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The question of whether one would choose to be a nobody in America rather than a star in Africa has been a challenging one for Ghana-born, UK-based musician, Anthony Rison Enyie Okai, known as Rison.<\/p>\n
According to him, it was a question posed by a brother concerning the fact that he started his music career in America with Rhythm and Blues (R&B), which is an American genre of music.<\/p>\n
In a conversation with KMJ on Prime Morning<\/strong>, the musician stated that the question has been a challenge thrown at him, thus he is working harder to make a difference.<\/p>\n He said, \u201cWhen I started, it was more R&B, and I was trying to get into it. It was very hard because I wasn\u2019t born there. So, my brother said something to me in 2014. He asked, \u201cWould you rather be a Wizkid of Africa or a nobody in America?<\/p>\n Replying to the question, he said, \u201cBut I\u2019ll still be somebody in America.\u201d To prove his answer, the artiste has been working towards changing the ideology.<\/p>\n Speaking on how artistes can use dual citizenship to their advantage, he admitted that it has given him a lot of opportunities as he travels to and fro countries without a visa.<\/p>\n But in terms of music, he thinks it is about the value and relevance of the music and not the location of the artiste.<\/p>\n Considering the challenges he has been through during the early stages, he admitted that \u201cmusic is a patient game.\u201d<\/p>\n To break through the music industry, Rison indicated that \u201cit is about who you know; talent is just a small part of it.\u201d He said one needs to \u201cpay your dues in order to get there\u201d.<\/p>\n The singer, who is also a writer, has released a new song titled \u201cNobody,\u201d which can be accessed on all music platforms.<\/p>\n The question still remains: \u201cWould you prefer to be a nobody in America or a Wizkid of Africa?\u201d<\/p>\n DISCLAIMER: <\/strong>The Views, Comments, Opinions, Contributions and Statements made by Readers and Contributors on this platform do not necessarily represent the views or policy of Multimedia Group Limited.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The question of whether one would choose to be a nobody in America rather than a star in Africa has been a challenging one for Ghana-born, UK-based musician, Anthony Rison Enyie Okai, known as Rison. According to him, it was a question posed by a brother concerning the fact that he started his music career […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1265264,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[671,910,20496,1045,28393,478,1024],"class_list":["post-1265263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-africa","tag-america","tag-dilemma","tag-musician","tag-rison","tag-shares","tag-wizkid"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1265263","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=1265263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1265263\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1265263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1265263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1265263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}