{"id":766148,"date":"2019-12-16T17:38:42","date_gmt":"2019-12-16T17:38:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2019\/12\/16\/new-artistes-dont-come-to-us-for-tips-and-music-lessons-ambolley-cries-out\/"},"modified":"2019-12-16T17:38:42","modified_gmt":"2019-12-16T17:38:42","slug":"new-artistes-dont-come-to-us-for-tips-and-music-lessons-ambolley-cries-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/12\/16\/new-artistes-dont-come-to-us-for-tips-and-music-lessons-ambolley-cries-out\/","title":{"rendered":"New artistes don\u2019t come to us for tips and music lessons \u2013 Ambolley cries out \u00bb \u2122"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div data-td-block-uid=\"td_uid_16_5df7c122351ba\">\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<p><span class=\"td-adspot-title\">&#8211;  &#8211;<\/span><br \/>\n<!-- ghbase-3-by250mobile --><\/p>\n<p>In a recent interview with\u00a0Graphic \u00a0at the Labadi Beach Hotel, Gyedu-Blay Ambolley said the new crop of musicians were not learning from the veterans and that\u2019s why their songs and stage performances were not the best.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn my time, I learnt from the best musicians and made sure I got everything right before doing music professionally but that is not what is happening today.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe new crop of musicians are not learning from some of us and it is so sad; they enter the studio and the next minute, they are out with a song.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"td-adspot-title\">&#8211;  &#8211;<\/span><br \/>\n<!-- Responsive Link Ads --><\/p>\n<p>\u201cNow anyone at all is a musician because of a computer fine-tuning voices to sound good. 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