Making playlists and debuting on music charts around the world is never achieved on a silver platter and therefore comes as great news for Nigerian born musician ,songwriter and record producer bigBen, whose debut single “Money” which features 2017 rapper of the year at the Vodafone Ghana Music Awards, M.anifest has managed to grab the attention of great music lovers. Well, that’s the exact mission of bigBen, a pioneer of the new music genre Afro Soul. With the world’s focus on music from Africa now more than ever yet bagging everything into one as ‘Afrobeats’, it’s only right that bigBen distinguishes himself and makes known the sound he seeks to front, Afro Soul. Born Benedict Uchenna Dike in Jos City, bigBen believes music serves as a means of expressing ones emotions; hence his music speaking to the sensibilities of all. With his engaging personality, he has bumptiously set out to make his mark in the arts industry through Afro soul music. The idea about Afro soul is to combine afro (Africa) music and merge it with soul music in the sense that it is calm but still groovy. bigBen is driving a wheel of change by impregnating into African’s an ideology about African music, which is one of his biggest goal; Changing African mentality towards music.