{"id":1189819,"date":"2022-08-25T08:34:10","date_gmt":"2022-08-25T08:34:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/08\/25\/it-is-shallow-to-think-sugarcane-is-doing-well-because-of-nigerian-accent-camidoh-to-critics\/"},"modified":"2022-08-25T08:34:10","modified_gmt":"2022-08-25T08:34:10","slug":"it-is-shallow-to-think-sugarcane-is-doing-well-because-of-nigerian-accent-camidoh-to-critics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/08\/25\/it-is-shallow-to-think-sugarcane-is-doing-well-because-of-nigerian-accent-camidoh-to-critics\/","title":{"rendered":"It is shallow to think &#8216;Sugarcane&#8217; is doing well because of Nigerian accent &#8211; Camidoh to critics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"article-text\" style=\"line-height: 2; letter-spacing: -0.5px;font-size: 18px;\">\n<p>                        <!--p class=\"ky_saved_articles_link\"><span class=\"ky_saved_articles_hide\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\" class=\"ky_saved_articles_img\" alt=\"It is shallow to think 'Sugarcane' is doing well because of Nigerian accent - Camidoh to critics\" title=\"It is shallow to think 'Sugarcane' is doing well because of Nigerian accent - Camidoh to critics\"><\/span> Bookmark<\/p-->\n<p>Ghanaian musician, Camidoh has responded to critics who believe he found success with his banging tune \u2018Sugarcane\u2019 because he sounded Nigerian.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, it is quite shallow for anybody to think like that.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"709\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Camidoh-2-709x1024.jpg\" alt=\"It is shallow to think 'Sugarcane' is doing well because of Nigerian accent - Camidoh to critics\" class=\"wp-image-10032158390\"   title=\"It is shallow to think 'Sugarcane' is doing well because of Nigerian accent - Camidoh to critics\"\/><\/figure>\n<p>In an interview on the \u2018Xclusives\u2019 show on JoyPrime, he quizzed why most Ghanaians seem to enjoy and hail foreigners for singing in our local dialect, yet when Ghanaian musicians do the same, it\u2019s a problem.<\/p>\n<p>He told Noella Kharyne Yalley that  \u201cIt is their opinion for which they\u2019re entitled to. With time, people will get to understand that we were never meant to be just Ghana. We were meant to be African. I\u2019m Ewe, if I chose to go by that mentality, I\u2019ll be doing music solely in Ewe. And if we think like that, then we will be encouraging boundaries. It\u2019s 2022, and a time the world is trying to be one.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-embed-handler wp-block-embed-embed-handler wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<p><div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"6S_h7IUqH6M\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"CAMI EMBRACE SHALLOW\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6S_h7IUqH6M?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p>\u201cSo if we\u2019re going to sit here and allow Nigerians, South Africans, come to Ghana, borrow our words, make music with it and we jam to it, yet when we (Ghanaian musicians) borrow their words and make music with it, we (Ghanaians) criticize it, then we\u2019ve erred. So whoever thinks that I\u2019m shining in the shadows of another country, it\u2019s a shallow way of looking at things,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"731\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Camidoh-3-731x1024.jpg\" alt=\"It is shallow to think 'Sugarcane' is doing well because of Nigerian accent - Camidoh to critics\" class=\"wp-image-10032158391\"   title=\"It is shallow to think 'Sugarcane' is doing well because of Nigerian accent - Camidoh to critics\"\/><\/figure>\n<p>He also admonished Ghanaians to back down on the criticisms and embrace evolution around creativity.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLet\u2019s back down on the criticisms, and embrace evolution and creativity. It\u2019s not like it\u2019s deliberate to sound Nigerian, am I only going to make my money in Nigeria? <\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo! Is the Nigerian sound the sound of the world? No! The world is open to listening to every sound that\u2019s quality. So let\u2019s not make it seem like I\u2019m trying to deliberately sound Nigerian so I can tap into their market.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>                <!-- Post Tags --><\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.myjoyonline.com\/it-is-shallow-to-think-sugarcane-is-doing-well-because-of-nigerian-accent-camidoh-to-critics\/\">Source<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ghanaian musician, Camidoh has responded to critics who believe he found success with his banging tune \u2018Sugarcane\u2019 because he sounded Nigerian. According to him, it is quite shallow for anybody to think like that. In an interview on the \u2018Xclusives\u2019 show on JoyPrime, he quizzed why most Ghanaians seem to enjoy and hail foreigners for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1189821,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[10490,11206,1737,1515,21280,11587],"class_list":["post-1189819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-accent","tag-camidoh","tag-critics","tag-nigerian","tag-shallow","tag-sugarcane"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1189819","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=1189819"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1189819\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1189819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1189819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1189819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}