{"id":40816,"date":"2020-03-13T15:00:43","date_gmt":"2020-03-13T14:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/sister-deborah-makes-her-debut-with-the-african-mermaid\/"},"modified":"2020-04-27T03:32:39","modified_gmt":"2020-04-27T02:32:39","slug":"sister-deborah-makes-her-debut-with-the-african-mermaid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/sister-deborah-makes-her-debut-with-the-african-mermaid\/","title":{"rendered":"Sister Deborah makes her debut with The African Mermaid"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4 class=\"pam-featured-content\" ><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-38379 pam-featured-content\"  src=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/1ea58816-sister-deborah.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1400\" height=\"867\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/1ea58816-sister-deborah.jpg 1400w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/1ea58816-sister-deborah-759x470.jpg 759w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/1ea58816-sister-deborah-1010x625.jpg 1010w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/1ea58816-sister-deborah-661x409.jpg 661w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/1ea58816-sister-deborah-465x288.jpg 465w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/1ea58816-sister-deborah-375x232.jpg 375w\" sizes=\"(min-width:1010px) 759px,100vw\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/h4>\n<h4>The 7-track project is in her own words a &#8220;splashing sonic adventure&#8221;; a qualification that perfectly suits the colorful afropop delivered by the Ghanaian singer.<\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Born Deborah Vanessa Owusu-Bonsu, &#8220;Sister Derby&#8221; is a well-known personality in Ghana with a long history in the music industry. Television show host, model, graphic artist and environmentalist, it&#8217;s the first time she releases a complete EP. <em>The African Mermaid<\/em> was a gamble to be taken, and to win it, the singer surrounded herself with the best producers (Kuvie, King Stunn, Nxwrth, Jeri Beatz, 2AA), and featuring (Kofi Mole, Efya, Lapili, Y&#8217;Akoto&#8230;). The themes covered will delight a large audience: time and money (Time be Moni), relationships (Somebody), a new dance (Atupa)&#8230; and the protection of the environment! Indeed, the singer has been fighting for several months against plastic in Ghana and in the track &#8220;African Mermaid&#8221;, she sadly pictures a Mami Wata buried in plastic bags.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/C5wvrTAbzTU\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The particularity of the singer comes from the almost aquatic freshness of her productions, pop and light. \u201cAfrican Mermaid\u201d perfectly applies to the modern musical standards, but is still a personal and original EP that will thrill mainstream audiences and critics. Sister Deborah\u2019s flow and tone, somewhere between comic and haughty, also make her mark. Not surprising for a family in which humor runs: she is the sister of Wanlov the Kubulor from the iconic Fokn Bois duo.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>The African Mermaid<\/em>,\u00a0out\u00a0<a style=\"color: #333333;\" href=\"https:\/\/album.link\/gh\/i\/1501799994\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">now<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h5><span style=\"color: #333333;\">Read next:\u00a0<a style=\"color: #333333;\" href=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/fokn-bois-interview\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Fokn Bois, fake rascals<\/a><\/span><\/h5>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-38380\" src=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/65f31d88-the-african-mermaid.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"618\" height=\"610\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/65f31d88-the-african-mermaid.jpg 618w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/65f31d88-the-african-mermaid-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/65f31d88-the-african-mermaid-465x459.jpg 465w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/65f31d88-the-african-mermaid-375x370.jpg 375w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/65f31d88-the-african-mermaid-85x85.jpg 85w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/65f31d88-the-african-mermaid-73x73.jpg 73w\" sizes=\"(min-width:1010px) 759px,100vw\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 7-track project is in her own words a &#8220;splashing sonic adventure&#8221;; a qualification that perfectly suits the colorful afropop delivered by the Ghanaian singer. Born Deborah Vanessa Owusu-Bonsu, &#8220;Sister Derby&#8221; is a well-known personality [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":48,"featured_media":38379,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3944],"tags":[],"location":[7994],"yst_prominent_words":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40816"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/48"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40816"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40816\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40816"},{"taxonomy":"location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/location?post=40816"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=40816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}