Jama & Kpanlogo Is My Style Says Jay Q

Jay Q It's always a pleasure for your Chronicle on Saturday's entertainment train to go out and hook you up with the most interesting personalities you can imagine.

Let me be a little proverbial. There is a literal saying that "The creeping plant needs the tree to get to the top".

Last week, our profile centered on one of the nation's upcoming musicians, Dr. Poh. This time, your usual exciting train decided to go out and expose the mastermind behind the success of such musicians. Though he was born and bred by academic intellectuals, his father, a psychiatrist, and mother, a career woman, their sole aim was to groom him into a good lawyer.

Destiny, which cannot always be outwitted, however, laid firm grips on him and today, though he dons not lawyer's gown, his name is heard in most of sounds of our time. On Wednesday, the ubiquitous train paid a visit to the Hush Hush Studios and there was Jeff Quaye.

I know you maybe familiar with the name, but have a little patience and trust me that by the time you're through with the train, you would be baffled since that's what the train sets out to do every week.

With all smiles, he welcomed the train, and really turned out to be a rare character. According to him, he attended the New Charter Primary, Wesley Grammar, Accra Academy and Orient School of Music in that order. Initially, he did well with the keyboard and was introduced to music engineering at Fredyma Studios by one "Uncle Fred" who owned the place.

He admits that the beginning of his career was not as rosy as sleeping and walking up but he still remains grateful to God for helping him discover his potentials in the early days of his life because this had helped unearth most of the artistes making news on the airwaves today.

Looking confident and mirthful throughout the interview, he told the train that he had always preferred anonymity, and therefore was surprised at how your exciting train was able to grab him unexpectedly. Who can cause the hawk eyes of the train crew anyway? Who can? Let our readers be doubly assured that wherever they holed, we shall dig them out.

I know you still haven't got his personality because the name doesn't sound familiar. Well, let me help you then by taking you way back in time where it all began. Remember, "Am going to come" by VIP? That was when the fusion of 'jamma' and 'kpanlogo' beats were introduced by the master minder Jay Q.

Believe me, Jay Q has come to stay for good, being a witness to some discoveries like 4x4, Dr. Poh, Kwaadee and Kontihene, to mention few. One has no doubt that his promotion of Ghana in music is great. Winning awards for the best sound engineer in Ghana and the UK indicates how well his style is appreciated locally and internationally.

Anyway, before he parted with the train, he stated clearly that he was open for consultation, so smart 'cuties' out there, he is still waiting for madam right.