{"id":1191934,"date":"2022-08-27T10:24:42","date_gmt":"2022-08-27T10:24:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/08\/27\/camidoh-hits-back-at-critics-who-think-sugarcane-is-doing-well-because-of-the-nigerian-accent\/"},"modified":"2022-08-27T10:24:42","modified_gmt":"2022-08-27T10:24:42","slug":"camidoh-hits-back-at-critics-who-think-sugarcane-is-doing-well-because-of-the-nigerian-accent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/08\/27\/camidoh-hits-back-at-critics-who-think-sugarcane-is-doing-well-because-of-the-nigerian-accent\/","title":{"rendered":"Camidoh Hits Back At Critics Who Think “Sugarcane” Is Doing Well Because Of The Nigerian Accent"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Ghanaian Afropop, R&B singer and songwriter Raphael Camidoh Kofi Attachie popularly known by his stage name Camidoh has responded to critics who feel his \u201cSugarcane\u201d hit song became a nations banger because of the Nigerian accent.<\/strong><\/p>\n

According to the GB Africa\u2019s signee, it\u2019s shallow for anyone to think that \u201cSugarcane\u201d became a smash hit song because of the Nigerian accent twisted in the song.<\/p>\n

Though he admitted that everyone is entitled to their opinion, he believes with time, people will soon come to terms with the undeniable fact that we are not just born as Ghanaians but as Africans.<\/p>\n

\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,\u201d<\/em> He told Noella Kharyne Yalley<\/p>\n

\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<\/em> he said.<\/p>\n

In an interview on the \u2018Xclusives\u2019 show on JoyPrime, Camidoh admonished Ghanaians to back down on the criticisms and embrace evolution around creativity.<\/p>\n

\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

\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><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ghanaian Afropop, R&B singer and songwriter Raphael Camidoh Kofi Attachie popularly known by his stage name Camidoh has responded to critics who feel his \u201cSugarcane\u201d hit song became a nations banger because of the Nigerian accent. According to the GB Africa\u2019s signee, it\u2019s shallow for anyone to think that \u201cSugarcane\u201d became a smash hit song […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1191936,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[10490,11206,1737,312,1515,11587],"class_list":["post-1191934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-accent","tag-camidoh","tag-critics","tag-hits","tag-nigerian","tag-sugarcane"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1191934","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=1191934"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1191934\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1191934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1191934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1191934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}