{"id":423789,"date":"2017-09-30T13:27:10","date_gmt":"2017-09-30T13:27:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2017\/09\/30\/paulina-oduro-advises-young-artists-to-stop-copying-from-nigerians\/"},"modified":"2017-09-30T13:27:10","modified_gmt":"2017-09-30T13:27:10","slug":"paulina-oduro-advises-young-artists-to-stop-copying-from-nigerians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/09\/30\/paulina-oduro-advises-young-artists-to-stop-copying-from-nigerians\/","title":{"rendered":"Paulina Oduro advises young artists to stop copying from Nigerians"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"article-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/85726950.295.jpg\" alt=\"Oduro Paulina\" title=\"Oduro Paulina\" width=\"295\" height=\"197\" \/><span class=\"image_caption\"><span>Paulina Oduro cited Kofi Kinaata as the only young artist who employs creativity in his songs<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"noPrint\">\n<div id=\"537626303\" style=\"width:300;height:250;margin:0;padding:0\">\n\t\t  <noscript><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"b2ad7fa7fd\" name=\"b2ad7fa7fd\" src=\"http:\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/afr?auid=537626303&amp;cb=149916385179598\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\"><a href=\"\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/rc?cs=b2ad7fa7fd&amp;cb=149916385179598\">&#13;<br \/>\n\t\t  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/1506778030_637_ai\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/iframe><\/noscript>\n\t\t<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"clear:right\"> Highlife musician Paulina Oduro has called on young artists to be creative with their music and stop copying from other countries.<\/p>\n<p>Comparing today\u2019s artistes with that of her generation, the\u00a0Akwaakwa\u00a0singer said \u201cMy generation was always about creation\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She further cited High Grade Family artist Kofi Kinaata as the only young artist who has brought something different to the Ghanaian music industry.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on the MydMorning Radio Show on YFM, the talent show judge expressed disappointment at Ghanaian musicians copying from Nigerians.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am tired of us copying them; Fela and the rest of the guys used to come here to listen to our creation\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a style=\"display:none\" rel=\"follow\" href=\"http:\/\/megatheme.ir\/\" title=\"\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633\">\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paulina Oduro cited Kofi Kinaata as the only young artist who employs creativity in his songs &#13; Highlife musician Paulina Oduro has called on young artists to be creative with their music and stop copying from other countries. Comparing today\u2019s artistes with that of her generation, the\u00a0Akwaakwa\u00a0singer said \u201cMy generation was always about creation\u201d She [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-423789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-entertainment"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Paulina Oduro advises young artists to stop copying from Nigerians - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/09\/30\/paulina-oduro-advises-young-artists-to-stop-copying-from-nigerians\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Paulina Oduro advises young artists to stop copying from Nigerians - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Paulina Oduro cited Kofi Kinaata as the only young artist who employs creativity in his songs &#013; Highlife musician Paulina Oduro has called on young artists to be creative with their music and stop copying from other countries. 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