On Wednesday, 2nd June 2021, Dancehall musician, Shatta Wale revealed one of his major concerns pertaining to the Ghana music industry and what needs to be done to project our talents to the world.
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In his State of the Industry Address, Shatta Wale urged that Ghanaian artistes need to identify a genre that can be attributed to all music works from Ghana.
Just as Jamaica is well known for Dancehall, Nigeria well known for Afrobeat, and Americans are known for Hippop, Shatta Wale revealed that he was asked in one of his meetings the kind of music Ghanaians do.
According to him, he only presented himself as a Dancehall artiste from Ghana but was quizzed about the kind of music Ghanaians are well known for.
It is at the back of this that the Legendary highlife singer, Kwabena Kwabena has described Shatta Wale as ignorant because he needs to revise his notes to know what Ghanaian musicians are known for.
Speaking to Abeiku Santana on Okay FM, Kwabena Kwabena stated that Ghanaians have always been known for Highlife and has been so since the beginning of music in Ghana.
He said that most highlife musicians receive invitations from outside the country to go and play highlife music, so therefore, Ghana has a unique genre which is Highlife.
He further stated that it is okay for Ghanaian musicians to adapt to genres from other countries but must always take note that Highlife has been the original genre of Ghana.
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