Talal Fatal

Talal Fatal is a veteran singer, songwriter, arranger, producer and CEO of Metro TV. He has been around the Ghanaian music industry for close to twenty years.

Talal is still going strong and recently relaunched his musical career with his Eboni album dubbed ‘Money & Fame’ in 2005.

Born in 1963, Talal started playing major roles in teen pop-chain and music bands before attempting to try afro pop music in Ghana. While growing up he joined music bands and embraced teen-pop chains, this was somewhere in the mid 70s. Talal’s passion and love for music went on the high side after he met ex – radio presenter, Tommy Annan Forson who boosted up his confidence.

Refusing to be forgotten again after his second album wasn’t all that successful, Talal resurfaced with a third album titled ‘Forgive and Forget’. which was a hit throughout West Africa, he was later signed on by Sunny Ade of Sigma Disc. Of Nigeria.

After coming out with his hit song ‘Forgive & Forget’, Talal went on to call his own shots with Pat Thomas and other Ghanaian highlife legends.

Between 1985 and 1992 Talal performed in Ghana and abroad with a host of international artistes like Osibisa, Alpha Blondy, Jimmy Cliff and Jermaine Jackson, and was one of Ghana’s representatives at P-MAN Awards Night in Lagos in 1992.

After a couple of albums, Talal has successfully positioned himself to run his own show and has formed the Eboni Band with Eric Antonio and Ashitey De Love as permanent members.

His remarkable accomplishments include winning the ECRAG Discovery of the Year award (1986) owing to his three hot albums, ‘Its Not Over’, ‘Where Are You’ and ‘Forgive and Forget’.