{"id":3570,"date":"2014-03-03T15:13:30","date_gmt":"2014-03-03T15:13:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=3570"},"modified":"2014-03-04T13:47:00","modified_gmt":"2014-03-04T13:47:00","slug":"young-ghanaian-musicians-not-impacting-internationally-prof-collins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2014\/03\/young-ghanaian-musicians-not-impacting-internationally-prof-collins\/","title":{"rendered":"Young Ghanaian musicians not impacting internationally \u2013 Prof. Collins"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_3579\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3579\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Prof.-John-Collins.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3579\" alt=\"Prof. John Collins\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Prof.-John-Collins-300x200.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Prof.-John-Collins-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Prof.-John-Collins.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3579\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Prof. John Collins<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>A\u00a0 Music Professor, John Collins has lamented the failure of the current crop of young musicians to make the needed international impact.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, though Ghana can boast of the impact a few musicians are making on the international scene, it is still not enough to cement their presence.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on the <strong>Citi Breakfast Show<\/strong> on Monday as part of the Heritage Month series, Professor John Collins explained that, \u2018the time when\u00a0 African popular\u00a0 music really hit the West\u00a0 was\u00a0 in the 80s.<\/p>\n<p>If you look into African or world music sales, Nigerian, Malian, South African artistes have dominated. It\u2019s anything but Ghana.<\/p>\n<p>We should have hit the world in the 80s because we invented highlife but unfortunately, that did not happen.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0\u00a0 other reason can be attributed to miming.\u00a0 You\u00a0\u00a0 cannot go to any country in Europe or America and set up a miming band. \u00a0Nobody will listen to you.<\/p>\n<p>What\u00a0 they want is live music.\u00a0 So this is the reason as far I am concerned.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>By: Pearl Akanya Ofori \/Citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A\u00a0 Music Professor, John Collins has lamented the failure of the current crop of young musicians to make the needed international impact. According to him, though Ghana can boast of the impact a few musicians are making on the international scene, it is still not enough to cement their presence. 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