{"id":1143772,"date":"2022-07-07T09:26:08","date_gmt":"2022-07-07T09:26:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/07\/07\/daddy-lumba-stole-woho-kyere-from-me-ofori-amponsah\/"},"modified":"2022-07-07T09:26:08","modified_gmt":"2022-07-07T09:26:08","slug":"daddy-lumba-stole-woho-kyere-from-me-ofori-amponsah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/07\/07\/daddy-lumba-stole-woho-kyere-from-me-ofori-amponsah\/","title":{"rendered":"Daddy Lumba Stole \u2018Woho Kyere\u2019 From Me \u2013 Ofori Amponsah \u00bb \u2122"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div data-td-block-uid=\"tdi_33\">\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<p><span class=\"td-adspot-title\">&#8211;  &#8211;<\/span><br \/>\n<!-- ResponsiveAll --><\/p>\n<h2><strong>Highlife star Ofori Amponsah has shockingly revealed that Daddy Lumba has stolen his work during his rise to fame.<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>When the Ghanaian legend Lumba openly stole his work, the singer was disgusted.<\/p>\n<p>When the album \u201cWo Ho Kyere\u201d was published in 1999, Ofori stated that this sad event took place, according to a TV XYZ interview.<\/p>\n<p>He worked tirelessly alongside Daddy Lumba to bring the concept to fruition, but the latter conveniently claimed ownership.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"td-adspot-title\">&#8211;  &#8211;<\/span><br \/>\n<!-- ResponsiveAll --><\/p>\n<p>That the legend, better known as DL, was only meant to appear as a guest artiste is the source of the grief and anguish of this all.<\/p>\n<p>At the age of 18, Ofori Amponsah was Daddy Lumba\u2019s naive protege, excited to be working with such a legendary musician as that man.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"td-adspot-title\">&#8211;  &#8211;<\/span><br \/>\n<!-- ResponsiveAll --><\/p>\n<p>Ofori is now claiming that the album \u2018Wo Ho Kyere\u2019 was his blood and sweat and was supposed to be in his name and not Daddy Lumba\u2019s.<\/p>\n<p>In an interview with TV XYZ, Ofori Amponsah elaborated on this claim.<\/p>\n<p>The decision to give Lumba \u201cWo Ho Kyere,\u201d an album that cost him six years of his life, was something he had no idea about.<\/p>\n<p>When he returned to Ghana after working on the album\u2019s artwork and other aspects in Germany, he realized the concept had completely shifted.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt should have been the other way around,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n<p>This was unfortunate because the adjustments favored his mentor, Daddy Lumba, in an unethical way.<\/p>\n<h3\/>\n<noscript><\/p>\n<div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"TAIpTysILrQ\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Daddy Lumba &amp; Ofori Amponsah - Wo Ho Kyere (Audio Slide)\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/TAIpTysILrQ?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><\/noscript><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"td-adspot-title\">&#8211;  &#8211;<\/span><br \/>\n<!-- ResponsiveAll --><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8211; &#8211; Highlife star Ofori Amponsah has shockingly revealed that Daddy Lumba has stolen his work during his rise to fame. When the Ghanaian legend Lumba openly stole his work, the singer was disgusted. When the album \u201cWo Ho Kyere\u201d was published in 1999, Ofori stated that this sad event took place, according to a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1143774,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[12242,65,11026,9563,3653,7531,19906],"class_list":["post-1143772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-amponsah","tag-daddy","tag-kyere","tag-lumba","tag-ofori","tag-stole","tag-woho"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1143772","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1143772"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1143772\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1143772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1143772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1143772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}