Ghanaian Hiphop artiste Ruth Eno Adjoa Amankwah Nyame Adom, popularly known as Eno Barony has touched on how some Gospel artistes in the country refused to feature on her newly released album, “Ladies First”.
According to her, she has not really had many female friends because she mostly hangs out a lot with guys. And wanting to be spontaneous with her new album, she decided to put some gospel female artistes on there.
Talking about some of the challenges she faced while trying to put her album together, she said, “this album has thought me a lot of lessons, especially knowing that featuring a female artiste is not easy, especially when you’re also female”.
In an interview with NYDJ on Y 102.5 FM’s Ryse N Shyne Show, she said, “I wanted to feature one gospel female artiste on the album and most of those I reached out to turned me down”.
According to Eno, she reached out to about five gospel artistes and some of them just gave her cogent reasons why they could not do it, with others just ignoring her because of the genre of music she did.
Sharing her painful experience with listeners, she added that although she does not understand reasons given by these artistes she believes, “at the end of the day, the message of the song is what is important not the person singing it”.
“I didn’t force anybody to sing on my album. I’ll always reach out to those who are ready to work with me and I’ll also work with them”, she added.
By: Gyamfuah Owusu-Ackom