Legendary Ghanaian Musician Gyedu Blay Ambolley who has substantial knowledge in music seems extremely worried about the path the Ghanaian music industry is being pushed unto by so called musicians as well as the organizers of the prestigious Ghana Music Awards.
From his recent interview with XFM, you can quickly deduct that, indeed the man understands and lives music-Ghana music.
Speaking on Ghana music, he noted the false representation certain individuals who are supposed to be mere ‘Rappers’ in association with the Ghanaian media are peddling, calling the latter ‘Musicians’ when in fact they are mere ‘Rappers’.
Before coming to the above point, he mentioned that the organizers of Ghana Music Awards should let the activities and craft of the annual award scheme embrace the various genres of Ghanaian music, especially the traditional music.
‘If you say Ghana Music Awards it means that you would have to bring the traditional musicians also in there. You have to bring the Folklores in there as well as those in the North. You would have to bring them all in’ he said.
He added that, the award scheme is more of a hiplife award scheme than a Ghanaian award scheme since it alienates the true Ghanaian highlife musicians to the background whiles championing the cause of the ‘hiplifers’.
This is how he puts it; ‘If you look at that genre I think that they would have to call it Hiplife Music Awards because everything that we do is basically more of Hiplife than what we have here as highlife or traditional form of music’
I think he makes a lot of sense in his deduction! What about you?
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He’s right!
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hello big bro ypu are too right.hiplife what is hiplife its a diluted highlife its not pure,highlife is pure,i dont know where these so called musicians are taking us to ,they cant sing,cant play instruments or they do is copy the americans and call it ghana music,my foot.especially the recording engineers who keep calling their names on record it makes the whole album sound demo
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so rite they really need to learn how to perform with a live band. If they want to copy the americans they should copy well. For example Jay Z, who is a rapper always perform with his band and even sometimes uses a whole orchestra and never lip sync on stage. If you do a song and you are not able to perform it with a band then don’t call yourself an artist or musician better find yourself another name.
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