Career
Born in London he spent the early part of his life living in India, travailing throughout Europe then going to school of Rivindell in San Francisco California before returning to London at the age of eight where he went to Montem Primary School then Acland Burghley Secondary School. Having worked the highly competitive United Kingdom underground scene for years, displaying his lyrical wizardry and off-the-wall style, has made a reputation for himself with some of the scenes most respected names. Rapping form a very early age he quickly became involved in various bands at school and recorded at age 14 with Deckwrecka.
He then went on to form Hip Hop band A2M at Fabulous Records and performed at venues such as Powerhouse and Rock Garden.
His reputation has earned him a spot as a judge at Battle Scars. From the early Mudlumz shows and appearances at Kung Fu and Breaking Bread, has performed alongside some of the United Kingdom greats including Black Twang, Jehst, Mud Fam, Outdaville, 57th Dynasty, Task Force, Phi Life Cypher, Foreign Beggars, Contact Play, DJ Blakey and DJ Nu-Mark from Jurassic 5.
He has also toured up and down the country with his various crews Underground Alliance ( Sreaming Soul, DDF, Editor Skrein, Stig of the Dump ), Double Vision and Zulu Nation. He has recorded with many different producers including DJ Yoda, Rawdog,Juliano of The Creators, John "Zos Kia" Gosling AKA Mekon from Wall of Sound, Arcane and even United States Punk Rock group Madcap in Los Angeles to name a few.
He has featured on different projects and has two European Parliament’s to his name.
The underground classic “Just the Beginning” and the critically acclaimed 5 Senses of Def produced by Dagnabbit from the Foreign Beggars. also co hosted with TJ Chill "The Zulu Nation rap Show" on ITCH FM and also hosted his own show on Vision FM called "lieutenant Must be the Music". Krishna Premda is mostly known for his work as and his European Parliament 5 Senses of Def which was generally well received by critics. Most notably in Undercover Magazine were it got 4 stars and record of the month and DJ Magazine where it received 4 stars and The Sure Player.
The Civil Defense version also features the actor/mc Editor Skrein.
Is the platform/home/brand for all Krishna Premda"s music and also others bands and solo artists. Moonfleet is an online gallery set up by Krishna Premda to include all art created by him.
lieutenant also contains art by other artists who have an association or friendship with him.
