Award winning actor and musician Falz is on the cover of the latest Guardian Life issue.
Falz has been on tour for the better half of this year and his latest track debuted on top of the charts. Falz sat down to speak to Guardian Life about how he started his career and the difficulties he came across along the way.
Excerpts and exclusive photos below:
On his interest in entertainment: ‘We were gaining quite some ground in school. We had a few groupies…there was a time we used to steal jokes from Night Of A Thousand Laughs. We used to watch it at home and come to school to crack people up. It was the way we cracked the joke that made it funny.’
On how he developed his persona: ‘Initially it started off as just making fun of people and it was just something that stuck and I found that I had developed a complete alter ego.’
On infusing his comedic trademark broken English into music: ‘ I don’t want to make a song just because, I try to preach and teach with my music. I think it’s about making music with substance…Most of the time I already have an idea and then I hear the beat. I then try to put the concept on the beat; if it flows then I can work with it. Sometimes, it is the other way around when the beat sounds so nice and I have to work with it.’
On how he deals with the fame: ‘ It gets very hectic and stressful, sometimes you just want to be by yourself and have a quiet day but it’s not possible. You might run into fans and you’re not having a good day, but they need to take pictures and they need to hear you talk. If you are passionate about something or if you enjoy doing something you won’t get tired of it’
