Award-winning Ghanaian artiste, Black Sherif has disclosed that his style of music best suits the Highlife genre.
For many Ghanaians, this could come as surprising but also a validation to a few who ranked him a Highlife artiste and believed he is the man to reinstate the popular Ghanaian music genre to its graceful days.
In an interview with NY DJ on Y102.5 FM’s “Ryse N Shyne”, Blacko reiterated every song he makes is inspired by “real Highlife sounds”. According to him, he wants every piece of music he does irrespective of the genre to have a Highlife theme embedded.
He opined that the current generation has little admiration for genres but only relate to sounds that make sense to them.
“Let me tell you this, our generation don’t really care about genres like that. You know you just do it and it has to be like make sense to them. But I, Sherif, my bedrock and everything is Highlife. So every beat I hear I try to be my Highlife self and tap into my childhood Reggae timing to make the music. I need to make sense on the beat and have my Highlife theme in my music then I’m good to go,” he told NY DJ.
Black Sherif has released his debut album uniquely titled ‘The Villain I Never Was’, where he pronounced the album as his autobiography. “Life has been tough on me and I have seen a lot. Whatever you listen to on my album, I have seen it all. The album is my autobiography and it is all me from the first to the last song.”
The album described by most as a masterpiece had only Burna Boy featured on ‘Second Sermon’ with other hits like ‘Soja’, ‘Prey Da Youngsta’, ‘Oil in my Head’, ‘Konongo Zongo’ and ‘Wasteman’ among others.
By: Jude Tackie
