Fast up rising versatile Gospel star Kobby Egyeil who is known in showbiz as Coby Seed has made a profound statement debunking the claims and the perceptions surrounding the idea that of circular art supersedes the Gospel art in Ghana
The ‘Finally Finally’ hit maker in an exclusive interview with amaniefm.com revealed that, the Gospel music industry in Ghana lacks creativity in terms of pragmatic composition of lyrics, style of delivery or singing also sound production and fashion which outwardly presents the artiste with good impression as a marketable brand to fans and interested investors.
He further reiterated that, these unfortunate factors are as a result of belittling the unbelievable power in the Gospel genre and lack of knowledge on how to style up a write-up of a song to be suitable to the taste of the listeners as compared to the circular music which has great lyrical composition and a well calculated arrangement of instrumentation accompanied by a hardcore styled-up presentation.
According to the multi-talented Gospel song writer and singer, he believes life is full of choices and therefore it is obvious that, the players in the circular music industry are making it is because, they are focused not only on the their regular songs production but also the commercial aspect of music and have channeled all their creativity into their art work to make it a master piece with good sound production instead of a none-creative multiple songs which is mostly done by many Gospel arts in Ghana where you only get to hear re-sampling of the same song over and over again which obviously has become a norm in the industry.,
Coby Seed also hinted on some of the pragmatic steps which needs to be put in place to tackle these frustrating issues killing the Gospel industry in Ghana. He said Gospel musicians who have nice voices but can not produce quality lyrical content should consult professional song writers like the Ghana Association of Song writers {GASW} to assist them in writing and if possible tell the experts the concept of the song so that the association can creatively come up with a better composition of words or lyrics for the song. He further added that, ” Gospel artistes should stop going round begging for low price recordings which mostly end up in the trash of Deejays for its low quality because nothing good come for free and they must begin to realize that the Gospel genre in under the Showbiz industry which has two side the show and the business aspect”. He opined
