Ghanaian highlife artiste, Freddy Snizzle, has made an assertion that the afrobeat genre of music was derived from Ghana.
Interviewed on the Late Nite Celebrity Show, he told host, Foster Romanus that afrobeat is Ghanaian because Fela Kuti came to Ghana to learn its vibe. Per his view, afrobeat has been dominated by Nigerians only because they have the numbers and more investors.
Replying to whether as a high-life artiste, he is being affected by the fact that afrobeat is selling more, he said, ‘’It is not affecting me because afrobeat was derived from highlife. It has the highlife feel; the drum pattern, the guitar and all so I think highlife is still alive only that it’s been modernized into the afrobeat style’’.
Freddy Snizzle concluded that highlife to him, is still topnotch because it is similar to afrobeat and it is the mother of afrobeat
By: Maureen Dedei Quaye.