Mzbel,known in private life as Nana Ekua Amoah,was born on Boxing Day,that is,December 26,1979 in Accra to Mr Albert A. Amoah, an engineer and the late Agnes Nyarko.She is the last-born of seven children.

“She grew up in the ghetto — James Town and Mallam,”.After attending God’s Wisdom Preparatory and Morning Star schools, she continued to Korle Gonno I and Owusu Mills JSS at Mamprobi for her junior secondary school education.