Veteran Ghanaian highlife musician Nana Fynn has revealed the unusual lengths he went to before finally completing his hit song Menkoaa.

He said he emptied his entire room after struggling to find inspiration.

Speaking on Kafui Dey’s Interview, Nana Fynn said he had been determined to finish the song because he believed it had the potential to become a hit, but inspiration had suddenly dried up until he acted on what he described as an inner voice.

“It got to a point that inspiration wasn’t coming again. So a voice told me in my head, this is crazy, it said, ‘Take everything out of your room,’” he recalled.

According to the highlife veteran, he began removing everything from his room, including chairs, his mattress and even the wooden bed frame, while family members looked on, believing he was simply doing another round of general cleaning.

“My own people were there. I’m sure they were saying, ‘That man again, we don’t know what it’s about.’ They actually thought I was doing general cleaning again. But I wasn’t talking to anybody because my piano was fixed in the room,” he said.

Nana Fynn explained that once the room was completely empty and he was alone with his piano, the inspiration he had been searching for finally arrived.

“So I took everything out. The room was empty. That is when the song came,” he said.

After sharing the story, the veteran musician picked up a guitar and performed Menkoaa, prompting host Kafui Dey to praise his songwriting and melodies. Nana Fynn noted that melody is always the starting point of his creative process.

“I start with melody,” he said.

PAT/EB