A decade ago, a young man sporting a few inches of dreadlocks, burst onto the local music scene. He rode on the back of a controversially-laced, sexually explicit single aptly couched in the female name ‘Linda’ to make it big at first attempt. Linda became an instant hit, and enjoyed a heavy nationwide rotation. The song was even the subject of a huge ‘suitability’ debate at the 2004 Ghana Music Awards. Despite the controversy, he won two awards; Hiplife Artist of the Year and New Hiplife Artist of the Year. It gave him the much needed major breakthrough, and mainstream pass. Now known as Samini, and then commonly referred to as Batman, ‘Linda’ was the first single off his debut album ‘Dankwansere’ (Batman). The album also had the song ‘Gyae Shie’, another controversial song. Born Emmanuel Andrews Samini on December 22, 1981 in Accra, to Mr G.A Samini and Theresa Samini, he would later go on to become everybody’s darling boy. In the early years of his ...