In an interview with Foster Romanus on the Late Nite Celebrity show, he stated:” Highlife is in our DNA as Ghanaians because everyone grew up listening to high-life. The unfortunate thing is most people don’t claim it. Lots of our musicians make high-life music but they don’t claim it. People think if you put yourself in that box, you are seen as a villager”.
According to him, Ghana must adopt the high-life music as its own because countries all over the world have genres peculiar to their culture.
In his opinion, promotion of high-life music is easier these days than before. He reminisced the days when all music done in Ghana were labelled as high-life music.
“Back in the day, most people were not into too many genres. A lot of people were doing too many genres as well but all of them were calling it high-life because nobody was standing up to challenge anybody”, he said.
He, however, noted that with the help of the internet, people are able to decipher what songs are high-life and what songs are not.
Dada Hafco is currently promoting his new single dubbed ‘Our Story’, which features Fameye.
By: Alberta Dorcas N D Armah