{"id":1217181,"date":"2022-10-06T09:31:19","date_gmt":"2022-10-06T09:31:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/10\/06\/black-sherif-releases-debut-album-the-villain-i-never-was\/"},"modified":"2022-10-06T09:31:19","modified_gmt":"2022-10-06T09:31:19","slug":"black-sherif-releases-debut-album-the-villain-i-never-was","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/10\/06\/black-sherif-releases-debut-album-the-villain-i-never-was\/","title":{"rendered":"Black Sherif\u00a0 releases debut album \u2018The Villain I Never Was\u2019 \u2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Ghanaian star\u00a0Black Sherif takes the global stage with his debut album The Villain I Never Was, which is out today via RBA \/ EMPIRE. Sonically filmic and purposefully biographic, \u2018The Villain I Never Was\u2019 is Black Sherif\u2019s trials and tribulations.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt took me everything to give life to this body,\u201d the 20-year-old artist said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe one thing in my life that I gave everything up for. There is life in this body, I hope it treats you good and speaks to you like I want it to,\u201d he earlier wrote in a social media post.<\/p>\n<p>His journey, from a young Muslim man from the mining town of Konongo to an internationally celebrated artist, is as harrowing as it is electrifying, as depicted in \u201c45\u201d and \u201cSoja,\u201d the project\u2019s focus tracks.<\/p>\n<p>Combining his native tongue of Twi and his gift for storytelling with \u201casakaa\u201d (the Ghanaian take on the popular drill sound) and Afrobeats, Black Sherif blends cultures to create his own world on The Villain I Never Was.<\/p>\n<p>Already with # plus global streams to his name, from hits like \u201cKwaku The Traveller\u201d and \u201cSecond Sermon,\u201d Black Sherif is proud to deliver his first full-length project and make his US debut with a performance at Elsewhere in New York City on Sunday, November 6th.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script>(function(d, s, id) {\n  var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\n  if (d.getElementById(id)) return;\n  js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\n  js.src=\"https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js#xfbml=1&version=v3.1&appId=1201200913327594&autoLogAppEvents=1\";\n  fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\n}(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/starrfm.com.gh\/2022\/10\/black-sherif-releases-debut-album-the-villain-i-never-was\/\">Source<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ghanaian star\u00a0Black Sherif takes the global stage with his debut album The Villain I Never Was, which is out today via RBA \/ EMPIRE. Sonically filmic and purposefully biographic, \u2018The Villain I Never Was\u2019 is Black Sherif\u2019s trials and tribulations. \u201cIt took me everything to give life to this body,\u201d the 20-year-old artist said. \u201cThe [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1217184,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[8334,94,3210,2192,7603,26243],"class_list":["post-1217181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-album","tag-black","tag-debut","tag-releases","tag-sherif","tag-villain"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1217181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1217181"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1217181\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1217181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1217181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1217181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}