Daniel Nii Ankrah a.k.a BlackJack was brought up in a lively and musical Ghanaian family. He has always been a performer and loved to impersonate Michael Jackson's dance moves/singing, which was one of many influences which inspired him to make his own music.

BlackJack has been making tunes since he was 4, when him and his sisters (Ayika - www.myspace.com/ayika - and Ama - www.myspace.com/1ama) started playing around on their Dad's organ player and writing songs.

He has been singing since he was 5 and started producing aged 15 starting on Music 1, then onto Music 2000, both on the Playstation. He then moved onto Logic and Cubase.

In July 2005 he started working with Reason 2.5 on a PC, he has since moved to Reason 4 on an Apple Mac as of July 2009.

He was previously a solo artist performing under the name DA'man at Linbo1 studios.

In that time he performed at Bristol's Carling Academy at 'The Urban Showcase' which was hosted by Timmi Magic (The Dreem Team). He and his sister Ayika also helped produce a track with Timmi for their managers band, Focus.

Nowadays he is apart of the group Circle Of Funk (www.myspace.com/circleoffunk), on the Slapped Up Soul label (www.myspace.com/slappedupsoul). He is also producing tracks for his wife Helen - www.myspace.com/sweetsince86