Much gratitude goes to the team and all that came to support the bisa kdei show in amsterdam. Special thanks and salute goes to #Bits events for their awesone initiative in organising the #bisa kdei show to empower the youth in the community. Also to our young female dj, dj ricks who did justice to … Read more
Dear 2017, I hope you will bring much laughter and happiness to our world in these 12 months ahead of us. You are the only channel through which we can live and without you we will not exist so please, let each and every passing day in you be filled with sunshine and rainbow and … Read more
Dear 2017, I hope you will bring much laughter and happiness to our world in these 12 months ahead of us. You are the only channel through which we can live and without you we will not exist so please, let each and every passing day in you be filled with sunshine and rainbow and … Read more
MANASSEH’S FOLDER: Mahama isn’t the problem. Our hypocrisy is! ast weekend, President John Dramani Mahama stirred the dangerous beehive of ethnicity. And he got himself deadly verbal stings from across the country. Even people who have no right to open their mouths in this matter had their bite. It reminded me of Dr. Paa Bobo’s … Read more
WE NEED TO CELEBRATE OUR CULTURAL AMBASSADORS AND HEROES OF HIGHLIFE AND PALM-WINE MUSIC Yet, after all is said and done, we cannot but commend President Mahama highly for extending material and financial assistance to veterans of the entertainment industry, men and women who promoted Ghanaian culture across Africa and the rest of the world. … Read more
GHANA’S AFRO-R&B STAR QWECI AND THE QUESTION OF MUSICAL ARTICULATION The technical aspects of musical production in Ghana are not up to international standards, so too are serious, glaring technical deficits in some of the native languages some singers and musicians use for their music. We are here referring to native fluency or proficiency in … Read more
RELIGION AND FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION, OF THOUGHT Notwithstanding the preceding contentions in Part 3, it bears pointing out lest we overlook it, that, Prophet Daniel Asamoah-Larbi, Akosua Agyapong’s husband’s sanctimonious claim that Dark Suburb are “idol worshippers” and “demonic” and that the band courts evil influences are out of place, a mere talent-killing pontification. After … Read more
“At a quick glance, one could assume that the term ‘highlife’ reflects a single, coherent musical style (i.e., ‘highlife music’) that gained great currency throughout West Africa in the 1950s and 1960s and, more recently, in the ever-expanding world music branch of the commercial industry… “In actuality, highlife is a much more slippery term. Since … Read more
Samuel Owusu appeared on the Ghanaian music scene with a string of instant smash hits from “Abusua Kyiri Ka,” “Mempe Me Ho Asem,” “Kokosakyi,” “Asem Beba Dabi,” “Yenka Wo Ntie No” to “Mo Bekae Me.” We may broadly classify the repertoire of his music genre as burgher-highlife. Yet, although the music for his classic songs … Read more
Ronald Kweku Dei Appiah who is popularly known as Bisa Kdei was born on the 19th of march 1986, Hails from Laterh , a town on the Akuapem Ridge in the Easten Region of Ghana , He’s the third son out of eight kids of his parents. Bisa Kdei began his education at Christian Valley … Read more
For our #TBT HIPLIFE feature for this week, we present you one of the first collaboration between a hiplife artiste and a highlife musician. EX Doe and Dr. Paa Bobo’s Comfort ushered in an era where hiplife and high-life musicians were very successful in bridging the generation gap between lovers of old school highlife (palm … Read more