Jakai Nobutu is born in Sweden in 2004 to a Finnish mother and a Zambian father. He started taking dance and acting classes at the age of 3 and continued with the hobby to the age of 8. He has been in numerous ad campaigns and a few music videos, apart from the small role he played in "Bloody boys" (Jävla pojkar) as Björn at the age of 4. Jakai is fluent in three languages, Finnish, Swedish and English, in written, as well as in spoken language.