The new album of English singer-songwriter Ed Sheeran will feature a Twi track titled "Bibia Be Ye Yie," as confirmed by the artist himself on Jan. 6 on The Radio 1 Breakfast Show with Scott Mills. The album will reportedly have a deluxe version that will feature four other songs on top of the tracks that will be released on March 3.
Sheeran recently revealed that he had written two Irish traditional songs for his upcoming third album, even naming one of them "Galway Girl," Irish Central reported. After a long hiatus, the artist officially made his comeback last week when he released two new songs from his album. However, it is the tracks about Galway and his home place in Wexford that his Irish fans are itching to hear upon its full release in March.
Teaming up with Belfast-based band Beoga for "Galway Girl," Sheeran described the tunes on his album as "full-on Irish traditional songs." He also teased that the song would be "the song" for the Irish and that he expects it to explode in Ireland.
The 24-year-old Grammy winner was recently in Ghana has yet to disclose the details of his new album. However, he suggested in a recent interview that the most fun experience he had in making the album was writing a song in Twi and being in the studio with someone like Fuse. During his guesting at The Radio 1 Breakfast Show, he said, "The best experience was I wrote a song in Twi, which is the Ghanaian dialect, and I wrote that in Ghana at Fuse's house with all of his mates."
While in Ghana, Sheeran got knocked off in a "little box" for almost six hours after trying out a drink mixed with weed, Starr FM Online reported. He shared that the local drink was called "shocker," which was a mix of vodka, pineapple juice, coconut juice and rum. It was only after drinking loads of the liquor that he learned that they had soaked an ounce of weed in it.
Sheeran is set to shoot a video for one of the songs in Ireland, where he would hire Irish dancers to be featured in the video. Wach Sheeran perform "Castle on the Hill" live here: