Sydney’s Biography!
Sydney Kofi Agar, popularly known as Bobonajah, was born on April 14th, 1983 at Tema General Hospital in Ghana – West Africa. His mother, the late Mrs. Dorcas Aba Thompson and his father, Mr. Togbe Samoul Agar the 1st, both lived in Tema their entire lives. They were never married and stayed in deferent communities.
On his mother’ side, he has one sister and one brother, making them three. On his father’ side, he has six sisters and seven brothers of which he is the last born.
He stayed with his mother during his early years and when he was 7years old his father came for him so they could live together while attending school.
He attended nursery school at “God Will Day Care Center” and then attended “Creator Primary and Junior
Secondary School”. He completed his Secondary education at Tema Methodist Day Senior Secondary School where he studied pure science, which includes Chemistry, Biology, Math and Physics.
Sydney enjoys reading, singing, acting, dancing, listening to music and also composing. His passion for the arts particularly music lead him to join a life band group called “Worrier Street Band”. The band travelled extensively within the country, commonly performing on beaches, and other local places that attracted foreigners and the like for his daily bread.
During one of his many beach performances, he met his partner and friend, Nana Brobbey, who shared the same ideas and love of music.
They decided to combine their talents to produce the kind of cultural music they felt should be heard and enjoyed by everyone, both nationally and internationally.
Sydney and Nana later decided upon a name for their new group, calling it, BTB.
BTB means Big Time Bobos aka Believe The Bible. This name came about because Sydney’s nickname is Bobonajah and Nana’s nickname is Boboshanti.
They decided that since both their nicknames begin with Bobo then it is only appropriate that name of the group also have the name bobo thus BTB – Big Time Bobos.
