Meet Mr. S: The smooth-operating Ghanaian singer/songwriter charting his own path.
The music scene globally has undergone a steady metamorphosis over the years. This evolution has been even more exponential in recent years thanks to the popularity and transition of music consumption from downloads to streams. The new dynamic has been particularly kind to independent artistes who can now release very quality material without having to go through the bureaucracy of record labels. One of such artistes to benefit from this shift in attitudes is Ghanaian singer-songwriter Mr. S. Often conflicted in his own thoughts, Mr. S expresses how his music journey has been stuttered over the years due to the pain of missing out on near-successes. In the formative period of his career, the Soloist experimented with a genre he wanted to call “Sang Poems” - an adaption of spoken word but in this sense with crooning. “I always felt I had a calling to do something unique. Before anything I am a writer first. Initially I believed I could coin a style that was simply poems sang out on a be