Bhimnation President m Stonebwoy has heaped praises on singer Efya for an electrifying performance on United Showbiz yesterday.
In a tweet sighted by oneplayafrica.com, the “Nominate” hitmaker described the “The One” hitmaker as a super talented singer. He also added that she’s an incredibly amazing performer.
He tweeted below:
Sarkodie, has on his social media handle expressed his desire to re take vocals on his hit song Saara featuring Efya.
Posting a short video of his performance of Saara with Efya at his Black love Virtual concert, the Rapper expressed his fondness for the extra vocals and freestyle Efya added to the performance. To him he wonders why that part was not included in the original song.
Sarkodie tweeted: “I listen to just this part almost everyday…wonder why we didn’t add this to the main song @EFYA_Nokturnal“
Also on his instagram story he said:
Although the song was released in 2019 and is a hit song, it seems he still would want to do more with the song. Hopefully the artist considers a remix of the song so he gets all the additions he wants.
Stream Saara here:
For the first time in a long time, Ghanaian singer, Efya has responded to critics who have been lambasting gospel artist, Celestinge Donkor, for featuring a secular artist like efya on a gospel song.
To Efya: “I do not see myself as a worldly person. God gave the talent and I can sing in any genre of music I want.”
Although concise, the message was precise and well unequivocally delivered.
Gospel artists featuring secular artists has never been anything new in the music space around the world, Tasha Cobbs featured hiphop rapper Nikki Minaj on her song Getting Ready, Michelle Williams also featured Beyonce on Say Yes. The list can go on and on. This is why artist from two genres combining to do something on a record does not deserve all the backlash it got.
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Doreen Avio of Myjoyonline.com writes about her experience as the host of Ghanaian songstress Adina’s debut album called Araba. Adina who is known for hits like Killing Me softly featuring Kuami Eugene, SIKA, Makoma held her album listening and it was MCed by Dorren Avio, co-host of Cruise Control on Hitz 103.9fm.
Doreen Writes:
It was a night of good music as Afro-Pop musician Adina Thembi held her 2-hour album listening session at the Ibis Styles Hotel at Airport City in Accra.
Adina took industry personalities, bloggers, entertainment critics, media, and loved ones down memory lane with discussions centered on “Araba”, her maiden album.
Personalities in attendance included President of the Creative Arts Council, Mark Okraku Mantey, Andy Dosty, Merqury Quaye, Jerry Justice all from Multimedia, Mr. Logic, Kwame B, Radio Legend George Brun, CEO of Max International Larry Lowe, and a host of others.
The award-winning artist also took the audience through the songs on the album explaining her songwriting processes, studio sessions, and gave an exclusive performance of “WHY” by Adina from the yet to be released album.
Speaking on the creativity poured to make “Araba” a reality, Adina revealed that the album was about her life and journey as an artist.
“It was a beautiful experience for me. Richie and I go way back so we have that rapport and everyone else on the project is family as well, so, it wasn’t hectic at all,” she said.
The “Makoma” hitmaker described her maiden album as a beautiful blend of emotions and melodies, easy on the ears, and a body of work for everyone.
“You know that sort of package that everyone can walk away with their bit, I can’t wait for everyone to hear it and I pray it travels far and wide,” she said.
The singer stated that she put that experience into a song called “Nyedzin” which is featured on the album.
Teary Adina encouraged everyone to stay strong no matter how tough things get adding things will get better.
“I was saying to my manager that I feel like this song to anybody that is going through anything is a testament. I am a testament that, no matter how tough it gets you can actually come out of that crazy situation it is.”
“I mean look at me now, I’m not doing so bad for myself and I’m doing pretty well, looking at all that crazy stories and we here today,” she said.
The 10 track album was produced by Richie Mensah of Lynx Entertainment with KiDi the label’s signee being the only artiste featured on the album.
“Araba” is set to be released on the October 30, 2020.
Source: Myjoyonline.com
The activities associated with the governance of a country or area, especially the debate between parties having power is what is called Politics not killing of innocent protesters.
Nigeria has been in the news so much these past few days to weeks as citizens exercise their democratic civil right against the government formed police SARS group.
The protests in the country has gone on with a lot of celebrities getting involve but these few days have been pretty bad. Videos on social media shows that a certain group of armed Military have been sent to ‘attack’ innocent protesters on the street.
Nigeria’s situation has become unbearable as a lot of stars around the world have called upon the government to end these attacks on innocent.
Celebrities from Ghana have come out to show support to Nigeria. The likes of EL who has stated that he will not vote and wIsh there is another way to do away with Politicians for the foreseeable future.
Sarkodie tweeted also saying he is sorry for Nigeria. Earlier on Sarkodie was bashed for his radio silence on the whole End Sars thing but this time around he has spoken.
Ghanaian rapper M.anifest could not keep mute on the incidents happening in Nigeria. The Gamble hit maker called on AU and Ecowas to stop been silent.
Gospel Singer Cwesi Oteng also from Ghana sent some love Nigeria’s way. The sensational gospel artist was very concerned about our people.
Music duo from Ghana, R2Bees also sent some love to Nigeria. The stated that they are with Nigeria in these Dark times.
