Emily Adade Boateng — Defender.

A voice that arrived early.

Emily Adade Boateng was born in 2012 in Ghana's Western Region and started recording at eleven. She has not slowed down since.

Her debut album, King of Glory — eight tracks, sung with a composure that had no business belonging to an eleven-year-old — arrived in 2024. The Aseda EP followed the same year, its title track carrying a feature from Joyce Blessing, one of the biggest names in Ghanaian gospel. By the end of her first year she had released more than two dozen recordings.

As Ghana went to the polls in December 2024, she released Peace with Selina Boateng — a child's plea for a calm nation that travelled from church services to radio, and was referenced in Parliament during the election season.

Miracle Working God (June 2025) and Nyame Prɛkopɛ (January 2026) made it three albums before her fourteenth birthday. At the 2025 Western Music Awards she took home both Best New Artiste of the Year and Gospel Song of the Year — the latter for Aseda. In March 2026 she signed with PM Entertainment Consult, the Takoradi company's first gospel artiste, with a fourth album already in the works.

She writes her own songs, sings in Twi and English, and moves between praise, worship and jazz-inflected arrangements. Then she carries all of it where the cameras don't follow — prisons, campuses and orphanages.

As featured by MyJoyOnline, Ghana Music, Modern Ghana and YFM.