{"id":58720,"date":"2019-01-11T08:40:41","date_gmt":"2019-01-11T08:40:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.com\/gh\/?p=58720"},"modified":"2019-01-10T20:07:05","modified_gmt":"2019-01-10T20:07:05","slug":"how-my-mums-death-influenced-by-biggest-hit-mansa-bisa-kdei-reveals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/gh\/how-my-mums-death-influenced-by-biggest-hit-mansa-bisa-kdei-reveals\/","title":{"rendered":"My Mum\u2019s Death Influenced By Biggest Hit \u2018 Mansa\u2019 \u2013 Bisa Kdei Reveals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Prolific Highlife musician\u00a0Bisa Kdei has revealed how \u2018Mansa\u2019 became his biggest hit record released in 2015.<\/p>\n<p>Disclosing how the song became a widely played song on radio in 2015, Kdei communicated<\/p>\n<p>that his late mother, Josephine Bruce\u2019s death contributed to making the \u2018Mansa\u2019 song a big hit in Ghana.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking with Okyeame Quophie on the Emklan Tv Show, Bisa revealed that on the eve of<\/p>\n<p>releasing the video for the \u2018Mansa\u2019 single, he was called on the phone to be told his mother<\/p>\n<p>was taken ill and has been rushed to Cocoa Clinic in North Kaneshie, Accra where she died on Wednesday, August 19.<\/p>\n<p>READ ALSO:<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/gh\/i-run-to-bullet-when-i-am-criticized-wendy-shay\/\">https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/gh\/i-run-to-bullet-when-i-am-criticized-wendy-shay\/<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201cOn the 19th August, I was on radio promoting \u2018Mansa\u2019 and was also getting ready to release the video. I was about to tweet and post the video of \u2018Mansa\u2019 song on social media when I had a call that my mum was really ill but I still went ahead to post the video. My mum passed on that same day. It was both joy and pain when the song was everywhere.\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>According to Bisa Kdei, his mum\u2019s death and his accident won him a public sympathy making<\/p>\n<p>music lovers jam to his \u2018Mansa\u2019 song more.<\/p>\n<p>He further disclosed that the song got him a lot of shows outside Ghana.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201cIt got to a time people complained that I have neglected my own people (Ghanaians) and I\u2019m connecting with other African countries. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The song gave me a lot of recognitions\u00a0where I had to perform it at Liberia, Cote d\u2019Ivoire, Gabon and other countries. Mansa has been my biggest hit song.\u201d<\/em> Bisa Kdei revealed.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h3>Watch Video for &#8216;Mansa&#8217; below:<\/h3>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"BIsa Kdei - Mansa (Official Video)\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ZI_uIRU5EOc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prolific Highlife musician\u00a0Bisa Kdei has revealed how \u2018Mansa\u2019 became his biggest hit record released in 2015. Disclosing how the song became a widely played song on radio in 2015, Kdei communicated that his late mother, Josephine Bruce\u2019s death contributed to making the \u2018Mansa\u2019 song a big hit in Ghana. Speaking with Okyeame Quophie on the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6036,"featured_media":53224,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[7841],"class_list":["post-58720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-bisa-kdei-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/gh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58720","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=58720"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/gh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58720\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58722,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/gh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58720\/revisions\/58722"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/gh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/gh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/gh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/gh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}