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17.03.2016 KIT GLOBAL WEEKDAYS / Konzert King Ayisoba
17. März 2016, 20:00 - 22:00
King Ayisoba
Bolgatanga, Ghana
Eintritt 8,- €
This is the traditional kologo music from the Upper East Region of Ghana brought with the energy and flavor of the twenty first century. King Ayisoba sings in Frafra, Twi and in English and is a big star in Ghana. The kologo is a two string guitar with a calabash gourd resonator, it is rhythmic and melodic at the same time.
This is the present, the future and I call it my own, black Gold Coast, West Africa my home.His number one hit “I Want to see you my father” is in the hearts and minds of every Ghanaian. In the song he advises fathers to be responsible and stop spending all their money on girlfriends. It’s a cry of a son who wants to see his father.A novelty appeared on the Ghana Music Awards Festival 2007 when Ayisoba, being a traditional artist, won in the category ‚most popular song of the year‘. Traditional music had hardly been in the mainstream of Ghanaian music but King Ayisoba changed it all.
Every now end then, an exception to the rule emerges that redefines the rules of the game. King Ayisoba’s debut “Modern Ghanaians” is such an album, and as the title suggests, it is a journey into the present and towards the future; and an introduction of a new era of creativity and originality in the Ghanaian music industry. His hit single “My Father” was savoured as much by the young as by the old, and by the illiterate farmer as by the business executive. He won the Ghana Music Award for Song of the Year in 2007 as well as the Traditional Song of the Year.
Ghanaweb.com.
King Ayisoba’s, “Modern Ghanaians” is the fastest selling cassette by an artist from the Northern part of Ghana. The albums popularity started in Bolgatanga where the artist is from, but has spread through the other regions like harmattann bushfire. Singing in English, Twi, Frafra, King Ayisoba’s struck a chord with the Ghanaian audience and has embraced his 2-string traditional guitar (Kologo) with great passion.
Ghana Gazette, 2007.