{"id":1154958,"date":"2022-07-21T11:05:47","date_gmt":"2022-07-21T11:05:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/07\/21\/why-i-used-the-word-serious-when-performing-amakye-dede\/"},"modified":"2022-07-21T11:05:47","modified_gmt":"2022-07-21T11:05:47","slug":"why-i-used-the-word-serious-when-performing-amakye-dede","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/07\/21\/why-i-used-the-word-serious-when-performing-amakye-dede\/","title":{"rendered":"Why I Used The Word &#8216;Serious&#8217; When Performing- Amakye Dede"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<h2>Well-known legendary Ghanaian highlife musician Dan Amakye Dede has opened up about the reason why he always uses the word \u201cserious\u201d anytime he is performing.<\/h2>\n<p>Amakye Dede is one of the legendary musicians in Ghana who have built the foundation of the music industry. Amakye Dede has contributed massively to the music industry.<\/p>\n<h4 id=\"h-read-also-why-nana-ama-mcbrown-doesn-t-allow-her-maid-to-cook-for-her-husband-entertainment-pundit\">READ ALSO: Why Nana Ama McBrown Doesn\u2019t Allow Her Maid To Cook For Her Husband \u2013 Entertainment Pundit<\/h4>\n<p>According to the legendary artist, he always mentions the word \u201cserious\u201d in his performances because he sees his craft as a business and there attaches a very high level of seriousness to it anytime he was performing.<\/p>\n<p>According to Amakye Dede, anytime he is performing on stage, he realizes his crew and music bands at a point lose focus because they get engrossed in the music so, in order to put them back on their toes, he shouts \u201cserious\u201d to draw their attention.<\/p>\n<p>The \u2018su fre wu Nyame\u2019 artist disclosed that the strategy has worked for him so he decided to maintain it.<\/p>\n<h4>READ ALSO: Black Sherif Allegedly Rejects GHc97,000 Offer For UK Show; Reportedly Charged GHc489,000<\/h4>\n<p>\u201cI can even come and step on your foot if you are not paying attention to the work. When I say serious I\u2019m telling my team to be serious. They need to be serious.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On where he gets his energy from, he said \u201cif you know that the job is your business and you know that you\u2019re doing this business then you must be serious about it. I like the business and I\u2019ve to entertain them. If somebody pays money to come and watch you, you have to pay back,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async defer crossorigin=\"anonymous\" src=\"https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js#xfbml=1&#038;version=v13.0&#038;appId=1009694476028322&#038;autoLogAppEvents=1\" type=\"92786f0732d2d1c431118dbd-text\/javascript\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well-known legendary Ghanaian highlife musician Dan Amakye Dede has opened up about the reason why he always uses the word \u201cserious\u201d anytime he is performing. Amakye Dede is one of the legendary musicians in Ghana who have built the foundation of the music industry. Amakye Dede has contributed massively to the music industry. READ ALSO: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1154962,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[9957,1307,5551,1770],"class_list":["post-1154958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-amakye","tag-dede","tag-performing","tag-word"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1154958","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=1154958"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1154958\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1154958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1154958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1154958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}