Colos (rapper)

Colos
Birth name	Atdhe Gashi
Born	1981 (age 29–30) Prizren, Yugoslavia - present day Kosovo
Genres	German hip hop
Years active	2004–present
Labels	Mellowvibes Records
Website	www.colos36.de

Colos (born Atdhe Gashi, in 1981 in Prizren, Yugoslavia - present day Kosovo^[a]) is an Albanian rapper living in Germany. He is currently an artist of Mellow Vibes Records and is residing in Berlin.

Career

Colos came in 1994 as a war refugee from Kosovo to Germany and lived in Berlin-Kreuzberg. At the age of 21 ended his acquiescence in Germany and the beginning of 2002 he had returned to Kosovo, where he stayed 18 months. At the end of 2003 he came to Germany illegally and found an asylum application, which was granted him and allowed for a year in Germany to stay. After this year, he lived illegally in Germany.

2004, his label Soul Street, which is a short time later in the label VS Recordz some influence, which he, together with the producers Woroc operates. With this Colos also founded the crew VS Mafia, to which today even the rapper Pain and ST Chagome and producer Kazanova belong.

2006, shortly after the release of his first solo album Honey blood, it signte Berlin Independent Hip Hop Label Mellow Vibes Records, which by Sami Mansour aka. Ben Zulu King and DJ Afrika Bambaataa was founded. On this label he released in May 2007 its 2nd Solo album Life in Exile, which is a lot of good reviews and got him an entry in the Backspin HipHop Jahrbuch 2007 brought.

End of 2007 turned Colos is for personal reasons to the authorities and was on 10 November 2007 returned to Kosovo.

After more than nine months stay in Kosovo is the native Albanians from Kosovo returned to Germany. After a few months after his arrival in Berlin was on 29 Colos September 2008 alongside the journalist and author Wolfgang Büscher, MTV presenter Patrice, gynecologist and Sami Ben Mansour a guest at the press conference on Germany's Forgotten Children soundtrack, which after three days on Mellow Vibes Records. On the soundtrack are just 50 tracks, d.a. Many famous singers and rappers like Kool Savas, Xavier Naidoo, D-Flame, and many others worked with. The proceeds of the sampler is in the work of the Children and Youth Agency archetypes go, at least some of the estimated two million children in Germany live below the poverty line have to give a perspective.

Discography

Studio albums

• 2006: Honigblut
• 2007: Leben im Exil
• 2009: Independent

Notes and references

Notes:

a.	^ Kosovo is the subject of a territorial dispute between the Republic of Serbia and the self-proclaimed Republic of Kosovo. It declared independence on 17 February 2008, while Serbia claims it as part of its own sovereign territory. Its independence is recognised by 85 UN member states.

References:

External links

• Official website
• Colos at Allmusic

Persondata
Name	Colos
Alternative names	Gashi, Atdhe (birth name)
Short description	Albanian rapper
Date of birth	1981
Place of birth	Prizren, Yugoslavia
Date of death
Place of death