Angel Dweh
- Actor
- Writer
- Director
Angel Dweh, (born November 14, 1999), is a Liberian-American singer, recording artist, songwriter, composer, dancer, and actor. He was born to Alice Dweh, a businesswoman in Monrovia, Liberia. His mother a native of the Krahn ethnic group of eastern Liberia and later immigrated to the United States.
Angel is known for incorporating multiple genres in his songwriting such as Pop, Afropop/Afrobeat, and R&B. His effervescent music embodies a truly unique sound that represents his personality and his home country of Liberia. Angel's distinctive vocal style in the Afropop/Afrobeats music genre has earned him the title of "Afro-Prince."
Since emerging on the music scene in 2020 with the hit singles "Love a Good Thing", "Salud", "Hard for Me" and "Flexin," Angel has been grabbing the attention of critics both locally and internationally. His single, "Kokona" was one of the most-played songs on independent radio stations in Nigeria, Liberia, and Tanzania. On the Master Class Radio show in Canada, another hit single, "Salud" ranked within the top 5 songs. Angel's music video for "Hard for Me" placed in the top three on Hot TV in Liberia.
In his preteen years. As a student at Ephrata High School, Angel participated in the Honor Choir Festival as a tenor at Lebanon Valley College (2019), and the LLMEA Festival (2017), (2018). He was a member of the Tri-M Honor Music Society and a guest performer with the Mountaineer Men Choir at the Ephrata Middle School Choral Concert (2019). He also performed the National Anthem at the U.S. Women's National Field Hockey Game (2017).
Angel participated in both school and community musical theater productions. His first experience on stage was portraying Seaweed J. Stubbs in a school production of Hairspray (2014) as an 8th-grade middle school student. As a high school student, he played Brujon in Les Miserables (2015) and performed as a dancer/singer in Grease (2016). Angel was featured as a dancer in Beauty & The Beast (2018) and The Adam's Family (2019) in the Ephrata High School Theater productions. At the Ephrata Performance Art Center, Angel performed as a munchkin in The Wizard of Oz (2017), a member of the dance ensemble in Ragtime (2019), and was an understudy for Seaweed J. Stubbs in Hairspray (2018). In his spare time off stage, Angel worked as a print model in a sports-themed photoshoot for C.T. Pix (2017).
He landed his first paid roles in 2018, as Joseph Asagai Erie in Raisin In the Sun with Lancaster-based Theater Company and as a supporting character in the celebrated independent film Bathroom Trolls produced by Aaron Immediato. Angel relocated to Los Angeles, CA after graduating high school in 2019 to attend Hussain College In Studio. He traveled to New York in 2020, to play a supporting role in another independent film, Alberto in the Concrete Jungle directed and written by Chris Shimojima. The Making of Visual (2020) is an autobiographical documentary of his life produced in collaboration with Editor Tianna Camille-Village with original music by Angel Dweh.
Angel is known for incorporating multiple genres in his songwriting such as Pop, Afropop/Afrobeat, and R&B. His effervescent music embodies a truly unique sound that represents his personality and his home country of Liberia. Angel's distinctive vocal style in the Afropop/Afrobeats music genre has earned him the title of "Afro-Prince."
Since emerging on the music scene in 2020 with the hit singles "Love a Good Thing", "Salud", "Hard for Me" and "Flexin," Angel has been grabbing the attention of critics both locally and internationally. His single, "Kokona" was one of the most-played songs on independent radio stations in Nigeria, Liberia, and Tanzania. On the Master Class Radio show in Canada, another hit single, "Salud" ranked within the top 5 songs. Angel's music video for "Hard for Me" placed in the top three on Hot TV in Liberia.
In his preteen years. As a student at Ephrata High School, Angel participated in the Honor Choir Festival as a tenor at Lebanon Valley College (2019), and the LLMEA Festival (2017), (2018). He was a member of the Tri-M Honor Music Society and a guest performer with the Mountaineer Men Choir at the Ephrata Middle School Choral Concert (2019). He also performed the National Anthem at the U.S. Women's National Field Hockey Game (2017).
Angel participated in both school and community musical theater productions. His first experience on stage was portraying Seaweed J. Stubbs in a school production of Hairspray (2014) as an 8th-grade middle school student. As a high school student, he played Brujon in Les Miserables (2015) and performed as a dancer/singer in Grease (2016). Angel was featured as a dancer in Beauty & The Beast (2018) and The Adam's Family (2019) in the Ephrata High School Theater productions. At the Ephrata Performance Art Center, Angel performed as a munchkin in The Wizard of Oz (2017), a member of the dance ensemble in Ragtime (2019), and was an understudy for Seaweed J. Stubbs in Hairspray (2018). In his spare time off stage, Angel worked as a print model in a sports-themed photoshoot for C.T. Pix (2017).
He landed his first paid roles in 2018, as Joseph Asagai Erie in Raisin In the Sun with Lancaster-based Theater Company and as a supporting character in the celebrated independent film Bathroom Trolls produced by Aaron Immediato. Angel relocated to Los Angeles, CA after graduating high school in 2019 to attend Hussain College In Studio. He traveled to New York in 2020, to play a supporting role in another independent film, Alberto in the Concrete Jungle directed and written by Chris Shimojima. The Making of Visual (2020) is an autobiographical documentary of his life produced in collaboration with Editor Tianna Camille-Village with original music by Angel Dweh.