Twenty-four-year-old
songstress Sista Afia has said she abandoned her nursing career in the
United Kingdom (UK) and came to Ghana to pursue a music career.
Speaking in an exclusive interview with NEWS-ONE on Thursday, she said music is her passion and that she will go to any length to fulfil it.
“I grew up in Accra
and Kumasi. I went to Reverend John Teye Memorial Institute and also
Angel Educational Complex before relocating to the UK. They dragged me
to the UK by force. I was 15 then and I did my high school and
university in the UK. I read Nursing but I came to Ghana because of
music. That is how serious I am about my music career,” she said.
“The first thing I
have in mind is to link up with my country. When I was a kid, I wanted
to sing in Ghana. I wanted to be someone who can inspire other people. I
just wanted to be in Ghana. Hopefully when things go well, I can go
back,” she added.
“I am just a regular
girl who likes to sing and do something with my music career. I love
music. That’s all I can say,” she also said.
Born Franchesca Duncan
Williams, Afia started singing at church programmes and wedding
ceremonies while in London. That caught the attention of her manager who
later introduced her to Bisa Kdei who has since been helping her.
“I met Bisa Kdei
through my manager and he is a lovely guy. We are just friends. We are
cool and we care for each other. Nothing really; we are just working
together basically. I have nothing amorously going on with him. We just
care for each other; we care as far as caring could reach. He helps me
out musically. He produced my songs and did the beats,” she said,
dispelling rumours that she is dating Kdei.
Currently, Afia has two highlife singles titled Krokro No and Are You Ready, which was released on February 1. She hopes to drop an album sometime soon.
However, she craves
for women empowerment in Ghana’s music industry as she says she is
shocked that no Ghanaian female artiste has ever won artiste of the year
award at the annual Vodafone Ghana Music Awards.
She described it as “unfair” and said it was about time the ladies in the industry came together and worked extra hard.
“Ghana music, the
girls’ category is missing a lot (sic). Even though it is there, it is
not there. I think we need to come up and fight and talk more good stuff
in our music. We need to run ourselves properly; that’s what I can say
when it comes to the girls’ category because the men have overtaken us
and it is not fair. We need to come together, work together and push
ourselves up.
“I don’t understand
why no female artiste has ever won artiste of the year. There were years
when top notch female musicians like Akosua Agyapong were getting
awards for what they did. I don’t understand why female artistes these
days don’t get it [the artiste of the year award].
She noted that the
music industry could not solely be faulted for the inability of female
artistes to win the artiste of the year award in recent times, but
female artistes themselves, compounded by the mindset of Ghanaians, were
equally responsible for the unfortunate situation.
“It is always about
the men. The people are not focusing on the women and I blame the
ladies…I also blame the industry because they are not giving the women
chances [to] come up,” Afia said.
Listen to her new single produced by Bisa Kdei below..
By Francis Addo (Twitter: @fdee50 Email: fdee500@yahoo.com)
Source - DailyGuide.Com
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