Freddy Will

Wilfred Kanu Jr., known as Freddy Will or sometimes Tha Sandmann, born August 11, 1977, in Freetown, is a Sierra Leonean- born American businessman, author, music producer, and recording artist. He launched his music career by mixing hip-hop with jazz, calypso, r&b, classical music, and afrobeat. He writes books in history, philosophy, biography, diary, poetry, personal development, and fiction 2. He is best known for his singles "City Boy" (2008), "Providence feat. Carvin Winans" (2009), "Endurance" (2010), "2 Passports" (2014), and "Girl from Happy Hill" (2017). In Cochin, India, Freddy Will recorded and performed the song "Natural Light," a soundtrack to the Malayalam movie "Pori Veyil." (2022). He has collaborated with Juno Award winners, Canadian jazz musicians, Grammy Award winners, and Nigerian, Kenyan, and Sierra Leonean afrobeat singers. Freddy Will is the first Sierra Leonean to be nominated for a Grammy award and a musician or author to be awarded four "limited edition" Sierra Leone postage stamps. Many publications have credited him as the first Sierra Leonean musician who is also a published author. Between 2009 and 2014, he authored three books with accompanying studio albums. After moving to Europe from 2016 to 2020, he wrote and published seven volumes of a series of books called "The Sandmann's Journal" and released several studio albums with afrobeat songs.