Celebrity

After almost a decade of serving the interest of many Ghanaian artistes, music producer, Mix Masta Garzy, feels inspired to lend his talent and skills to others outside the shores of the country.

That inspiration has motivated him to embark on a European tour dubbed Studio Session with Mix Masta Garzy and from next month, he will visit some of the popular music studios in countries such as Holland, Blegium, Italy, France, Spain, Germany and Switzerland.

The month-long tour which is being organised by 2MG Music in collaboration with Flexclusive Music Entertianment, according to Mix Masta Garzy, will help him acquire more knowledge in his field of endeavour.

Ghanaian born UK based gospel musician, Betty Acheampong  is prepared to  launch her maiden album Adom on March 13, 2016 at the Tesano Baptist Church.

The 2 pm launch will be supported by gospel artistes Selina Boateng, Bismark Takyi , Michealina Anaman,  Francis Amo,  Kofi Owoahene,  Dan Appiadu and The Psalms.

Songs on the eight track album which has three worship songs, five praise songs include Obra Asro Kyɛ, Wayɛ Yiɛ, ɛbɛ si Woyiɛ,  Bisa  Awurade  and Adom (Grace).

Veteran highlife musician and educationist, Bob Pinodo, has said it is worrying that many Ghanaian artistes are unable to make appropriate financial gains from their works in spite of their amazing talents.

In an interview with Showbiz last Friday, Bob Pinodo, who has been a lecturer at the University of Education at Winneba in the Central Region for over 10 years, said  lack of education about the music industry as a whole has resulted in many Ghanaian artistes earning peanuts from their hard work.

“There are many talented young people in  music in Ghana  but they are unable to market what they do. Many of them are only concentrating on putting  songs out there but not really concerned about what  structures are in place to bring them respectable income for their toil,” he said.

 In a bid not to get ‘lost’ when she started her career about five years ago, actress, Nana Akua Addo, believed a weird sense of fashion was what she needed to attract attention in an industry already pregnant with fashionistas.

She hardly dressed to suit the ocassion and it was very common to see her at glamourous events sporting ripped pair jeans teamed with extra long hair extensions, over the top make up among others.

Yes, she got the attention but it was an attraction of insults. She was heavily criticised for her sense of fashion but Nana Akua seemed unfazed.

It was the season of love and last Saturday, February 13, inmates of the Nsawam prison experienced another kind of love when hiplife artiste, Kwaw Kese, donated assorted items to the facility.

The items which included soft drinks and toiletries, according to the “Abodam” man, was to prevent the inmates from feeling left out  as people around the world expressed love to one another.

In addition to the presents, the Yakubu artiste threw a pre-Valentine day party dubbed Feast With Kwaw Kese for the 4,000 inmates when he treated them to packed-lunch .

Hiplife artiste Wisa, has revealed that the one week period within which a bench warrant was issued against him was an extremely difficult period for his career and his personal life.

In an interview with Showbiz on Friday at Accra Circuit Court, Wisa said the bench warrant issued for his arrest meant he was unable to move about freely and as a result, missed out on a number of shows and other business opportunities.

Actress Juliet Ibrahim set the internet on fire last week when comments about her on the major social media networks trended from Thursday till the weekend. 

This was during and after the 2015 Glo Confederation of African Football (CAF) Awards held at the Abuja International Conference Centre, Abuja, Nigeria last Thursday.

The internet literally caught fire when Ibrahim appeared on stage in her long dress with side cut and a side pattern of gold as co-host for the night, alongside SuperSport presenter, Robert Marawa.

That dress, by award-winning stylist Jeremiah Ogbodo (popularly known as Swanky Jerry) of Swanky’s Signatures Styling, was as resplendent as the delectable Ibrahim wearing it and the internet just could not handle the beauty on stage.

One of the world’s most successful footballers, Zinedine Zidane, was recently appointed the coach of Real Madrid after a successful career with the club which spanned between 2001-2006.

The French attacking midfielder was successful as a footballer, winning several laurels but it remains the biggest challenge whether he can translate that same consistency on the pitch to his new role as the manager at the Santiago Bernabeu club.

Famed actress, Akosua Busia; 2015 Ghana Movie Award recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award, returns to the site of the Buduburam Liberian Refugee Camp, after starring in ECLIPSED, at the Public Theater in New York.

Fittingly, Eclipsed is a play about the Liberian War. Buduburam is a far cry from the red carpets Busia is returning to after an 18 year hiatus she took from the Entertainment Business, in keeping with a promise to herself to come out of show-business following the birth of her child, Hadar Busia-Singleton, until Hadar turned eighteen.

In her hiatus, Busia spent her time in Ghana as Chair of Busia Foundation International, and Director General of CareShare. Along with her sister, Dr. Abena Busia, Chair of Women’s and Gender Studies at Rutgers University, USA, they brought Student Interns to Ghana, some of whom volunteered each year to help in various capacities at the Buduburam Camp, created to accommodate the influx of Liberians who fled to Ghana dur

Highlife artiste Bisa Kdei was in his element at Gold Coast Restaurant, West Airport, Accra recently as he treated patrons to good music at the launch of his second studio album BREAKTHROUGH. 

Backed by the OBY band, Bisa Kdei who is currently enjoying fame with his two hot singles Mansa and Brother Brother performed for 30 minutes. He sang songs like Odo Carpenter, Give It To Baba,

Metanfo and Over before finally lunching his much-anticipated album.

