Raff Chanco

Raff Chanco started with music when he was eight years old. He released his first single at 12 years old. At the age of 14 years he released his first album with six tracks, with which he reached the number one position on the local radio. In 2010, Raff Chanco released his first Gospel album and started to gain success with two songs on the hitlist at the same time. His hit song 'Sma Nanga Jeje' stayed 3 weeks on the number one position. Raff Chanco was named best artist of that year. In 2012 his second Gospel album was released. The song was on the number one position for 6 weeks and is one of his biggest hit till date, a monumental song. Since 2010 Raff Chanco has been performing as main act at every Gospel event. He performed in Suriname and French Guyana. Raff Chanco has also been opener for international artists like Israel Houghton, Sherwin Gardner, Jermaine Edwards, Sonnie Badu etc. Raff Chanco has had number one songs over the years namely ; Gafa ft Asgar Koster and Eugene Main, Gado Ju bigi, Smile, Yu Na Mi Taanga, Paadong etc. Raff Chanco is the first Suriname Gospel artist to reach 1 Million Views on Youtube with the song Yu Na Mi Taanga. In 2021 Raff Chanco wrote and sang the theme song for the Suriname National soccer team and reached more the 500k views on Spotify in months.