{"id":605008,"date":"2019-04-04T13:46:15","date_gmt":"2019-04-04T13:46:15","guid":{"rendered":"<br><div>\n\n        <div class=\"td-post-featured-image\"><figure><img width=\"640\" height=\"362\" class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.ghana-mma.com\/2019\/04\/gyedu-blay-ambulley.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"gyedu-blay ambulley\" data-pagespeed-url-hash=\"580"},"modified":"2019-04-04T13:46:15","modified_gmt":"2019-04-04T13:46:15","slug":"blame-media-for-fading-out-ghanas-heritage-gyedu-blay-ambolley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/04\/04\/blame-media-for-fading-out-ghanas-heritage-gyedu-blay-ambolley\/","title":{"rendered":"Blame media for fading out Ghana\u2019s heritage \u2013 Gyedu Blay Ambolley"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\">\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"362\" class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.ghanamma.com\/2019\/04\/gyedu-blay-ambulley.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"gyedu-blay ambulley\" data-pagespeed-url-hash=\"580603005\" onload=\"pagespeed.CriticalImages.checkImageForCriticality(this);\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gyedu-Blay Ambolley, veteran musician <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>Veteran highlife musician, Gyedu-Blay Ambolley has accused the media of having a hand in deteriorating Ghana\u2019s musical heritage [Highlife].<\/p>\n<p>The highlife singer blamed the media for encouraging, especially, the young artistes to totally deviate from the foundation on which the entire Ghana music industry was built.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe younger ones are doing dancehall and things like that and the media is hailing them. The radio stations, all of them are playing dancehall and things like that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>SEE THIS: <\/strong><strong>Patapaa arrives in Ghana; declines media interview after Europe tour<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Mr Ambolley lamented that the neglect of the highlife genre by new crop of acts is a big problem that should be looked into to create hope of salvaging its significance to not only the music industry but the country as a whole.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe highlife that our elders left, the younger ones are not doing it. They are doing more dancehall, singing in patoa, doing reggae and putting highlife behind.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He pleaded and called on industry players to unite to champion the highlife cause. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne man cannot fight a dozen. We need to put our heads together. If we do not put our heads together as musicians, then we will face the same problems we are facing now,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p><strong>SEE MORE: <\/strong><strong>Court orders arrest of popular Nollywood actress, Monalisa Chinda-Coker<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Mr Ambolley reiterated highlife is not just Ghanaian but also a sense of pride and source of instant identification for the world.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe media is helping music that comes out of our heritage to vanish, but it will not vanish anyway because highlife is the source of every music in the world, so it will never vanish.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Source: Kasapafmonline<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/1002554\/Adomonline\/ado-article-leaderboard_mid --><\/p><\/div>\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>Gyedu-Blay Ambolley, veteran musician Veteran highlife musician, Gyedu-Blay Ambolley has accused the media of having a hand in deteriorating Ghana\u2019s musical heritage [Highlife]. The highlife singer blamed the media for encouraging, especially, the young artistes to totally deviate from the foundation on which the entire Ghana music industry was built. \u201cThe younger ones are doing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":605009,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-605008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Blame media for fading out Ghana\u2019s heritage \u2013 Gyedu Blay Ambolley - 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\/2019\/04\/04\/blame-media-for-fading-out-ghanas-heritage-gyedu-blay-ambolley\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Blame media for fading out Ghana\u2019s heritage \u2013 Gyedu Blay Ambolley - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Gyedu-Blay Ambolley, veteran musician Veteran highlife musician, Gyedu-Blay Ambolley has accused the media of having a hand in deteriorating Ghana\u2019s musical heritage [Highlife]. 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