BLACK MESSIAH PICKS UP FROM MAC TONTO


Black Messiah, born Messiah AGuze was one of the young poet singers of the late '90’s debuting
with a series of popular live performances with the Kete Warrior in UK,
Europe and America. He first adopted the approach to do
reggae-ragga music when he was in primary school and later met a couple
of young energetic reggae boys by name Vibration boys at a reggae show.
In the late 90s, a friend took Black Messiah to see the
legendary Mac Tontoh (a great international afro music icon and a
member of Osibisa Band whom he had heard of many years) who handpicked
him to play Afro Jazz music with him.He had intensive indoor
training and internal touring almost throughout Ghana with Mac Tontoh
and later become a young member of the Kete Warriors.Black
Messiah presented his first big show at the Pan African Festival
(PANAFEST), the first African Home and Abroad Emancipation Day in 2000.
They (Kete Warriors) played alongside with Sharon Karts from South
Africa and the world acclaimed OSIBISA. In 2000, Kete Warriors
began the Mac Tontoh Project UK Tour 2000 which was managed and funded
by Amanas Music records, and local representatives like the North-Folk
Council in the UK that ended up in USA (they toured almost all the
states).  ?It was a nice and historic one for me because it was
like a trail for me on the Mac Tontoh Project UK,? he said. During
the tour, he attended workshops with their UK partners that he met
there. He also found out that musicians there took their music serious.
They toured many theatres and had radio and TV interviews on BBC and
World Net. Returning from the historic and booming tour, he
changed from the Ghanaian-Nigerian highlife he did to modern reggae
hiplife music.Black Messiah?s poetic nature led to the
acquisition of the name - "Black Messiah" (a name given to him by a
Jamaican woman who claimed he was very conscious when it comes to
matters of consciousness).A well-heard voice, Black Messiah
thinks it is time to follow up with his first album to be release on both african
market and the international titled 'at long last'. His 18 tracks album is set to go places and would be
ranked as Black Messiah?s masterpiece. He describes the album as a
fusion of Afro jazz beats reggea/dancehall with live instrumentation. Black
Messiah recorded with artistes from the jahta yard records and one nigerian star tony harmony,
commander messiah and many others. Reliable information reaching me is that the album is
already on a quest to cross over to the international market; it also
has songs like Bglen Bglen ewe dancehall (spoilt brat), high grade,jah time ,so me mu, me do fo,my life
with tony harmony (conscious message), No
His string of performances over the last few years abroad has been unprecedented in the afro jazz
and Reggae music world. Messiah thinks musicians should introduce revolutionary lyrics into songs for
the sake of the youths in our society to enlighten them on moral
matters. ?We artistes stand as teachers, people listen to our
songs and take advice from us, so our songs should always be positive
and finally producers should do good listening so that our music can
cross the borders?, he added.Black Messiah as a young reggae
artiste is modest in his achievements and gives credit and respect to
his long time ?old man?, Mac Tontoh, who he cites as, 'been helpful in
his life",also my rasta family jahta yard records,big up jahta dreadluv in haiti ,big up jahtaman,
big up kartune ,slim souljah,rasgav family in the states avital Rashmany, his producer scott Jacoby
of the eusonia records in New. he has played some recent shows in togo and benin .blak messiah
is making it big with a leading song in togo entitled; me no friend dem.
Black could be emailed at mail to:messiahaguze@yahoo.com"messiahaguze@yahoo.com or phoned
on 233 542600214/ check me out on facebook and my space. Dossier of Black Messiah