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Entertainment of Thursday, 21 June 2007

Source: sunday world.

Top Canadian HipHop and Reggae Artists to Storm Ghana

One of Canada's top most Recording and Artist Management comapny,Special Mix management will in the comming months be in Ghana for a music exploration Tour.

The Ghana rep of the Comapny,Lawrence Cheremeh, in an interview with Entertainment Crusade, said the tour is to afford the Comapny an insight into Ghana's Music Industry and see how the Comapny can bring to bear its rich experience in the areas of Artist Management and Music promotion ."Special Mix management prides our self on bringing the best to the industry"he added .He said the visit will also have some top Canadian Music artist and a Commedian who are under the management of special Mix on board,and will put up a show and also collaborate with some top Ghanaian Music Artist for a music album.

According to the Ghana Rep,this is not the first time special Mix is touring Africa, he posited that the comapny with its former Partners Explorers recently held a large Aids Benefit Concert in south Africa where they brought over Morgan Heritage,Rita Marley,Chaka Demus and Pliers to perform three concerts.

Among the artist coming on the Ghana tour are ,King avalanche, who has carved a nich as a strong story teller,as well as a life visualiser who uses expression and emotion through real life experiences.Classic mix tapes like "formula 54" and "boodoo Mix" lifted King avalanche to the for front of hip hop in Toronto .

His hit tune "eye candy "is a favourite on commercial radio stations in Canada . Another top artist under special Mix management is on of Canad's topmost Reggae Dj's, Elements ,who grew up in the musical city of Clarendon in Jamaica.elements was surrounded by many of his idol artists and was encouraged to follow in their steps.Elements,first time in a recording studio in 2001,also saw the release of his first recording ,"Presure" .His first Video "Ride or die "featuring Korona is on rotation on the Jamaican Media Networks.Elements latest Song ,featuring the Great "Luciano" is receiving great reviews on radio stations around the world.Whilst in Ghana element will collaborate with one of Ghana's Hotest Reggae Musician and Controversial Radio Pressenter ,Blakk Rasta of Happy Fm for a music album.

Also on the bill for the Musical tour is one of Uk's most in demand comedians ,Glenda Jaxson.The two times award winner was recently arrested for causing grievious bodily harm to an audience member who was bitten by a set of flying false teeth .She was later released when it was found to be from a laughing audience memeber two rows up! Glenda has entertained many croweds including her recent African tour in Gambia and the american Airforce Bases in Germany. visit specialmix on www.special-mix.com for more on the artists and the GHANA tour.