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– –<\/span> Blacko, who grew up in Konongo Zongo in the Ashanti Region, claims that he was heavily influenced by the popularity of dancehall music from an early age.<\/p>\n Black Sherif, appearing on Asaase Radio in Accra via virtual interview from London, revealed that although his mother introduced him to Highlife, his father first played him Reggae.<\/p>\n \u201cThe first song I ever created was a dancehall tune, so I guess you could call myself a dancehall artiste from the days of Konongo Zongo when I first began making music.<\/p>\n – –<\/span> READ ALSO:\u00a0Black Sherif is carrying the mantle now- Sarkodie admits<\/p>\n \u201cThe reality is that, as a kid growing up in my area, I was heavily influenced by dancehall music since that was what most other kids listened to.<\/p>\n – –<\/span> \u201cBlack Sherif informed the presenter, \u201cMy mom originally let me listen to Highlife songs, and my dad generally listened to reggae music, but dancehall music is so enormous among the kids in the Zongos around the nation.\u201d<\/p>\n – –<\/span> – – Mohammed Ismail Sherif Kwaku Frimpong, better known by his stage name Black Sherif, is a rapidly growing artist in Ghana. Blacko, who grew up in Konongo Zongo in the Ashanti Region, claims that he was heavily influenced by the popularity of dancehall music from an early age. Black Sherif, appearing on Asaase Radio […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1094873,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[151,94,12900,1484,7603,6622],"class_list":["post-1254653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-artiste","tag-black","tag-dancehall","tag-music","tag-sherif","tag-started"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1254653","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=1254653"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1254653\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1254653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1254653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1254653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n<\/p>\nMohammed Ismail Sherif Kwaku Frimpong, better known by his stage name Black Sherif, is a rapidly growing artist in Ghana.<\/strong><\/h2>\n
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