Truth-hurts: January 28, 2007

Sunday, January 28, 2007

LISTEN UP!!!

Hi! To the football lovers out there, Nigeria will be playing Ghana on the 7th of february. If you want to go watch it, make sure you get your tickets early, but for people who are couch potatoes like me and can't be bothered to go watch it, stick to your TV. Its still live! The only difference is that you are sitting on your sitting room couch, watching it alone (or with some of ur peeps) while you could be out there actually cheering with other football lovers, watching all the players LIVE (i mean actually being there), watching the players mess up and also play their heart out and you also get to see the sad looks on the loosing teams side and shout "ha ha ha!" lol!!!! You know what, i think im actually encouraging you to go buy a ticket and go watch it. I think its a friendly match or the African Cup of Nations 2008 qualifiers. I'm not sure. I need to find out.
Who do you guyz think will win???? Vote now!................................... The results are in!!!!!!!!!! 100% think that the Nigerians will win! Ha!! NAIJA 4 LIFE!!!!!

"GLO WITH PRIDE"

STYLPLUS AND THE GHANAIAN SINGER KWABENA KWABENA

Hey everyone! Hope you are having a good weekend so far. I decided that i want to talk about some african entertainers today. I mean singers. I selected singers from Naija and our neighbouring country Ghana. When i named this article "Glo With Pride", i was actually referring to the naija entertainers. The naija singers are actually doing quite well for themselves i have to admit. 2face for example, is well known for his song "African Queen" which he won an MTV award for. Apart from that, he realeased great songs like "Ole" and "Nfang Mbano" (don't think i spelt it correctly but you guyz get the song i'm trying to tell you about rite?) which he sang the remix with Beenie Man and Reggie.

There is also D'banj. I love his song "Tongolo" but he has other ones like "Soko"(spelling wrong again i think), Paul Play Dairo's "Angel Of My Life" which i think he is best known for (I never heard of the guy till he did that song, so yeah) and also Sunny Neji's "Oruka". I promised myself that i will play it on the day i get married. I can go on for a while mentioning loads of good naija artists like StylPlus (can't forget them) and their "Imagine that" which everyone i've met so far loves by the way. Even my non-naija freinds that i've made listen to the song, luv it. But like i said at the beginning of this post, i want to talk about Ghanaian singers as well. It is a true fact that Ghanaians are well known in Africa for their talent in Hair Dressing (they keep winning the Golden Scissors Award like everytime), but as for singing, im not quite sure.

The main problem with the song of Ghanaian artists is the fact that they never sing in English so we never understand what they are talking about. Im trying to point out a fact that i'm sure many people have noticed and i think this is the reason why they haven't been able to go international. Don't get me wrong. There are very good Ghanaian singers like Ofori Amponsah, VIP, Kwabena Kwabena and Praye. I liked the tune of Ofori's song "Otologe", but that was it. Cos there was no english bit in the song, i never understood a thing he was singing about. I think this puts people off listening to their songs. In naija, we have different languages, but the naija singers always sing in either their language and english or pidgin english so at least we have an idea about what the singer is going on about.

If the Ghanaian singers tackle this, then they will have a wider audience listening to their songs, but if they don't, Ghanaians will forever be the only people listening to Ghanaian music.