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Edem – Wicked and Bad feat 4X4
Talented Ghanaian Rapper Edem, re affirms and displays his versatility.This time on a dance hall influenced Song ”Wickid and Bad” Feat Coded of 4×4
GHANA : AK Songtress Joins Patoranking
ak-songstress Female dancehall artiste, AK Songstress, has been in a studio session with Nigeria’s rising dancehall star, Patoranking, in Accra.
According to an official source from her management team, Paradise Entertainment, Patoranking was flown into the country last weekend by Paradise Entertainment after the MTV Music Awards, which was held in South Africa.
He reportedly left the country last Tuesday after the recording session.
The song, titled Rock Your Body, was produced by Danny Beatz. Rock Your Body is AK’s sixth single which will be on her upcoming debut album.
Currently signed on to Paradise Entertainment, AK Songstress who is relatively new on the dancehall front has performed at many events including 4Syte Music Video Awards and Ghana Meets Naija concert held last month.
Some of the songs she has previously released are Di Empress, Party, The Pace Setter and Funky Fresh.
GHANA : Stonebwoy urges women to be proud of who they are in new single
Ghanaian dancehall and Afropop artiste Livingstone Etse Satekla popularly known as Stonebwoy, has unveiled a new single Tuesday. The afro-dancehall single ‘More Gyal’ features Ashaiman-based DXD.
Stonebwoy, speaking in an interview with Hitz FM, explained that ‘More Gyal’ seeks to urge ladies to be proud of who they are irrespective of their body figure and looks.
“Basically, my return song is for all women, to make them feel good about their stature since some ladies often feel low-esteemed,” he said.
The 26-year-old talented songwriter and singer is releasing the single after a successful tour of some major cities in Europe, Austria and Italy.
He also worked on two projects – Ridal Riddim, and Pretty Cutty – which also featured some Jamaican stars including, Bennie Man, Busy Signal, and Elephant Man.
Stonebwoy has shot two videos ‘Watch Over Us’ and ‘Candy’ from his yet to be released album. The videos were shot in Austria and Italy respectively.
The yet-to-be titled album, according to him, will be released in November this year.
GHANA : Samini did not win any award
Samini It has emerged Samini did not win the award for BEST INTERNATIONAL ACT at the Black Canadians Awards held in Canada last weekend, contrary to an earlier report.
Samini’s team had relied on series of press publications on the subject, and came to the conclusion that their act had won.
However further checks reveal the award went to Trinidad and Tobagao’s Destra Garcia. The category also had Nigeria’s Waje, South Africa’s Lira and Khuli Chana as well as the Bajan female Soca act Alsion Hinds as contenders.
One, Julz of GhanaMixtapes, who was at the event and had relayed the information to the press, has since taken to twitter to apologize to Samini.
Samini has accepted his apology, saying “blunders do happen.” “Maybe i should have waited to see confirmation on the BCA site.”
The earlier statement we published from Samini’s camp in the morning read:
The African Dancehall King SAMINI, wins another International Award, this time; “BEST INTERNATIONAL ACT” at the Black Canadians Awards held on the 7th of June at the Queen Elizabeth Theatre in Toronto, Canada . He was in the same category with Allison Hinds, Khuli Chana Waje, Destra Garcia and others.
Award-winning Samini continues to show cause for why He believes in African Dancehall Music and making Ghana Proud, while the international community and brands keep recognising Him for such great strides in promoting Good African Dancehall music.
This is another feat in a week where Samini gears up to Launch His Lounge and Restaurant- “DanceStardom” and surely, it will be one big party/celebration this Friday.
Thanks to all fans and everyone who contributed to Samini winning this award. #GH #DanceStardom launches on June 13th with the mega celebration. HighGradeFamily……..#AkyeSaaaa
Sgd.
Anthony Pun Daning
Samini Music-HighGradeFamily
GHANA : Stonebwoy talks dancehall ….says Ambolley is right
Stonebwoy Dancehall icon Stonebwoy has added his voice to calls for uniqueness in Ghanaian Dancehall and Reggae music.
According to him, though what Ghanaian Dancehall musicians are doing now is pure Jamaican Dancehall, it will make sense to add a little bit of Ghanaian flavour to make it unique.
He was commenting on a recent statement from ace saxophonist, composer and rapper Gyedy Blay Ambolley that Ghanaian Dancehall artistes should do well to get a unique identity that would differentiate them from their Jamaican counterparts.
“We do Jamaican Dancehall and Reggae in Ghana a lot, so if we are doing Dancehall and Reggae, I don’t know how else you want it to sound differently from the regular Dancehall and Reggae music we have. But I believe that picking a point from what Ambolley said, inculcating our cultural stuff from Ghana into our Reggae and Dancehall music is an intelligent argument because you can hear me fuse Twi or Ewe in most of the songs that I do; that is trying to inculcate the Ghanaian element into them,” Stonebwoy, currently in Italy, told NEWS-ONE in a telephone interview.
He also stated that Ambolley, a veteran Ghanaian musician is apt in expressing his opinion on music.
“He may also have a reason for saying that. He cannot come out and say anything anyhow because I think he is an elderly person and an elderly musician in Ghana who also can add his opinion when certain things are going on about music.
“Leaving the highlife and hiplife genres, where he belongs, to make a comment about Reggae and Dancehall, I believe that it may not be all perfect or all true. He may have his reasons,” Stonebwoy added.
His statement conforms with what Ambolley called for: “The musicians, who are in that line of music, take more of their beats that come from Jamaica and add their voices to them. I think we need to have an identity. If our brothers from Jamaica who have created that form of music come down here and we are doing the same thing like them, it doesn’t really sit down with me. We need to add some part of our cultural aspect to the style that we’re using in the Reggae and Dancehall music.”
Stonebwoy got nominated in five categories – Dancehall Artiste of the Year, Artiste of the Year, Dancehall Song of the Year, Best Collaboration of the Year and Best Performer of the Year – for the 2014 BASS Awards.
He commended the organizers of the awards for focusing on awarding and rewarding artistes in the Reggae and Dancehall genres.
“For the primary idea of awarding Reggae and Dancehall artiste across Africa and Ghana, it is good because at the end of the day, it focuses on those particular genres to reward or award artistes, who contribute to Reggae and Dancehall in Ghana,” he said.
