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This week’s episode features Nigerian (via St. Louis) Afrobeat artist Sammy Brank performing his original, “Samething.”
About this week’s artist:
Samson Famoyegun (aka Sammy Brank) was born in Nigeria in the city of Lagos, Ikeja, and is best known as an Afrobeat artist specializing in Afropop, Street music, and Afrobeat live music. With over 20k followers on Instagram and 2k subscribers on YouTube, his content has over 500k total views since 2019. Sammy Brank has collaborated and performed with Mayorkun, Davido, Diamond Platnumz, Nandy, Kizz Daniel (recent), Bella Shmurda (tour), and Tiwa Savage. His releases achieved sales in the hundreds of thousands, including the single “Jijo” (10k), the single “TwoTwo” (100k), the Unexpected EP (100K streams sale), the single “Plenty” (100K streams sales and Codes), and the single “Protocols” (200K). He recently toured with Bella Shmurda. When he was 13, he dreamt of becoming an artist and was usually in studio. He learned melodies and vocals in the church choir. In 2020 he was featured as a top ten SoundCloud afrobeat artist, in 2019 he was an uprising afrobeat artist on Boomplay, a fast uprising afrobeat artist in Audiomack in 2021. When he was in high school, he would always organize shows for the school as a curriculum activity and also organized street shows. Sammy Brank also does a lot of afrobeat festivals, including the 2019 African fest St. Louis, the 2021 Afro fest Maryland, the 2021 Go African fest New York, and the 2022 Afrobeat Dallas. Sammy Brank started in 2019 when he dropped his first single “Jijo.”
What is the song about? What inspired it?
This song “Samething” is about the rich and the poor, meaning everyone goes through same problem in life meaning searching for green pasture. The rich are working to solve their problem and poor looking forward for daily bread. Been friends with wealthy people. I realized we all share same problem, looking for a green pasture.
What makes you unique as an artist?
What make me unique from others is that I put a lot of thought into my lyrics which give it a deeper meaning to what my fans are listening to.
What’s next for you?
My next plan is to take my music across the world—good music is a general language everyone can understand.
Links:
Instagram | YouTube | Spotify | Apple Music
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