Entertainment of Friday, 5 May 2017
Source: Flex Newspaper
2017-05-05
Nicholas Omane Acheampong
Gospel music is the only genre which is solely into the propagation of the gospel. The words of a gospel music should bring repentance, deliverance and salvation to its listeners.
What differentiates a gospel musician from a secular artist is that, a secular artist unlike the gospel musician can switch genres and are free to do things that are directly opposite the teachings of a gospel musician and Christians in general. Over the years, some of these gospel artistes have started collaborating with some secular artistes. The likes of Herty Borngreat and Nacee who have recently featured Guru on his BOYS BOYS single are good examples to cite.
With our investigations, Flex newspaper can report that, the majority of Christians are not too happy about this new development, to them, doing a gospel song with a secular artist who drinks, smokes, clubs and flirts around without converting them is a taboo which shouldn’t be encouraged. With regards to this, Flex newspaper over the weekend knocked on the doors of renowned gospel musician Nicolas Omane Acheampong to share his views with us and he had this to say.
“We have a lot of the secular artist who make a lot of sense in their songs, when I started as a musician, the general term used in describing a singer was ‘MUSICIAN’ we never had a specific genre called gospel but within this sects of musicians, we had some who made biblical sense even though they were not gospel artistes and Jewel Ackah was one of them.
“For someone to be a secular artist does not necessarily mean he/she is a worldly person. It is weird how people read meanings into the word ‘SECULAR.’ Being a secular artiste is more of a universal singer who can sing about love, social issues, God and anything he/she thinks about but a gospel musician sings for only one reason, you can’t do a gospel music without talking or mentioning the name of your mentor Jesus Christ,” he said.
“Take me for instance, I sing to advise but in the end I make sure I leave listeners with a word from our saviour Jesus Christ and this is what all gospel musicians and Christians in general should know. If someone is a secular artist, he/she can also sing to advice and direct people and to even cause them to repent. Even though some have decided to do more of the profane songs, secular music as it stands has got nothing to do with profanity or sex,” he added.
