With four top ten hits to his name, and one of them being a number one, Wiley has cemented his reputation in the mainstream grime scene giving him the critically acclaimed title, Godfather of Grime.
Richard Kylea Cowie, born January 19th 1979, is widely known by his pseudonym, Wiley, but in his earlier career, “Wiley Kat. Hailing from Bow, Easy Landon he is a songwriter and record producer, who wears is Caribbean and Trinidad and Antiguan roots on his sleeve. He has surprisingly been on the scene for longer than you would assume having been a member of the UK Garage group Pay As U Go, who achieved a top 40 hit for the song Champagne Dance in 2001. A fantastic forward thinking artist is Wiley, always thinking about all of his endeavours at once, focussing on many projects, including his own.
It was when he released the single “Wot Do U Call It?” in 2004, which is from his album “Treddin’ on Thin Ice” that he created quite a stir in the charts, and it only got better from there over the years. His next big hit was a song called “Wearing My Rolex” in 2008, which made it to number 2 in the charts. Of course, his calling was the song “Heatwave” featuring Ms D, which made it to number 1 in the UK Singles Chart. Wiley continues to write, record release albums and tour and then repeat to this day.
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