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Jane Oranika (otherwise known as the internet rapper Chika) is on the come up.In only 16 months, the multi talented artist (boasting skills in poetry and visual art), has made sharp buzz around Twitter with her short freestyles that not only take on Beyonce’s ‘’Ego’’ challenge but a rap rework of Ed Sheeran’s The Shape Of You that blew up around the internet.
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Jane Oranika, otherwise known Chika, is a 21 year old rapper, singer and songwriter. A Montgomery, Alabama native and the daughter of Nigerian immigrants, Chika began singing at the age of two, learned piano at eight and guitar at the age of 11. She began writing poems when she was 12 and three years later began her singing career.
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