{"id":53471,"date":"2018-09-20T09:10:01","date_gmt":"2018-09-20T09:10:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.com\/gh\/?p=53471"},"modified":"2018-09-20T03:42:33","modified_gmt":"2018-09-20T03:42:33","slug":"60998","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/gh\/60998\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Ghanaians’ Love For Dancehall Is Killing Highlife’ – Bisa Kdei"},"content":{"rendered":"

Renowned contemporary High-life artiste\u00a0Bisa Kdei has\u00a0 expressed great worries over\u00a0the degenerating nature of Ghana\u2019s High-life.<\/p>\n

Bisa believes that the massive love for dancehall genre by Ghanaians is what is killing the Highlife genre.<\/p>\n

High-life music genre is the heartbeat of Ghana music. Thus, Ghanaians gave birth to the this genre, therefore, there\u2019s the need for them to put strategic measures in place to protect and develop rapidly the indigenous genre.<\/p>\n

READ ALSO:https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/gh\/5678-023\/<\/a><\/p>\n

According to the ‘Mansa’ hitmker, Ghanaians love for foreign music genres especially Dancehall is a contributing factor to its gradual collapse.<\/p>\n

Bisa was peaking in an interview with\u00a0Emcee Bebe, host of Entertainment Xtra on Cape 93.3FM.<\/p>\n

\u201cHighlife is struggling as far as Ghanaians continue to give much attention to foreign genres especially Dancehall. <\/em><\/p>\n

We just have to believe in ourselves that Highlife is from us and push higher the indigenous music genre. One thing is that it\u2019s only Highlife that\u2019s putting Ghana out there,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0 he said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Besides, the \u201cBrother Brother\u201d crooner noticed that Ghanaian artistes who are doing High-life are more recognized in Europe than those who are representing other genres.<\/p>\n

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To him, you (Ghanaian artsites) can\u2019t sell Dancehall or Hip-Hop better than the Europeans because they\u2019re the originators.<\/p>\n

\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> Bisa Kdei quizzed.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Bisa is currently out with a new single ‘Biribi Nti’ off his Highlife Konnect album.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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