Dancehall can be done in Highlife style

It is emerging that, the Ghanaian music scene in recent times has been dominated by foreign music genres especially Dancehall music which is now spearheaded by two music giants, Shatta Wale and Stonebwoy.

But legendary Highlife musician, songwriter and composer, Gyedu-Blay Ambolley thinks it is wrong to fully adopt the genre and make it look as if it’s a Ghanaian thing when it is not.

According to Ambolley, though the music genre is not Ghanaian, those doing it can still fuse it into the indigenous Ghanaian highlife music so that they can own it.

The “Simigwa-Do rapper” while speaking in an interview with Kingdom FM however accepted the fact that music is dynamic hence adopting a foreign style wasn’t wrong but stressed there is the need for Ghanaians to make it their own.

 “We are growing and different things will happen therefore if we adopt Dancehall and play it in our own way, in our highlife format it will tell our brothers in Jamaica that we have our own style.” Ambolley told Fiifi Pratt on the show Afro Joint monitored by MyNewsGH.com.

“We must adopt it a play it in highlife. It will show that we also have something which can be shared with other parts of the world”, he added.