Joseph Gerald Adolphus Cole, better known as Daddy Saj was born in 1978 in Freetown, the capital city of Sierra Leone to Krio parents. At the age of eight, the young Daddy Saj joined his church choir, where he was one of the most talented singers. In his teens he found inspiration from some American based Hip hop artists.

Daddy Saj fled Sierra Leone as a refugee and moved to Conakry, Guinea in 1997 when the government of the then-president Ahmad Tejan Kabbah was ousted by a group of soldiers in the Sierra Leonean army.

Emmerson Amidu Bockarie is a Sierra Leonian musician, and song writer. His music borrows from various genres - local beats, hip hop, calypso, reggae, etc.
He is famous for his political songs which have made him very popular in his country.

His first album also targeted corrupt and selfish officials (Borbor bele). His song 2 Fut Arata, which means two-footed rats, likened candidates in Sierra Leone's upcoming presidential race to rats - trying to get elected by any means necessary. He's been called a 'message musician'.