Ghanaian musician Black Sherif has opened up about the evolution of his music, insisting that despite the changes in his sound, he remains the same artiste who gained recognition with songs such as First Sermon, Second Sermon and Kwaku the Traveler.
Speaking in an interview with Anita Akuffo on TV3 on September 22, 2026, Black Sherif said his identity as a musician has remained unchanged, even though his recent music sounds different from the songs that brought him widespread recognition.
“Me as the man, the doer, nothing has changed about me. Because First Sermon, Second Sermon, Kwaku the Traveller, how raw, how grungy they are, I was making music before that. I’m still the man who got that recognition,” he said.
According to the musician, a comparison between the music he released around 2021 and the songs he has been making in 2025 and 2026 reveals a clear evolution in his sound.
“The music sounds different. Like when you put them side by side, the 2021 music I was making and the 2025-2026 music I’m making, they sound different when I hear them. It’s the same man,” he explained.
Black Sherif also traced his musical identity back to his high school days, stating that the songs he made around 2019 already carried elements of what listeners would later come to identify as his style.
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“The music I was making in high school in 2019 and getting out of high school in June 2019, during the pandemic, they sound like Sun Sherif,” he stated.
He described his recent musical direction as a “reintroduction” of himself to his audience, suggesting that his artistic identity has several layers that he is still exploring.
“It’s just like a reintroduction of the entertainer or the type of artiste I really want to be to the people and how many layers there is to me,” he shared.
The Kwaku the Traveller hitmaker noted that he is still discovering different aspects of himself as an individual and artiste.
“A lot of who I am is very unknown to me as well, so I’m still discovering myself,” he added.
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