Bou

Mohamed Amine Bouguenna, known professionally as Bou, is an Algeria-born musician from Manchester, UK. He featured on Bru-C's "Streetside" before releasing "Closer" with Slay and "Baddadan" with Chase & Status, which peaked at numbers 84, 24, and 5 on the UK Singles Chart. Bouguenna was inspired to start producing after hearing jump-up on SoundCloud. After leaving school, he attempted a college course, which he failed to due to his use of FL Studio as opposed to Logic Pro or Ableton Live, and then attempted an apprenticeship at an IT company, but was fired after being caught producing beats on company time. Bouguenna played his first set in 2014, aged 17, which was streamed in collaboration with Bloc2Bloc, and released his first single, "Movements" featuring Dutta, on Clawhammer Recordz in 2015.