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Sista Afia is one of those who knows well that a person always builds his own destiny. Since childhood, she had the potential to become anyone but a singer, but the fulfillment of a cherished dream prevailed, and now we can enjoy her inflammatory songs.
Sista Afia was born in Accra, the capital of Ghana, on November 8, 1992. She was born into a fairly famous family, as Afia was the niece of Nicholas Duncan-Williams himself, one of the most popular Africans in religion and one of the most influential Africans. Of course, this meant that her childhood would be surrounded by religion, which is what happened. She soon began to show a pretty good voice, however, it did not go beyond ordinary singing for herself or friends. More and more young Afia was interested in music, but family members wanted her future with a dignified and useful profession. At the time, she thought so too, so she went to study at the Reverend John Teye Memorial Institute, which was a Christian private school. After her graduation, Afia had the opportunity to move to the UK, where she worked as a nurse for a long time.
Over time, Afia increasingly realized that nursing was not for her. While living there, she continued to train her voice and tried to write her own songs. Finally, she took the will in her hands and decided to return to Ghana, where, despite all the troubles, she will pursue a musical career. When she returned, it was time to decide in which musical direction she wanted to realize herself. Without hesitation, Afia chose the well-known afrobeat and traditional hip-hop. This combination of genres has given it variability, so the songs will not seem the same and can always offer listeners something new.
In 2015, Sista Afia officially began her musical career with the song “Kro Kro No”, which she performed together with musician and highlife singer Bisa Kdei. Although this single was the first in her career, the listeners liked it quite a lot. Although it did not gain mass popularity, but it was enough to attract attention. The Ghanian show business quickly spread rumors about a new singer, who can be a huge success. She secured this status when she released her second single, "Are You Ready". It was thanks to this song that Sista Afia became known in Ghana. Her name was often heard in solid circles of show business, which allowed her to collaborate with Ghana’s musical legends.
One of them was a collaboration with Fante Rap God Kofi Kinaata on the song "Yiwani". This song received positive reviews and allowed Afia to get more creative freedom. Such coveted mass popularity her allowed to collaborate with Shatta Wale and Afezi Perry on the song "Jeje", which became her first mass hit. Currently, on the official YouTube channel Sista Afia, the clip for this song has gained more than 2.5 million views. Jeje could be heard on almost any radio station, it was played at parties and discos, music channels, and so on. Just a few weeks after the release of this song, Sista Afia was known to everyone in Ghana, and even in some countries outside of it.
From that moment, an active process of improving both the music and Afia itself began. After such success, it was merely necessary to release tracks that will be even better than Jeje. Around this time, Afia decided that some previous songs and a few future ones would be included on her first album. The next two songs released by Sista Afia were "Slay Queen" and "Champion Atta". Although both of these songs had an inherent highlife/afrobeat rhythm, Slay Queen still had a predominance of traditional hip-hop and pop music. In contrast, Champion Atta had much stronger afrobeat motifs. In the same year, 2018, her album called "Queen Solomon" was released, which was a collection of singles. Also, Afia received her first major music nomination from the 3Music Awards in the category "Female Act of the Year.”
2019 was even more successful than the previous one. The reason was two hits, which raised Sista Afia to a whole new level. The first such single was "Conner Conner" (feat. Kelvyn Boy). This highlife/afrobeat subsequently became one of the best afrobeat songs in 2019, and not just like that. Afterward, it enchants with a simple but inflammatory beat combined with the beautiful vocals of Afia and Kelvyn Boy. The song was produced by Ivan Beats. The song itself tells how wonderful love can be, especially when there is someone around you who is not indifferent to you. The music video for this song has already received more than a million views.
The second single that made Sista Afia even more popular than before was "Weather" feat. Medical and Quamina MP produced by Willis Beatz. "Weather" has become a perfect combination of traditional afrobeat, highlife, hip-hop, and pop music. It contains everything the listener needs: dance rhythm, interesting lyrics, wonderful voice of Afia, and performance Medikal that will appeal to any rap fan, regardless of the country. Although the clip was released in the summer of 2019, it has already gained 1.6 million views.
In 2020, at the prestigious Ghana Music Awards, Sista Afia received two nominations for the song "Conner Conner" in the category of High-Life Song of the Year and "Weather" in the category of Hip-Life Song of the Year. After such a wild success, almost any single she released would be a hit to some extent, but Afia still makes every effort to each of the songs so that the result satisfies the audience and herself.
The latest hits from Sista Afia today can be called "Party" feat. Fameye and the newest hit “Sika” feat. Kweku Flick. In these latest hits, it is clear how skillfully Sista Afia and those who help her create songs have learned to combine many genres into one song, which is not similar to others and resembles all these genres. This is especially noticeable in the song "Sika", which simultaneously contains hip-hop, pop, and afrobeat genres, and creates a new inflammatory groove.
In general, despite the obstacles that life put in the way of Afia, she was able to take her destiny into her own hands and direct it to where her heart always lay - in music. To date, she is one of the most popular female artists in Ghana, and each year only improves her results. You can be absolutely sure that Sista Afia will not leave music and will continue to give its fans and people from all over the world inflammatory hits.