GhanaWeb feature by Isaac Dadzie

While the confetti was still being vacuumed off the floors of the Grand Arena, the big winner of the night, Black Sherif, made one thing clear: the high is over, and it's back to work.

Just 48 hours after a historic night at the 27th Telecel Ghana Music Awards, where he swept five awards, including Artiste of the Year and Album of the Year for ‘Iron Boy’, Black Sherif was already signalling his next move.

While many artistes would ‘take a break to cool off’, Blacko, while speaking to TV3 Ghana on May 11, revealed that he returned to work immediately after his TGMA wins, and declared that winning the Artiste of the Year award for a third time is "100 percent possible."

Seeing as his two previous projects have bagged him the penultimate award twice, a hint that he is already working on something new should send a chill down the spine of every other act in Ghana's music industry.

At just under 25 years old, Black Sherif has now amassed 13 TGMA awards, becoming the youngest artiste in the history of the awards scheme to achieve the feat before turning 25.

His 2026 haul alone, Artiste of the Year, Songwriter of the Year, Album of the Year, Best Hip Hop Song of the Year and Best Afropop Song of the Year might be a career-defining night for most artistes.


But for Blacko, it appears to be a checkpoint, not a destination.

The ‘Iron Boy’ album that drove the sweep itself was a proof of his long-term vision.

Speaking after receiving the Album of the Year award, Black Sherif revealed the project was three years in the making, with his team showing up every day and every night, travelling the world to shoot music videos, recording in studios, and sleeping in them.

If Black Sherif wins the Artiste of the Year award again in the future, he would become the first artiste in Ghana Music Awards history to win it three times, something no one in the scheme's history has ever reached, not Sarkodie, not Stonebwoy, not VIP.

So what actually comes next?

A new album appears imminent. But while we wait, a few more singles were spliced along the year. Along with one or two collaborations.

Internationally, his collaboration with Fireboy DML on ‘So It Goes’ points to a push into Nigeria's market and beyond.

His headline December show, ‘ZaamaDisco’, is also widely anticipated in the next few months.

At 24, with two AOTY titles, 13 awards, and a hunger that doesn't pause for celebrations, the more accurate question isn't what comes next for Black Sherif; it's whether Ghana's music industry is ready for what's already on the way.

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