      niomi arleen mclean-daley  (born 26 april 1981), who performs as ms. dynamite, is an english hip hop and r&b recording artist, rapper-songwriter, and record producer. she is the recipient of the mercury music prize, two brit awards and three mobo awards. ==biography== ms. dynamite was born in crawley and raised in archway, a district in north london, to a jamaican father and a scottish mother. as stated on the programme ms. dynamite: in search of nanny maroon, in addition to her jamaican-scottish parentage, she shares bajan, english, irish, german and grenadian ancestries. she grew up listening to reggae and hip-hop music. though she wanted to become a schoolteacher or social worker, her biggest aspiration was to be a musician. she is the eldest of eleven siblings, one of whom is a socially aware artist and journalist known as akala, and attended acland burghley school in london. ==career== ===2001â04: a little deeper=== ms. dynamite (originally called lady dynamite) was first known for her vocals on the uk garage underground track "booo!", which was regularly played on london pirate radio stations and was later released as a single. while working at the radio station raw fm, ms. dynamite was discovered by richard forbes a.k.a. dj sticky at a west end club. interest grew from all major british labels and eventually she was signed via her management bigga beats to polydor records, where she met producer salaam remi, who cultivated her talent. she released her debut album, a little deeper, in 2002, which featured hit songs "it takes more" and "dy-na-mi-tee". in 2003, the album was released in the united states to [[music journalism|cri
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