Gyedu-Blay Ambolley, a legendary highlife musician, has said, the recent trend of music dominating the airwaves, serves as a potential threat to the values of Ghanaians.
The downward surge of highlife music, has become a worrying phenomenon, as new music artistes, see it as an unattractive venture and rather prefer more in Dancehall, RnB music, among others.
According to the music icon, the recent trend of music, does not carry messages that would impact the lives of the younger generation contrary to the olden days, where music served
as an inspiration to the youth
"In the olden days, every song you would hear teaches you about the dos and donts in life but today's music trend is talking about things that don't impact lives especially the youth,'' he told GNA Entertainment.
He added, "every country has her music, so why have we left ours and playing dancehall and they are being hailed, which is totally unfortunate. Most Ghanaians don't know the power of highlife.
"Highlife brings us together us a people irrespective of tribal or political sentiment and we certainly cannot live highlife behind."
He urged young musicians, to use their platform, to trigger a change in the society and communicate positive vibes to inspire Ghanaians.
Source: GNA
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pleace tell us any censitive song you ever produce in your life as musitian
MY POINT EXACTLY! TELL IT AS IT IS. I WONDER WHICH OF HIS SONGS MADE SENSE THT HE BOASTS ABOUT?
He who comes for equity must come with a clean hand. Did your song "BESIA NO AYAASE BIRIBI SH3 H)" make sense to Ghanaians? Music is dynamic so allow the young generation to determine their genre of song they love.
Gone are the good old days of sensible highlife music from the musicians mentioned above, especially Nana Amadu and the African brothers band-i remember aku sika, kwabena amoah, yen ba pa kwadwo, ofie nwansena, article 204, the laws of 3moadoma kingdom. wow!
Great comment. You said it all.
AMBOLLEY I BEG TO DIFFER. MAJORITY OF YOUR SONGS ACTUALLYDO NOT HAVE POSITIVE IMPACT ON SOCIETY, HOWEVER, THEY ARE ENTERTAINING. BUT MUSIC FROM THE CAMPS OF THE GREATS LIKE NANA KWAME AMPADU, THE ODWONTOFUOHENE, DR K GYASI, ONE MAN 1000 KWABENA KONADU, THE YAMOAS, THE AKWABOAS,THE PAT THOMAS, THE CITY BOYS BAND, THE KAIKAKU # 1 & 2, C K MANN, MR AAA, AMAKYE DEDE, NANA TUFOUR AND THE LIKES WERE THE ONES THAT IMPACTED SOCIETY AND STILL DOES. HOWEVER, CONTEMPORARY HILIFE LEGENDS LIKE GREAT DADDY LUMBA ALSO ROCKS!