Black Sherif has been listed among top global superstars who are expected to perform at this year’s Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival in the United States of America (USA).
This year’s edition, expected to feature Justin Bieber, Nas, and Frank Ocean, will take place from Friday, April 14, to Sunday, April 23, 2023 at California’s Empire Polo Club in Indio.
Other African artists on the unofficial list are Burna Boy, Tems, and Asake.
Born Mohammed Ismail Shariff, the 20-year-old talented artist released “Money”, “Cry For Me”, and “Destiny” in 2020, which gained him some traction online. Later, he dropped “Money (remix)”, “Adea Kye”, and “Ankonam” and garnered huge buzz on Boomplay across several countries.
When Black Sherif’s “First Sermon” and “Second Sermon” were released in 2021, they went viral and brought him to the mainstream limelight.
A remix of his “Second Sermon” featuring Burna Boy gave him further reach across Africa and beyond. Consequently, during Boomplay’s Recap 2021, which highlights stats and insights of music consumption and engagement on the Boomplay platform, Blacko emerged as Ghana’s 2nd Most Streamed Artist of 2021 and his “First Sermon” and “Second Sermon” were the 1st and 2nd Most Streamed Songs of 2021 in Ghana. In the same year, he was adjudged the Entertainment Personality of the Year at the 2022 EAA Awards.
His story written in bright stars, Black Sherif, went on to win the 4 awards at the 2022 3Music Awards, held in March 2022, including the Boomplay Breakthrough Act of the Year. At the same event, he debuted a spectacular performance of his latest single, “Kwaku the Traveller”. The song skyrocketed him to African stardom and peaked at NO.1 on both Boomplay Ghana and Nigeria charts.
It currently has over 200 million streams on Boomplay.
