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Entertainment of Saturday, 8 March 2008

Source: GNA

Lord Wumpini to launch second album

Accra, March 8, GNA - Lord Wumpini, a Ghanaian hiplife artist is to launch his second album on April 5, this year to further promote his campaign against social menace in Ghana and Africa

The album titled: "Second Chance", aims at drumming home issues such as rape, broken marriages and guinea worm. The launch would take place in Tamale, in the Northern Region.

Speaking to the Ghana Mews Agency on Saturday, Lord Wumpini of the Guinea worm eradication song fame, said apart from the quality and rich African culture portrayed in his video clip, the lyrics of the songs were clear and good enough to make listeners sing along. Responding to why he chose to sing on social issues, the Accra based musician said it was his goal to create awareness, educate, influence the behaviour of society positively and promote African music to the international world.

"It is our responsibility as musicians to talk about social issues that affect us negatively as a people because I believe that no other group communicates better to the youth than we do," he added. Lord Wumpini said musicians faced lots of problems in Ghana, because of the lack of legal structures to guarantee the protection of their rights and interests.

According to him, the issue of piracy ought to be holistically looked at and addressed by all stakeholders in order to protect the music industry from dying.

The artist, known in his private life as Mustapha Quansah, said it was time musicians came together to fight for their rights irrespective of which part of the country they hailed from. Miss Yvonne Damalie, Public Relations Officer of the artist said it would not be a bad idea for government to create a financial facility that would support musicians in the country adding that, "the industry is capital intensive."

"If other businesses can access government's funds such as the Venture Capital Fund and various micro credits funds, then musicians also deserve to be supported to help develop the music industry," she added.