Friction

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ABOUT FRICTION:Friction is born as Musah Haruna in the most well-known ghetto of Ghana´s capital city Accra. In that ghetto, called Mamobi Nima, Friction started to have dreams about becoming a big musician.Since he was little, Friction was listening to records his father played and soon he composed his own music in a local language called ´Hausa´. When he was 12 years old, he started to perform during ghetto parties and in battles. Although Friction knew it was going to be difficult to make it as a musician- especially as a boy from the ghetto-, he never had any doubts that it was going to happen. The only thing he had to do was to keep on working.That is why he ended playing soccer on high level, so he could totally focus on the music. He was planning to set up a group, so he asked one of his friends to join him. He called his group ´V.I.P.´, Vision in Progress. With his friend, Friction managed to have a lot of performances during festivals and in clubs. More and more people started to know the group. When his friend had to leave Ghana to finish his education in the US, Friction looked for new people to form V.I.P with.He asked four guys he knew from battles to join him. Friction´s dog Chicago also became an official member of the group. With his group, Friction wanted to do one thing; to record an album which would make his ghetto famous all over Ghana.In 1997 V.I.P gave a performance during a street carnival. It was then that a television-presenter called Black Koffi and a radio-presenter called Michael Smith discovered the group. Black Koffi became their manager and Michael Smith gave them a contract by the record label ´Precise Music´.In 1998 they dropped their first album ´Bibibaao´. They were already famous in Accra, but this album gave them nationwide fame. They became the most popular hiplife-group in Ghana. In 2000 they released their second album ´Ye de Aba´. This album was even more succesfull than the first one. In that same year, Friction featured in a song ´Stop AIDS, Love Life´, among many other Ghanaian artists.The song was part of a nationwide AIDS awareness campaign. Although his group V.I.P. was very succesful, Friction felt it was time for him to develop himself as an individual artist. After the second album he left the group. In 2002 he released his first solo album ´Big Trouble´. Many people were disappointment when he left V.I.P., but when they hear his solo album, they knew Friction was up to bigger, greater things. He had shows all over West-Africa; in Nigeria, Togo, Burkina Faso. Friction also started with his own foundation ´Hipfactory´. With this organisation Friction wanted to keep the ghetto youth away from the streets.He organised soccer-tournaments and gave the children the chance to come to a studio to record music together. Since Friction was young he had plans to build his own studio and to start his own record label. In the years after he dropped his album, he focussed on this plan. In 2006 he opened his studio´Hipfactory Recording Studio´ and launched his own record label ´Hipfactory Records´ in Ghana.In that same year, Friction was accepted to the Fontys Rockacademie, a music school in Holland. Before he started his education in september 2006, he first recorded his second solo album ´Auntie Serwa´ and he shot the videoclip for the first single, also called ´Auntie Serwa´. This song is a feature with a well-known Ghanaian reggae artist ´Black Prophet´. Friction describes his style as ´ghetto blues´, a mix of hiphop, soul, hiplife, blues and reggae. Since september 2006 Friction is a student of the Fontys Rokacademie.Although Friction has already achieved so much, he is not planning to stop. His plan is to let the whole world know him and his ´ghetto blues´.
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