Akwaboah Shares Inspiration Behind New Album, ‘Lighthouse’
Akwaboah asserts that he is the torchbearer for Highlife songs in Ghana’s music industry.
He believes that all Ghanaian songs are rooted in the highlife sound and considers himself a guiding light to attract others to highlife music. During an interview on the Showbiz 360 show on TV3, Akwaboah discussed the inspiration behind his album “Lighthouse.” As a reminder, Akwaoah is a great force to reckon with when it comes to entertainment in Ghana.
He expressed his desire to showcase the beauty and challenges of highlife music, which involves live instrumentation and demands precision and skill. Additionally, he aimed to steer people towards the highlife genre that Ghana excels in and to motivate other artists to draw inspiration from their musical heritage.
“I feel I’m the highlife lighthouse of Ghana music. Because bottom line is, that every song we are doing now is derived from high life. So this is me trying to tell everybody that I am the lighthouse to Ghana music. Whether they like it or not,” he noted.
“I just need people to understand that Highlife is the core of everything that we’re doing. So you can do anything that you want to do. But pick it from your source, which is the high life here
So Lighthouse is me directing people to the high-life thing that we’re doing here in Ghana. So every song you hear out there, it’s somewhat live, like, instrumentation-wise, because, you know, way back, they used to do everything live,” he said.
