Love of a Poet reviews The Sound Of The Broken Wand

Love of a Poet reviews The Sound Of The Broken Wand

About Love of a Poet I just wanted to share this wonderful review from Love of a Poet and Teresa James on Facebook about my book, The Sound Of The Broken Wand. Love of a Poet’s review It reads: “When I read Poetry I like to embrace the author’s...
Tiki Black Wins Outstanding Legacy Award

Tiki Black Wins Outstanding Legacy Award

The year 2022 proves to be a personal best for artist Tiki Black as she publishes a well-received companion book for her 2022 acclaimed second album, “The Sound of the Broken Wand” and wins the Akademia 2022 Outstanding Legacy Award. UK/USA (July 7, 2022) –...
Radioairplay.com reviews new single The Unscripted

Radioairplay.com reviews new single The Unscripted

Huge thanks to Andre from Radioairplay.com for his lovely words about my first single The Unscripted. “With its unique vocal performance, beautifully written lyrics, and elegant melodic concepts, ‘The Unscripted’ is a lovingly crafted piece of songwriting...
Happy New Year 2021!

Happy New Year 2021!

I hope 2021 is just like this picture, a spot of light in the dark. A new year, 2021 not being the least, forces the mind to assess its life, or at least to review its past year. I looked and saw the tank in which I swam. The waters surrounding me take me back and...
Sounding The Sirens – Arts Council Project

Sounding The Sirens – Arts Council Project

The Sounding The Sirens project is the brain child of DJ, singer-songwriter and music agent Geli Berg. It  funded by focuses on our female associate performers – namely three of our female singer-songwriters:  . The Arts Council COVID Emergency Funding funds the...
Jul, Aug, Sep and Oct 2019 shows

Jul, Aug, Sep and Oct 2019 shows

I am looking forward to a series of upcoming shows. I’m kicking off with a gig at the East Academy right here in my hometown of Manchester. The couple of concerts I’ll do there are for Sell Your Music Online. They take place in July and August 2019. You...
Live on the Medicine show moose mobile with Rob Ellen

Live on the Medicine show moose mobile with Rob Ellen

It was a pleasure to finally physically meet Rob Ellen and play for him and his listeners on the Medicine show Moose mobile. What a great afternoon! The weather was most appropriate, and the sound of the rain outside made the whole atmosphere cosy and special. Between...
BBC Stoke The Wildcard The language of Music 23 April 2019

BBC Stoke The Wildcard The language of Music 23 April 2019

BBC Radio Stoke On Trent The Wildcard The language of Music 23 April 2019 The privilege to partake in music, especially for the hour it takes to share it with an audience via BBC Stoke on Trent, can only be embraced. So once more, I get to speak with you the language...
BBC The Wildcard – The Language of Music 30/01/2019

BBC The Wildcard – The Language of Music 30/01/2019

It was really lovely to hear from the BBC. They has been seeking for presenters for a new show. I submitted show samples, got a couple of interviews.Before I knew it, I receive a proposal from the BBC to consider doing a radio show with them. More specifically, BBC...
Modern Ghana’s look at 7 things about Tiki Black

Modern Ghana’s look at 7 things about Tiki Black

Modern Ghana Magazine has just published an opinion piece entitled 7 Things About Tiki Black. The title refers to Tiki as The Singer Whose Songs Suit All Generation. The piece is penned by Joel Savage, a Ghanaian-Belgian journalist and author. The accredited...
Season’s Greetings and Best wishes for the Year 2019

Season’s Greetings and Best wishes for the Year 2019

My warmest wishes to you and your loved ones For the Holiday Season and the Year 2019. 2019 is as yet unscripted. It is up to us to make it the best that it can be. So my wish for you is that you to leave in 2018 those things that held you back from your full, amazing...
Interview on All Business Media FM

Interview on All Business Media FM

Invited on All Business Media FM to introduce what it is that I do. The artist always itch at the idea that they are also a business. However, this was my opportunity to reconcile creativity and entrepreneurship under the umbrella of my story. 8 minutes is all that...
Performing at Cabaret for Freedom, special Maya Angelou

Performing at Cabaret for Freedom, special Maya Angelou

Maya Angelou. Wouldn’t she be proud, this giant on whose shoulders many of us have reverentially climbed. Wouldn’t she be proud that her Cabaret of Freedom has been so inspirationally brought through to the next generations? It is there as the platform for...
Inspirational Daniel Henney

Inspirational Daniel Henney

I have to admit this. After watching Shangai Call more times than I care to admit and Seducing Mr Perfect even more times if that were possible, there are no ways around it: I am in love with Daniel Henney. Ok, he IS good and athletic looking. But there is more to it...
We love Manchester: Emergency Fund

We love Manchester: Emergency Fund

I spent more days than I would have expected wondering about what happened to Manchester on the 22nd of May 2017. I felt sick and disoriented. I could not understand. I could not imagine me being so affected by something that happened a mile from me and did not affect...
Leonard Cohen – That’s how the light gets in…

Leonard Cohen – That’s how the light gets in…

Ring the bells that still can ring Forget your perfect offering There’s a crack in everything That’s how the light gets in Leonard Cohen RIP 🌹 A plume without its equal has left a blank page… A crack in his imperfect offering of melodic...
Live at Dodo

Live at Dodo

Date 29 Jul 2016 Time 20:00 – 23:00 Location DODO (Inhaber: Rolf Jungklaus) Once known as 7 Stufen, Dodo is a little gem in Berlin for intimate music experience from live artists, new and established, local and foreign and it was a pleasure to be welcomed by...
Silence No More featured in The soundtrack of a new film

Silence No More featured in The soundtrack of a new film

My song Silence No More only got and get itself selected to be included in a poignant short film entitled Silence (written $ILENC€) by multi-award-winning filmmaker Glad Amog Lemra. The new film is in white and black and has no dialogue. That emphasises the music and...
2016: New year wishes?

2016: New year wishes?

As 2016 begins, we lose some giants (David Bowie) but somehow their legacy continues to show us a silver lining. With that renewed strength, I look forward to the the exciting great ventures that start to unfold. – I am writing my second album and in a not long...
To a happy 2016 and positively unforgettable year!

To a happy 2016 and positively unforgettable year!

Happy 2016! To a wonderful (yes full of unexplored beauty!), healthy (with all the motivation to clear our bodies, mind and environment from toxic spoilers), prosperous (yes, I mean bountifulness in your finances), enriching (filled with self-fulfilling...
The Netherlands – THANK YOU!

The Netherlands – THANK YOU!

I live in a big city: Manchester. I love Manchester because its grey is the blank canvas for self-expression, its wetness is the fertiliser of creativity. But I had forgotten the quality of warmth and hospitality one can only find in smaller towns, unspoilt by the...

Led astray by chips?

Anyone who has had Leni’s chips would understand. Whether it is with her beef stew, her falafel, her mustard sauce or any of her fabulous meals, you just have to have more, and so we did. Stronger from our possibly generalised Netherlands’ chips...
Radio KC, making my week

Radio KC, making my week

Radio Kaos Caribou (RKC) has been making my week, playing my music and tweeting some lovely words about it. What a lovely bunch of people! They have been playing every single one of my songs on their programs and promoting the music so that I have been getting lovely...
TV Interview on The Samy Priso Show

TV Interview on The Samy Priso Show

My first TV interview was a daunting experience. I realised something I had put in the back of my mind for a while: the fact that I always felt safe in the background, making things work from behind the scenes. This whole process of coming out of the Black, coming out...
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