Songstress EFYA who has a lot of hits with Nigerian artistes including Wizkid, made it clear that she is with Nigeria too.
My Hunny hit maker NanaYaa, also sent love from her USA home to the people of Nigeria.
In music a body of work is highly respected by music lovers and industry because it shows the state and weight of the artists putting it out.
For the last past few years, a lot of talents have released some amazing body of work from Ghana and we want to highlight a few. This week we introduce you to 5 female albums released within the years to check out.
Though some of the albums listed are a bit old, the songs on there are golden and deserves some attention.
These albums from songstress such as Sista Afia, NanaYaa, MzVee, Efya and Wendy Shay gained some pretty good hype upon release.
Below are our weekly top select playlist from these hard working female artistes in Ghana.
The four times Ghana music awards best female vocalist of the year released her genesis album in 2016. The singer got the world to hear her music with this album.
Genesis was so good it has hit songs like Jorley featuring Sarkodie, LIFE, One of your own featuring Bisa Kdei, Gimgam too much, just to list a few.
In 2019 Wendy shay released her 10 track body of work called: ‘Shay on You”. The album had so many hit songs it became arguably the best album of the year 2019.
Songs like Uber Driver, Psalm 35, Masakra, Shay On You, All for You, Bed Room Commando, The Boy is mine, Astalavista, just to list a few were huge records not just in Ghana but Africa as a whole.
Under her old label and management, Lynx Entertainment, MzVee released her album titled Daavi. Released in 2017, Daavi had hits such as Rewind featuring Kuami Eugene, Summa Dis Summa DatFeel Alright (feat. Ki Di) Nobody featuring Black Prophet, Daavi, just to list a few.
In 2018 was the rise of leader of the SlayNation in Ghana Sista Afia. The Jeje hit maker released her body of work in 2018 called: Queen Solomon.
Queen Solomon was a huge success with many music fans getting to hear the voice dexterity of the female songstress.
Sista Afia, who is an AfroBeat Queen had 15 solid songs on the album with features from fellow artistes such as Shatta Wale, Medikal, Flowking Stone, Kinaata, Afezi Perry and Kelvynboy.
NanaYaa who is known in real life as NanaYaa Thomas is the daughter of hi-life legend and Golden voice of Africa Pat Thomas. The singer took Ghana by storm with her hit song My Hunny and Ego Bee.
In 2018 the singer released a body of work that birthed her new name Manye 1. The album had features from Epixode, Zeal of VVIP, EDEM, just to list a few.
Manye 1 album by Nanayaa had hit singles such as my Hunny, Woman Power, Wonkoa, Fama me, “Ohemaa’, Condom, and a lot more.
Africa cum to Ghana’s most decorated rapper Sarkodie known in real life as Michael Owusu Addo held a writing camp in Ghana. The camp saw the likes of Nigerian star Zlatan, Rex on the beat, Nana Fofie together with other producers in attendance.
The writing camp also brought unity between artists in Ghana as almost every artist of our time was at this camp to either record, help create music or collaborate with another artist.
So what is a writing camp?
For those of you who don’t know what songwriting camp is, well, it’s a gathering of producers and top liners in a pre-selected location for the purpose of cross pollenating creativity and writing. A camp can last for a few days or a week or longer.
If the above definition for a writing camp is anything to go by then we will say it is the music form of a corporate retreat. These camps in the past are often organized by labels who want an album written for an artist.
At Sarkodie’s writing camp, we saw a lot of artists recording with different artist and the whole music mood created was something the industry needed to boost Mojoe of musicians especially in this Covid 19 era.
Music and musicians were hugely hit with this pandemic as many had to return performance booking fees to agents due to the pandemic so a camp of this nature could not have come at a better time for our African artists and producers.
Let us share a few of the things you might have missed from the camp.
The ladies were not left out. At the writing camp we saw our female stars for the first time bonding. Sefa, Efya, Mzvee, others had their best time at this writing camp. 7 out of 10 of the time this things happen without our female stars present so to see them been involved made us happy.
The Camp brought together some of the continent’s best producers such as Rex on the beat, kill beatz just to list a few. The co-production power behind some of the songs we will hear when these records come out will obviously blow our minds.
Writing skills improvement. We saw from the pictures and short videos how Sarkodie and other artists were always with every artist before they recorded their music. We saw Sarkodie with the ladies where he spent time in listening to them before they recorded. We hoping that this will influence our music in a great way as we go back to been lyrically strong again.
Teaching of branding and Imaging as an artist. For every artist that had the chance to spend some time with Sarkodie, we are expecting that they would have learnt a thing or two about how to make a brand solid. All the videos and pictures released from the camp were properly cut and treated for the glam. Some times the music cannot speak but the images will do a lot of talking.
Freedom: we saw how Sarkodie for the first was dancing a lot. A video of himself and King Promise got social media buzzing – that means there was freedom of creation at the camp. Artists had lot of freedom to do what they want to do and hopefully it reflects on the music.
Congratulations to Sarkodie on this writing camp and to all artists that showed up; this is what Africa needs if we are going to take the world on.
We need to go together rather than go as individuals.
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