SHARON MBI – A Message of Gratitude “Love Song”


STAR BOULEVARD With Beryl-Ann Achoh



The Love of God strengthens ones’attitude to live a fulfilling lifestyle. Sharon Mbi started singing at a young age and has been a worship leader since at the age of 16. But this never motivated her into following the path of becoming a minister of worship and a gospel recording artist.  In the years of 2017 to 2019 Sharon faced a series of challenges that brought her close to God where she felt the God’s love towards her. Only then did Sharon hid to the calling of becoming a minister of worship and a gospel recording artist. As someone who struggles with depression anxiety, Sharon sings to soothe those who find themselves in the same situations. Her ministration comes from a place of deep surrender and brokenness. As a testimony to her community Sharon meets with Star Boulevard to tell her journey of discovery, revival and freedom, giving us the insights on her love story with God and her love for gospel songs.

Congratulations on the release of your new album ‘7 Songs from Heaven’. Can you give us a little background about yourself?

Thank you.  I am a wife and a mother of three.  A registered Psychiatric Nurse by profession and I am a Cameroonian by birth from the region called Bafia. I moved to the United States of America in my late teens and I presently reside in California with my husband and our three children.

What drew you into music?

My first influence into music came from my mother. At an early age she would deliberately teach me songs and explain the meaning behind their lyrics. I am come from a heritage of musical background. I am the last born of 7 children with nearly every member of my family having some sort of an interest in music be it singing or playing a musical instrument.The family I grew up with loved music, but this did not speak to me until I began to work as a psychiatric nurse then I discovered that there was something special about the songs God had given me. I would sing these songs to the patients I took care of and they would immediately become calm and experience the same peace that I experienced from my songs.

How would you describe the music that you create and what is the creating process like?

I call my music Afro- western music to soothe the oppressed soul. I am inspired by the heavy drum beats and rhythms of my African heritage but also drawn to the metallic sounds of the electric guitar, violins and saxophones of the western culture (as you can tell from my first single “Love Song” in which I feature an electric guitar solo). My music seeks to combine the two worlds in a soothing melodic way or in a dance rhythmical way (again which one would experience when listening to “Love Song”). You will notice that on every song of the album there is a prominent instrument. For example. “Worship Song” which is still to be released, combines violin and drum sounds with a focus on the violin. “Joy Song” features the Saxophone predominantly. I believe that each instrument carries a special and specific anointing to drive away certain demonic spirits from the atmosphere in/or around the listener. I always get a revelation from God as to what instrument and why He (God) wants to feature in a song.

Where do you get your inspiration from?

From God. I get most of my songs in my dreams. I wake up singing them. Others I get when I am in what I call my secret place, my early morning prayer devotion time or midnight devotion time. The rest of them are birthed as I struggle free of demonic oppression. Let me explain this - so, I would have had hours of a panic attack episode/depression heaviness lethargy etc (after being assaulted by a demonic spirit in my dreams the night before) or what I call “a spirit spouse attack”. In an attempt to end the attack with the enemy in warfare prayer and scripture, the words and the lyrics of a song would just start to pour out of my mouth and as the words and melodies come in, the oppression would stop. As I sing the song repeatedly, I would find that I am back to myself. This was the case with my 2nd single which I will be releasing on June 30th called. JOY SONG.

Why the title ‘7 Songs from Heaven’? Has it got a certain meaning to you? Also tell us about the songs in the album, especially ‘LOVE SONG’.

YES! I wanted to call my first album that because as I explained before, so far, I have never deliberately written a song. I believe the songs are given to me by God. I get them with their melodies and most of their lyrics already assigned to them.  However, the finished product incorporates some fine tuning done by the producers I work with as well as my husband lol. He is very particular about not letting my flesh spill into the lyrics. Love Song is one of the songs I got in my dreams. Love song is a song meant to establish Isaiah 54:5 which states that born-again Christians are married to or in covenant with our creator Jehovah God and he is our spouse. The lyrics of “Love Song” allows the Christian to worship God from the place of his bride which sets the stage for deliverance from any other demonic spirits that may be claiming a covenant with them.

