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Ghanaian Singer and the CEO of Self-Nation, Addi Self has shared the inspiration behind taking up the less patronized music genre in Africa, Reggae-Dancehall.
According to Addi Self, the experiences he had while growing up at Maamobi, a suburb in the Greater Accra Region inspired him to do songs to capture his story and help him highlight the experiences of the less privileged.
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“People who have seen my music journey know the rap side of me and keep asking me why Dancehall. But for me, I do everything in music. It all started growing up in Maamobi-Nima. Seeing stuff and seeing a whole lot of different things and how to grow up and how the less privileged coming from the ghetto didn’t have a voice.
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“We didn’t have someone always trying to say what was going on in the ghetto. So, I found myself writing what I saw around me. I see people doing stuff and I tried to blend those experiences with music,” he told Rev Erskine in an interview on Y107.9 FM’s “Myd Morning Radio Show”.
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“I saw myself loving Reggae and Dancehall so much because my father was a fan of Reggae and he always played Peter Touch, Bob Marley, and the likes so I grew up loving Reggae- Dancehall naturally. And obviously, these greats influenced me because I started looking at them before I started looking at Ghana artists and stuff like that,” he added.
Source: www.ghbase.com
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