Kwabena Okyere Darko aka Obrafour, who hails from Kwawu in the eastern region was born in 1978. His spent his early childhood at Kwawu and when he was 5 years old, he left for Accra to live with his parents.

Obrafuor who attended New Star Preparatory and then proceeded to Abetifi Secondary and St. Peter's Secondary School was born in real life as Michael Elliot Kwabena Okyere Darko in 1976 to Mr. Kwaku Okyere Darko and Mrs. Gladys Agyapomaa in Kwahu-Obo.