[Musicians] KSI

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• Musician Name:Olajide Olayinka Williams Olatunji
• Birthday / Location: 19 June 1993 (age 30) London, England
• Main instrument: British hip hop trap pop garage grime
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• Other Information: Olajide Olayinka Williams "JJ" Olatunji (born 19 June 1993), known professionally as KSI, is an English influencer, rapper, and boxer. He is a co-founder and member of the British YouTube group known as the Sidemen. He is the CEO of Misfits Boxing and the co-owner of Prime Hydration, XIX Vodka and a restaurant chain known as Sides.
• KSI registered his main YouTube account in 2009 and built a following posting gaming commentary videos of the FIFA video game series. His YouTube content later diversified to include vlog and comedy-style videos. As of October 2022, he has over 41 million subscribers and over 10 billion video views across his three YouTube channels.
• KSI's debut studio album, Dissimulation (2020), debuted at number 2 on the UK Albums Chart. His second studio album, All Over the Place (2021), debuted at number 1. He has achieved fourteen top 40 singles on the UK Singles Chart, seven of them ending up in the Top 10 and five of them ending up in the Top 5. KSI featured in the British comedy film Laid in America (2016) and was the subject of KSI: Can't Lose (2018), a documentary film following the build-up to his first amateur boxing fight against British YouTuber Joe Weller, and KSI: In Real Life (2023), an Amazon Prime Video documentary film following his life from June 2021 to October 2022.
• He was involved in two further boxing events against American YouTuber Logan Paul, the second of which was a professional bout. On 27 August 2022, he was involved in two exhibition boxing bouts against British rapper Swarmz and Mexican boxer Luis Alcaraz Pineda on the same night, both of which he won by KO. On 14 January 2023, he fought FaZe Temperrr in an exhibition boxing bout, which he won via KO in the first round. On 13 May 2023, he fought Joe Fournier in an exhibition boxing bout, which was overturned from a KO win to no contest after a review showed him accidentally striking Fournier with his elbow. KSI is scheduled to fight British professional boxer Tommy Fury on 14 October 2023.
• Olajide Olayinka Williams Olatunji was born on 19 June 1993 in London and was raised in Watford, Hertfordshire. His mother, Yinka Atinuke, is from Islington, London. He and his parents are from the Yoruba ethnic group. He was educated at Berkhamsted School in Berkhamsted, where he met future collaborator and Sidemen member Simon Minter.
• KSI's younger brother, Deji Olatunji, is also a YouTuber. The brothers ranked first and second respectively as the "UK's Most Influential YouTube Creators" by Tubular Labs in 2015.