{"id":74496,"date":"2023-06-08T12:01:07","date_gmt":"2023-06-08T12:01:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/06\/08\/rocky-dawuni-explains-why-most-of-his-songs-are-in-english\/"},"modified":"2023-06-08T12:01:07","modified_gmt":"2023-06-08T12:01:07","slug":"rocky-dawuni-explains-why-most-of-his-songs-are-in-english","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/06\/08\/rocky-dawuni-explains-why-most-of-his-songs-are-in-english\/","title":{"rendered":"Rocky Dawuni explains why most of his songs are in English\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/dawuni.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div id=\"article-text\">\n<p>Three-time Grammy Awards nominee, Rocky Dawuni, has waded in the argument of role of languages in the marketability of songs.<\/p>\n<p>Although he asserts that music has its own language, he admitted that there are exceptions.<\/p>\n<p>He told Kwame Dadzie on <strong>Joy FM\u2019s Twitter Spaces <\/strong>that for songs that have special themes meant to inform people, language of the target audience matters.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was touching on issues that deal with the rights of people, inspiring people and I felt that a language that could access a bigger audience in terms of the lyrics was a good way to position in order to gain a much more immediate universal comprehension to the songs so that is why I chose English,\u201d he noted.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He said growing up he was exposed to other Ghanaian local languages and even uses some of them in his compositions but he felt that the English was a way he could really be able to connect to audiences in and outside Ghana.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think it really served me well to be able to push through that language [English] and also variants like Pidgin,\u201d he added.\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"\/>\n<p>Speaking on the Spaces, Frank Owusu Kwabena (Franky 5), a gospel music promoter and media personality stressed that gospel musicians also pay attention to language.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Just like Rocky, Franky intimated that gospel songs are meant to evangelize and that the moment the communication is lost, the import of the gospel is defeated.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He cited Joe Mettle\u2019s \u2018Bo Nooni\u2019 and Diana Hamilton\u2019s \u2018Adom\u2019 as songs that had cross-over effects because the musicians did part of the compositions in English, a language that is spoken by about 1.4 billion people across the world.<\/p>\n<p>Rocky Dawuni has been nominated in the Grammy Awards on three occasions. 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