Music like KO

Ko Kapches (born c. 1986), better known by the stage name KO ( KOH), is a Canadian musician whose music is a mix of folk, hip hop, reggae, rock and R&B —a sound which KO refers to as "urban-funk and urban-folk".

KO was born into a middle class Greek family in Toronto; his mother was a curator for the Royal Ontario Museum and his father a real estate lawyer. Raised in the Toronto neighbourhood of Riverdale, KO grew up in a musical environment; "we always had guitars around," KO said in an interview. "I even went for guitar lessons, but after two or three lessons my teacher told me that my hands were too small and that I would never be a guitar player. I never went back."

While staying with friends involved in hip hop, he began to experiment with recording guitar over drum beats and eventually laid some tracks in a recording studio. His parents recognized that KO was becoming serious about his music and helped to connect him with someone in the music business. By 2006 he was signed by Atlantic Records New York, along with their Canadian affiliate Warner Music Canada later that same year.