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I’m storming the entertainment stage on October 10th, 2010. This is to reveal the new release of my second musical effort, “Dark Horse From Romarong… a City of Kings.” The book accompanying this literary offering is “The Dark Road From Romarong.” In December 2009, I announced that I had completed the album at Thunder Dome Sounds in Ontario, Canada. JUNO Award winner, Jazz musician, and producer Eddie Bullen produced it. Earlier this year (2010), we also announced on my official website, www.freddywill.com. The new album is in the Krio language of Sierra Leone.
There are only two guest appearances on this album. They are Eddie Bullen, a Grenadian Canadian Jazz musician, and Carvin Winans, a Grammy Award winner from the States. Carvin has mentored me as I transitioned from the streets to the music and literary business. Working with him has been a blast, and as someone who grew up in a gospel family with his brothers Marvin and BeBe and his sister CeCe Winans, I have come to admire his wealth of experience.
Note: One English song on the Krio album “Save” features Carvin Winans. It is an emotionally charged, environmentally and socially conscious song that calls for a global intervention to address extreme health, socio-economic, and climate pandemics worldwide.
I wanted to create a record that would challenge me. And I didn’t want to feature too many people. I put a streetwise twist on this album to West African storytelling, which I think is needed in today’s art form. Then, I stretched my vocal range between rapping and singing on the hooks to prove that if I wanted to, I could sing. I noticed a few rappers singing hooks and wanted to see what I would sound like. However, I won’t be singing a lot on my future records.
“Romarong” is the former name of Sierra Leone. This album describes the lifestyle of someone of African heritage and is influenced by the Afro-American lifestyle. It engages listeners with glimpses into the life of a younger generation of African immigrants and second and third-generation Africans who were born and raised abroad and have become influenced by Western civilization without omitting core traditional African mythologies from their mentality.
Also, it is about a younger group of Africans who embrace the new world. The album makes the most advantageous references to several places where they may reside. I’ve set both “Dark Horse From Romarong… a City of Kings” & “The Dark Road From Romarong” for release in a deluxe package. Both are currently available for physical distribution and licensing in West Africa. For more information on how you can buy the exclusive rights to sell the books and the albums in your region, please email your inquiries to us.*
