Hardy Tayyib-Bah (born May 23, 1996), professionally known as Hardy Caprio is a Sierra Leone-born British artist from Croydon, South London.

Emerging from South London, Caprio began to post his music on YouTube as early as 2013 via the StoneEmpireRecords YouTube channel as he released his debut mixtape, Indecisive.

Starting to take his music career more seriously at nineteen years old, Caprio had begun to post his music on the SBTV: Music YouTube channel. Hardy’s videos began to rake in hundreds of thousands of views.

Releasing his debut EP, Hardy Season in early 2017, he also released his sophomore EP, The Hollywood EP just months later.

Hardy later broke out in the summer when he released his single “Unsigned” featuring One Acen which accumulated over thirty million views on the GRM Daily YouTube channel.

Just a year later, he would again go viral after releasing “Best Life” featuring One Acen. Hardy would also become even more recognised in the UK rap culture as his DigDat-accompanied “Guten Tag” would later take off.

Releasing only twelve singles from 2019 to 2021, Hardy announced his comeback via a TikTok video while simultaneously teasing a song which is thought to release in June.