Biography
Boateng Agyei, popularly known as DJ Boat, is a Ghanaian music curator, DJ, and cultural tastemaker born and raised in Eastern Ghana. Influenced early by Ghana’s hiplife scene, his passion for music deepened after moving to the South Bronx, New York, in 2003 for high school, where he began creating mixtapes for friends and classmates.
While studying at Cornell University during the rise of Ghana’s Azonto movement, DJ Boat reconnected with African music and began DJing college house parties. An early adopter of Spotify, he identified a gap in African music curation and created an Afrobeats playlist that went viral, now reaching over 870K+ combined followers.
Since then, DJ Boat has grown into a key voice within the global African music community, expanding into YouTube content and artist collaborations. His recent collaborations have amassed over 50M combined streams. Through his work, DJ Boat aims to “use African music to change perceptions about Africa.”