Music in Cape Coast is growing but ….

• Posted on January 27, 2015
• by Nana Kwesi Coomson
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I stare at music in Central Region, particularly Cape Coast with a feeling of awe. The ‘Showbizers’ in the Metropolis in their own way have developed their music industry to an enviable acme. The annual award ceremony for the hardworking and ‘deserving’ Artistes alone is enough to make me want to clap for them every second.

After last year’s awards ceremony which was organized on December 26, 2014, there have been scads of attacks on the organizers and winners. Reading the reasons for the attacks, it leaves one to wonder how people could be so bitter and publicly jealous. The truth is, winners always accept that an award ceremony went well and losers have criticisms; this is even seen at MTV and BET awards so I can pardon them for that.

Waking up every morning and seeing an update from a Cape Coast Artiste online, I am so eager to read to the very last word. If it is not an update attacking ‘haters,’ it would be an update to explain why he did what he did. This has even gone overboard to an unbelievable extent of some Artistes physically assaulting fellow Artistes, Bloggers and other personalities in the industry.

The unhealthy competition in the Metropolis would destroy what people from afar are admiring. Human beings are naturally competitive but their energies should be channeled to competing with Artistes from other parts of the country. For now, no Cape Coast Artiste has a national hit song and if they are nonchalant about it then they are wasting their time and talent.

They are undeniably producing quality videos and competitive songs which can easily be on rotation on radio stations in the country’s capital and other big cities in the country but their attention are so shifted to their own ‘blood’ musicians.

Oguaafo nfr3 yie ….. It is time to make some of us who wrote ‘myself’ in Primary School with “I come from Cape Coast in the Central Region” proud. Others are watching as well and if you cannot manage stardom at that level, what would you do if 25 million Ghanaians start celebrating you?

I am not advising that you sleek over what is happening in the Metropolis but it is giving some of us the impression that, you are not serious and ready to be national stars but rather comfortable with the Metropolitan hit songs you are enjoying.

Author: Nana Kwesi Coomson (www.233times.net)