Koffee Marks 21st Birthday With Adorable Baby Pics
As part of her extended 20th birthday celebrations last year, Reggae/Dancehall superstar Koffee, spent her birthday doing donuts in a Dubai desert with a high-powered vehicle under the tutelage of professional race car drivers.
Today, as she turns 21, the music world is not sure how she is celebrating her earthstrong. All that is known is that in marking her coming of age birthday, she posted three photos of herself, one in her mother Jo-Anne Williams’ arms as a toddler, a solo photo as an infant, and a recent one of herself. Her caption was simple. All it said was: “21”.
The post evoked more than 55,000 likes within a four hour period and a series of re-shares by her fans, as well as best wishes from some of the Ardenne High School graduate’s male Dancehall and Reggae compatriots including Chronixx who wrote: “More paa more”, Protoje, who sent her five stars and Popcaan who gave her the hi-five whilst adding: “1 up sis”.
Producer of her Lockdown hit Dane Ray also hailed the Grammy princess noting: “More life my G“, along with a hi-five, as did Tefon Zinc Fence who wrote: “More life and blessings sis live it up”.
“Aye happy birthday,” wrote her Cynide collaborator Canadian R&B artiste, Daniel Caesar.
Koffee whose given name is Mikayla Simpson, was born in Spanish Town, St. Catherine, and brought up alone by her mother, who is a psychiatric nursing aide, her father having left for New York when she was an infant, according to her official website.
Koffee got her name during high school at Ardenne, after ordering a coffee on a scorching hot day whilst her schoolmates opted for soda. She started out in music as a little girl in the Seventh Day Adventist church choir, where, like so many of her musical counterparts, she learned melody and harmony.
By the age of 12, the Ragamuffin artist, who is described by her mother as a “little girl who never gave trouble”, taught herself to play the guitar after a friend lent her his spare one. She started to pen lyrics in her bedroom after being inspired by Protoje, and in 2016, she accidentally auditioned for her school talent show which she won.
In 2017, an acoustic-guitar performance of a song called Legend, which she had written in honor of Usain Bolt, went viral after the track icon reposted the video on Instagram. That same year she voiced the single Burning on Upsetta Records’ Ouji Riddim.
As Koffee made her ascension, in January 2018, Reggae veteran Cocoa Tea took the teen, whom he declared would be Reggae’s next big star, to perform at Tony Rebel’s Reggae show Rebel Salute in St. Ann. Protoje also asked her to perform with him, while Chronixx, invited her to join him on Seani B’s 1Xtra show.
The rest was history!