{"id":53386,"date":"2018-09-19T08:15:15","date_gmt":"2018-09-19T08:15:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.com\/gh\/?p=53386"},"modified":"2018-09-19T00:05:16","modified_gmt":"2018-09-19T00:05:16","slug":"bisa-kdei-reveals-the-thing-that-killed-highlife-as-a-genre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/gh\/bisa-kdei-reveals-the-thing-that-killed-highlife-as-a-genre\/","title":{"rendered":"Bisa Kdei Reveals The Thing That Killed Highlife As A Genre"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bisa talks about state of highlife in Ghana.<\/p>\n<p>Highlife musician,\u00a0Bisa Kdei reveals the thing that is killing highlife in Ghana. He stated that this is due to the embrace of dancehall.<\/p>\n<p>According to the hitmaker, we should concentrate on and boosting what we have.<\/p>\n<h4>Bisa Kdei talks about highlife music and its popularity<\/h4>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201cHighlife is struggling as far as Ghanaians continue to give much attention to foreign genres especially Dancehall.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cWe just have to believe in ourselves that Highlife is from us and push higher the indigenous music genre\u2026it\u2019s only Highlife that\u2019s putting Ghana out there.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cThe Europeans want to listen to indigenous music and instruments comparably to Dancehall among others if you\u2019re a Ghanaian artiste. How can a Ghanaian artiste sell Dancehall music better than Jamaicans?\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bisa talks about state of highlife in Ghana. 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