From being a psychiatrist nurse, a working mother who supported the family to becoming a minister of worship and a gospel recording artist. How did you manage joggling between these three – family, ministry of worship and gospel recording artist?

Lol! Lots of late nights! Releasing a single and working on the release of an album is but the tip of the iceberg of my journey so far. Most of the work was done in moulding me into becoming a worship minister. That was the hardest part of my journey and I believe it took God a lot of years to achieve. That said I have always been conscious of the fact that it is God, my husband, my children, worship ministry then gospel recording artist. I am very conscious of the fact that if I do not keep these things in the right order they will crash. I am very deliberate about what I call my “Secret place” quiet prayer time and bible study with God as well as fasting at least once a week. This is how I cope and keep myself showing up and being present in all the roles that have been assigned to me.

Did you ever feel like giving up at any time? If so, how did you deal with that?

Yes, I have felt like giving up many times. It is not easy to be a wife and a mother of 3 and have to accept bookings, run to the studio, manage a ministry, edit videos, maintain social media etc. The most difficult part was fighting the demons of oppression and fear which would not let me get up from bed and take a shower let alone get on a stage to sing. Despite the opposition, God has always surrounded me with my loving and supportive husband and people care and encourage me and pray for me on my difficult days. Then there is the fact that my first son Aiden is my pianist, and this really makes things so much easier for me. He is only 8 years old and has been playing for me since he was 5. This one thing reminds me that all what I am doing has been God’s plan all along. He is so passionate about playing for me and going on gigs with me. He cries when I must be accompanied by another pianist. This keeps me motivated because I remember that I am also doing what I do for him. Another thing that keeps me going is that I have a small team that I am able to keep employed in Cameroon. I have them on a monthly salary and I am able to sustain their salaries from the income that I make from my bookings and CD sales. This keeps me motivated knowing that a group of people are depending on me for their monthly income pushes me to get up and do what I have to do to keep things going.  Lastly, I get so many testimonies of how people are being blessed and delivered from my music.

If you are to advice someone who is going through similar situations or even worst, what would you tell them to continue carrying on with a positive front.

You must stay in the word of God!  Read the bible like it is food. Create a secret place, a time when you can be alone with God and fight! Do not let anything take over your faculties and your destiny. God has given you authority in Luke 10:19. Be strong, be encouraged you can do it! Listen to my music it will help you on the dark days when you feel like giving up.

What can you tell someone that wish to follow in your footsteps?

Become a worshiper first before you seek to go into worship ministry and/or release an album. Worship God alone in your secret place cultivate that first or God will drag you back to that if you try to start a ministry or become a gospel recording artist before you have graduated from the secret place. You cannot skip that step. The platforms you stand on to sing will reject you and push you back to the secret place, even the studios and producers will reject you. The music you release will go nowhere. When your secret place is strong God himself will announce you. He is waiting desperately to announce you. When God releases you to start, brand yourself! brand yourself! And brand yourself! Work it out with excellence. Remember you have all you need to start; just start and you will grow from where you are.


Where can we watch or buy your music.

On all streaming media, YouTube@Sharon Mbi, Facebook@SharonMbipage, Instagram@SharonMbi. Just type. You can make purchases on CD Baby or buy directly by contacting me via my website - www.sharonbisha.com or directly through my social media messengers. A lot of people have listened to my song and called me to say “I just want to bless you” and that have given me more the asking price on CDBaby (which is 1 dollar per single) via my cashapp@Sharon Mbi. I also have a Patreon account https://www.patreon.com/home  where you can pledge to support my ministry and you will get behind the scenes footage of the making of the songs and videos and VIP releases as well as be able to make contributions and suggestions to and for my ministry. So it's like a partnership with my ministry if you do sign up for the VIP level.

Thank you, Sharon Mbi, this is a very inspiring interview and as Sharon mentioned we always must seek God to prepare us before we attempt to start up as a gospel recording artist, and do not forget to Brand It, Brand It, Brand It!
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