{"id":63593,"date":"2023-05-03T17:40:51","date_gmt":"2023-05-03T17:40:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/05\/03\/i-didnt-take-my-music-career-seriously-oheneba-kissi\/"},"modified":"2023-05-03T17:40:51","modified_gmt":"2023-05-03T17:40:51","slug":"i-didnt-take-my-music-career-seriously-oheneba-kissi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/05\/03\/i-didnt-take-my-music-career-seriously-oheneba-kissi\/","title":{"rendered":"I didn&#8217;t take my music career seriously &#8211; Oheneba Kissi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"article-text\">\n<p>Despite his songs being loved by a lot of Ghanaians, Highlife artiste Oheneba Kissi has said that he did not take his music career seriously at the initial stage.<\/p>\n<p>In an interview with\u00a0<em><strong>Graphic <\/strong><\/em>, he said that his lack of commitment to his music endeavours was possibly a significant reason why he had not been able to get the necessary traction in the Ghanaian music sector.<\/p>\n<p>Oheneba Kissi explained that he would have been more famous and probably made more money if he was releasing more albums like Daddy Lumba and other musicians of his time.<\/p>\n<p>The 65-year-old musician said it took Mark Okraku Mante who was then his producer to get him to shoot the video for ABC of Love, which pushed him into the limelight.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/image-26.png\" alt=\"I didn't take my music career seriously - Oheneba Kissi\" class=\"wp-image-10032302079 lazy\" height=\"384\"  data- title=\"I didn't take my music career seriously - Oheneba Kissi\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Oheneba Kissi<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Highlife musician, who released his first album Suzy in 1990 and followed it up with other albums making it a total of 13, said his songs were more popular than his name and his name was more popular than his image.<\/p>\n<p>With all his many popular songs, Ohenena Kissi has no awards from any of the main awards schemes yet but he said he was not bothered at all so far as Ghanaians loved his music and he kept getting gigs that made him comfortable.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have no awards yet from the popular awards scheme such as\u00a0<em>Vodafone Ghana  Awards(VGMA), 3Music Awards,<\/em>\u00a0etc.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was the University of Education-Winneba that honoured me for my contribution to Highlife music some time ago,\u201d he said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>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":"<p>Despite his songs being loved by a lot of Ghanaians, Highlife artiste Oheneba Kissi has said that he did not take his music career seriously at the initial stage. 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