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Q’s creative roots stretch back to his school years, when his earliest creative expressions were largely visual. He worked as a designer for the clothing line Velmor and built an underground reputation among students for personalising sneakers, drawing boards, writing pads and other items with custom graffiti art.

His musical development began early and was shaped by both family and school. Introduced to music through uncles who were guitarists, DJs and talent managers, Q began learning piano in Class 4, at around ten years old, through school music classes and private lessons arranged by his father. He also trained in Ghanaian flute at school.

At 14, he spent several months learning guitar and musical arrangement alongside the National Symphony Orchestra. By 17, he had begun producing his own instrumentation using Fruity Loops, bringing together the visual, musical and technical interests that would continue to define his creative work.

He has also worked under the name Seven and became known as The Tiger Haired Creative.

Q co-founded the BACON Gang, which later developed into The BACON Group, and served as a producer, curator and featured artist within the collective. Its work included the Bacon Tapes and a wider involvement in Ghana’s independent and alternative creative scene.

In 2020, he expanded his industry work by signing with the Angry Panda Music Group as its second official creative listing.

Musically, Q moves between alternative rap and a softer, melodic singing style he has described as almost “lullaby-ish.” His catalogue includes “Wave” and its stripped-back Acoustic Version, “Jealous,” “Joog Twice,” “Trips To Japan,” “Highlife,” a 2024 collaboration with FRD and Samsney, and “The Fire Song,” released in 2025 and used in the short horror film Tantra, directed by Helel Smith.

His creative work has also extended beyond recorded music. Q curated the Mawcom Xhibition and has been involved in showcases and creative events supporting independent artists including Yom the Poet and FRD.

Alongside his creative career, Q has built and operated businesses across technology, logistics, agriculture and the creative industries.

He founded 9 Catfish Place, an agricultural venture through which he developed a replicable catfish farming model intended to make small-scale aquaculture accessible as an income-generating activity for families, individuals and pensioners.

His executive and business work has included serving as Country Manager for Fear No Man, as well as financial and executive roles with tech-based logistics company APL and multimedia production company iCandy Factory.

He is also the founder of Asaana Inside, a venture and technology company building businesses and software systems for African SMEs. Its growing product portfolio includes business intelligence, point-of-sale, payroll, compliance and operational technology, alongside ventures developed and supported within the wider Asaana ecosystem.

Across these businesses, his work centres on building systems that allow small and growing organisations to operate with greater structure, visibility and scale.

Q entered recovery after years of substance use and has maintained continuous sobriety since 1 October 2018. His experience eventually developed into professional work in addiction management, prevention and recovery.

In 2023, marking five years clean, he launched the 5 Years Clean Tour through Recovery Talk Africa, taking addiction education, recovery conversations and mental-health advocacy into schools, churches and communities, primarily across the Greater Accra Region.

Recovery Talk Africa has since developed beyond the tour into a wider recovery initiative combining public education, community support, workshops, drug testing and personalised addiction counselling and management.

Q’s work increasingly focuses on the systems surrounding addiction: prevention and early intervention, treatment and recovery support, family and community education, and the development of recovery infrastructure suited to African social and cultural contexts.

Rather than treating his recovery story solely as personal testimony, his work seeks to turn lived experience into practical structures that can help other people avoid addiction, enter recovery and build sustainable lives beyond treatment.