{"id":37079,"date":"2014-08-05T14:00:01","date_gmt":"2014-08-05T14:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=37079"},"modified":"2014-08-05T12:50:36","modified_gmt":"2014-08-05T12:50:36","slug":"ofori-amponsah-im-not-musically-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2014\/08\/ofori-amponsah-im-not-musically-dead\/","title":{"rendered":"Ofori Amponsah: I\u2019m not musically-dead"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Although his maiden gospel album did not do well on the market as he had expected, highlife musician-turned-pastor, Ofori Amponsah, says nothing will make him go back to secular music.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>\u201cI receive calls regularly from friends and fans who keep asking me to go back to highlife music since I am not doing well in the gospel scene.<\/p>\n<p>Whenever I hear such comments, I brush them off because I know what I want to achieve with my gospel music\u201d he told Showbiz in an interview on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>According to Ofori Amponsah, although his earlier songs were mostly decent love songs, still, there is no way he would go back to secular music as his admirers suggest.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat people forget is that I am a born-again person and my new rules do not permit me to do secular music. Yes, many people wish I did secular music but I am sorry that cannot happen\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>To prove to his fans and friends \u00a0that he was not \u201cdead\u201d \u00a0on the music scene as many people believe, Ofori Amponsah said he would turn things around with his latest song Wose Kwame Ate Ahwe which will be released next week.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI hear people say all the time that I am no more useful on the music scene but I think it is about time I proved all those doubting Thomases wrong. I\u2019m confident that my \u00a0song will be a hit because I have put in so much.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Currently, Ofori Amponsah has a music school which together with his team teach new musicians how \u00a0to compose and write their own songs.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Source: Graphic Online<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Although his maiden gospel album did not do well on the market as he had expected, highlife musician-turned-pastor, Ofori Amponsah, says nothing will make him go back to secular music. \u201cI receive calls regularly from friends and fans who keep asking me to go back to highlife music since I am not doing well in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":37080,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[35,6],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Ofori Amponsah: I\u2019m not musically-dead - Citi 97.3 FM - Relevant Radio. 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