He took his time to go through the 10 track album which has songs like You Don't Know Me, Samina, Sweet, Fire, 6 Strings and Kakapɛ, Mansa and Brother Brother.

In our part of the world, there are many non-governmental organisations (NGO’s) and feminists who are pushing hard to provide mentorship programmes to alleviate the plight of the girl child, but Mrs Ethel Marfo’s NGO chose to go to the rescue of the boy child.

Mrs Marfo, CEO of the Tod-Teen Republic, is living no stone unturned in her quest to provide mentorship and direction for young boys so they can find their feet in this globally competitive world.

She believes in the maxim that society will only be better and safer if we have well-equipped boys who will eventually grow into men fully aware of their responsibilities to their families and society.

She keeps growing in stature and confidence and her energetic wide-ranging style which first caught public attention in 2011, continues to prove that the down-to-earth singer/songwriter from Fumsi in the Wa West district of the Upper West Region  has something to offer music lovers of all persuasions.

 Wiyaala’s live shows, whether in Ghana, Canada, Germany, Holland, Nigeria, South Africa or Morroco, offer glimpses into the influences that have shaped her image and attitude to music.

 Celebrated Ghanaian playwright, Ebo Whyte, says the Creatives Arts is not a 'one-man business and has thus urged the stakeholders in the business to consider and operate as an inter-dependent business, appreciating what everyone brings on board to make one's work great.

 In spite of the perception that virgins are hard to come by these days, sultry singer Yaa Yaa has revealed she is still a virgin and a proud one at that.

Yaa Yaa, born Bertha Bridget Kamkam who is currently single after breaking up last year with her boyfriend of five years, also said she is enjoying ‘singlehood’ as that is allowing her to concentrate on her music career. 

He won the admiration of many with his tongue twisting style when he hit the limelight in 2004 but rapper, Quata, who has been missing in action on the music scene for almost six years now is poised to resurrect his career.

And to prove how ready he is, Quata is out with two new songs, Ohia (Poverty) and Wind N Go Low off his upcoming Quantum album scheduled for release in December.

Aware of the soaring interest in highlife among the new crop of artistes in recent times, Quata goes back to his Ghanaian music roots on Ohia, a highlife piece which was produced by King Joe.

Read more from Graphic Showbiz...

 Barely a year after Hiplife artiste, Kwaw Kese, was arrested for smoking India Hemp in Kumasi, he made a return to the Baba Yara Stadium last Saturday for the Luv FM Schools Reunion a changed man and an anti drug abuse advocate.

Almost every rendition of the crowd-puller on the day was laced with a message on the negative effects of illicit drug use as his fans jumped, stamped their feet and danced unending in a jammed-packed event which attracted both the old and the youth.

Ghana boasts of talented professionals greatly impacting society locally and globally. Several of them can be found in fields such as Engineering, Medicine, media, architecture, law and academia, among others.

One such professional who is waving Ghana's flag on the global map is Dr Louis Kofi Essandoh, who has combined Engineering and Medicine.

He studied engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of technology (MIT) where he obtained four undergraduate and graduate degrees in four years of study.
Dr Essandoh is currently employed by Medstar Health Cardiology Associates in Maryland. This group of cardiovascular specialists and vascular surgeons has 35 experienced and highly skilled physicians in Maryland and Washington DC.

 It seems like just yesterday but it has been 10 years since pretty radio and TV personlity, Caroline Sampson ventured into broadcasting.

And while many radio and TV presenters have fallen off the radar somewhere along the line, perhaps due to the pressures that come with the job, others such as pretty YFM presenter, Caroline Sampson have defied and withstood all odds to remain in the industry to help grow it.

It seems like yesterday but it’s been five years since rap heavyweight champion, Lord Kenya, became born again and though he lives a very fulfilled life now, he admits that it hasn’t been easy.

In an interview with Showbiz last Tuesday, Evangelist Lord Kenya admitted that the journey has not been easy but it has been worth it and he has no regrets whatsoever, ‘’ God in His wisdom knows why He brought me into the Kingdom and He has been very faithful to me,’’ he said.

Touching on some of the challenges he has gone through during this period, Lord Kenya said that when he was in the world, he was doing concerts and it was bringing in a lot of money.

The issue of Oyikekyire Nana Ansah Kwao IV and his bride Gifty Anti’s marriage, code named by the media as “The Royal Wedding”, has not only been spoken about, it has been flogged. Every single aspect of the ceremony has been discussed, dissected and properly dealt with on all media fronts.

However, since I was chosen as your ambassador plenipotentiary to the ceremony with an unbridled authority to eat, drink and revel in everything that happened at the venue on your behalf, of course, I believe I owe it a duty to tell you one or two things that happened as token of my appreciation. Hope I am making sense.

Suspended newscaster and presenter at TV3 Nana Aba Anamoah has denied rumours making rounds that she has decided to leave the station to another one.

Some local news websites and blogs have over the past week been posting a story attributed to kwamesays.wordpress.com that the TV presenter was “heading towards Starr TV”, which according to the story would be the new name of GhOne TV when EIB Network eventually takes over the station from the Multiple Concepts Group.

Although the story doesn’t mention any source from which the story was received, the author claimed he had information to that effect.