Veteran Ghanaian Highlife musician, Gyedu-Blay Ambolley, has stated that Ghana could not sustain the azonto music genre because the originators were note trained musicians.
According to him, azonto was a very nice genre of music that could have been sustained and exported properly if the originators of azonto music were trained musicians.
“The people who came up with azonto were not trained musicians, so, it became really shallow instead of being really full. If you see how the white people were dancing to azonto, you can tell it was a really good export so why couldn’t we keep exporting it? Because there was a problem”, he said.
Gyedu-Blay Ambolley said this in an interview on the Weekend Rush hosted by Kokonsa Kester on Y107.9FM.
He noted that highlife music on the other hand has the solid basics because it was originated by trained musicians, therefore Ghanaians need to focus on uplifting the genre and exporting it more as it is “a music of unification”.
“We need to start thinking together to see how we can export our music because Ghana’s music is enjoyed everywhere and even by children. Highlife is a type of music that brings everybody to the floor so we need to think about how we can export that,” he said.
By: Maureen Dedei Quaye
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