Gyedu-Blay Ambolley

It is emerging that, the Ghanaian music scene in recent times has been dominated by foreign music genres especially Dancehall music which is now by Shatta Wale, and Stonebwoy, among others. However, legendary Highlife musician, Gyedu-Blay Ambolley thinks it is wrong to fully adopt the genre and make it look as though it is a Ghanaian craft when it originated from another country. According to Ambolley, although the music genre is not Ghanaian, artistes can still fuse it into the indigenous Ghanaian highlife music. The “Simigwa-Do rapper”, while speaking in an interview with Kingdom FM said adopting a foreign style isn’t wrong but there…

Gyedu-Blay Ambolley has accused radio and TV presenters of being responsible for the seeming collapse of Highlife music. Speaking on Kingdom FM, Ambolley revealed that most of the presenters are young and have little idea of Highlife music, hence they do not make it a priority. He said the current crop of presenters and DJs would rather promote new genres instead of pushing highlife music on their various platforms. “When you visit most radio and TV stations today, you’ll realize most of the presenters are in their early 20s; this means the majority of them do not know much about Highlife…