Who Said Highlife Is On its Death Bed?

With the increase in the number of people who perform hiplife almost everyday, the impression being given is that highlife music has become extinct.

The assertion cannot be true because there are a good number of artistes who still perform the latter.

These include Richie P whose current album titled ?Nsoroma? is in the highlife vein. It may not be such a powerful piece of work but the fact that he has chosen to sing highlife says a lot about his desire to preserve the genre.

A song on the album, which is titled ?Afia Maame?, was done in a sort of Francophone style over a ?Kpanlogo? rhythm and on it, Richie talks about the fact that he cannot sleep without seeing a particular woman.

He tells her mother that he is so much in love with her daughter and as such could do nothing without her. It has a good chorus performance by some ladies.

There is some rap along the way and a female voice that responds to the call of the call of the lead singer adds colour to the song. However, synchronization of rhythms as well as instrumentation could be improved.

On the title song ?Nsoroma? the artiste employs the best vocal performance he could muster and while at it he refers to somebody as his star. He continues that the person is his light, one cannot live without. There is a rap on this song but it is one that the song could do without. The music also lacks very good sound quality.

Other songs on the album are ?Ashi Wo More?, ?Embe Gyegye Me?, ?Soldier? and more.

Born thirty-three years ago, and christened Evans Owusu, the Kumasi based musician released his maiden album titled ?Fa W?koma Mame? a few years ago without much success and he hopes that his latest work would improve on the last performance. ?Nsoroma? was produced by Johnny A Royal Music.