{"id":11963,"date":"2018-01-26T11:06:54","date_gmt":"2018-01-26T11:06:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.com\/gh\/?p=11963"},"modified":"2018-01-26T11:06:54","modified_gmt":"2018-01-26T11:06:54","slug":"11963-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/gh\/11963-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Are You Better At Dancehall Than Those Who Created It?- Ambolley Queries Shatta Wale"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u00a0<\/span>Legendary Ghanaian highlife musician\u00a0Gyedu-Blay Ambolley has queried dancehall act Shatta Wale over his excessive acclamation of being the Dancehall King.<\/p>\n

According to him; Shatta Wale\u2019s assertion that he is the Dancehall King is a fallacy. This he claims is because he (Shatta Wale) cannot be better than those who created Dancehall.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou sitting down here calling yourself Dancehall King, we know that the Dancehall was created in Jamaica. So are you a better king than those that created it, you who is an imitator?,\u201d Queried Ambolley on 3 FM.<\/p>\n

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Gyedu-Blay Ambolley<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cBecause we are lot being real to ourselves. We don\u2019t have anything that is of our origin coming from our side of this world. We are doing too much of a copy than becoming creative. That is the problem we have,\u201d He added.<\/p>\n

Short Bio On Gyedu-Blay Ambolley<\/h3>\n

Gyedu-Blay Ambolley is a Ghanaian highlife musician, songwriter, producer, and composer. He’s the first musician from Ghana to formally incorporate rap forms into local highlife rhythms, Ambolley created the musical genre ‘Simigwa’.<\/p>\n

He is a multi-talented, International, Ghanaian Musician, celebrated his “Silver Jubilee” in music in 1998.<\/p>\n

In June 2015 Ambolley received a citation in the USA from the City Council of Philadelphia, read by Council woman ; Honorable Jannie Blackwell and Hon. Stanley J. Staughter in recognition of the musician\u2019s contributions to Ghanaian music in the USA.
\nGyedu-Blay Ambolley aka “Simigwa Do Man”\u00a0 was rather unknown outside of West Africa until Soundway Records included his seminal Simigwa-Do, which Ambolley released in 1973, on their first anthology, Ghana Soundz.<\/p>\n

He’s known for songs such as; Abrantie, Akoko Ba, Afrika Yie among others.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u00a0Legendary Ghanaian highlife musician\u00a0Gyedu-Blay Ambolley has queried dancehall act Shatta Wale over his excessive acclamation of being the Dancehall King. According to him; Shatta Wale\u2019s assertion that he is the Dancehall King is a fallacy. This he claims is because he (Shatta Wale) cannot be better than those who created Dancehall. \u201cYou sitting down here […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6036,"featured_media":12074,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[17050],"class_list":["post-11963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-gyedu-blay-ambolley-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/gh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11963","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/gh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/gh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/gh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6036"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/gh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11963"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/gh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11963\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12102,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/gh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11963\/revisions\/12102"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/gh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/gh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/gh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/gh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}