sweden. He grew up in a working class part of town called Sollentuna. Raised by a French mother and a Japanese father and grew up with friends mainly with foreign backgrounds due to the very immigrant-dense area. Kenshin started experimenting with Hip Hop at the young age of nine, recording rap tunes in Swedish on his cassette deck player. After a couple of years he started to write lyrics in english but it was not until he turned 18 that he moved on to dancehall and reggae that became his true musical calling. It was only a natural step for him due to the fact that reggae always been there as he was growing up. Million was self-taught and never had any musical schooling but he still doesn’t see any boundaries for him musically since there is always room for improvement he says.

2006 march first, saw the release of his breakthrough smash hit Miss Fatty that took the whole world by storm. It was distributed by german Soundquake and was their number one selling song for several weeks. It was also received very well by radio stations like Hot97, Shade 45, BBC1Xtra, Kiss FM, NRJ, Voice, P3 etc. It has also been the number one track/video on Trace TV/Radio that covers over 50 countries around the world. It was the biggest dancehall song worldwide for 2006 and you can actually say that it’s a timeless classic today. The video was shot in Cuba and has over 47 million views on youtube so far.