We can’t preserve the high life if we don’t understand it

Entertainment on Friday, September 11, 2020

Source: e.TV Ghana

2020-09-11

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Exceptional Ghanaian highlife singer, songwriter and producer Akwaboah Jr has observed that Ghanaians do not have a deep understanding of the indigenous genre of highlife and we cannot preserve it if we do not understand it.

He told Foster Romanus in an interview on eTV Ghana’s Late Nite Celebrity Show that, “Some are doing Sekyi but they don’t even know what they’re doing,” and pointed to Kelvynboy’s ‘My baby’ as an example of Sekyi highlife. .

Asked if this is the fault of the music producers or the artists, he confessed that it is one more problem on the part of the producers because they are the ones who need to better understand highlife so that they can apply that knowledge in composition and production. his instrumentals of high life.

“In Ghana, we have Kwame Yeboah, me, my dad, Victor. They are people you can turn to. Even with my songs, I don’t write them alone. When I’m done with my build, I call my guys; the guitarist, the bassist, the drummer and another keyboardist.

We all share ideas, so it is not just one person who produces the ideas. By the time we’re done, I would have spent between 4,000 and 5,000 cedis; but most of the producers that we have, they only play one or two keys on the keyboard and the rest is their mind, ‘he said.

According to Akwaboah, artists must know the different styles of highlife music so that they can choose for themselves what they want and understand what they are doing. Having this knowledge will in turn help preserve our indigenous music from the high life of Ghana.