John Frog : From child soldier to South Sudan Afrobeat star

He’s manufacturing an worldwide notoriety and has collaborated with specialists from other African nations, counting Uganda’s Eddie Kenzo, and Bahati from Kenya. His most recent tune My Bed highlights Iyanya from Nigeria.

Frog is his genuine title. He was called Aguek, which suggests frog in Dinka, a dialect local to South Sudan, since he was a breech child, coming into the world feet-first.

Given that his mother gave birth to him in a inaccessible town with no healing center or specialist in sight, he was fortunate to outlive, as was his mother.

John Frog was born during the gracious war and his guardians were officers within the SPLA – the Sudan People’s Freedom Armed force. He himself was a child warrior, joining the armed force at around eight a long time ancient.

“They didn’t allow us a weapon however, until I was 14 – that’s when I was given a weapon,” he tells me.

“Every day, each week, there’s a battle, so we need to run within the timberland, within the water, so it was very intense for me.”

He offers that he didn’t go to school and picked up English “from the road”.

Frog says he continuously cherished music and indeed within the timberland he would tune in to conventional music.

It was when he got the opportunity to go to South Sudan’s capital, Juba and he met other youthful Africans that he begun making music himself.

“We didn’t have sufficient makers in Juba. The makers who are here are from Kenya and Uganda, so it was a bit difficult to know the kind of genre for South Sudanese music, so I chosen to do Afrobeats,” he says.

Frog says the musicians who make the foremost cash in South Sudan are the conventional ones.

“They laud individuals, they commend pioneers, laud individuals who have cash, so it’s the speediest way to form cash here.”

“But my point is to reach the more extensive gathering of people. Either this year or following year, I got to be among our brothers who are on top.”