By Della Russel Ocloo
Prominent musicians who turned up at the Koreana Hotel in Tema to perform as part of Nana Fynn’s Santrofi album launch to commemorate his 10th anniversary in the music business, took patrons down memory lane with a string of hit songs.
Ben Brako, Bessa Simmons and Shasha Marley were in the house to support one of their own and they kept the audience dancing throughout the entire six- hour duration of the launch programme.
Coming on stage at about midnight with his trademark headgear to match a beautiful African wear, Nana Fynn rendered songs from the Santrofi album. Backed by the Perfect Six band, he also sang earlier hits like Menkoaa and Nkotodwe.
Nana Fynn, however, expressed disappointment at the poor attendance of the event but was quick to assure himself saying: “Even Jesus began his ministry with twelve disciples but ended up being the greatest man in history with millions of followers.”
Notwithstanding the poor attendance and some hitches with sound from Fredyma and his crew who engineered the programme, everything else went well as the old acts were exciting to watch. Guitarist and singer, Andy Tay may not be be widely known but he gave a good account of himself.
The biggest entertainer for the night was Felix Owusu. A former lead singer with the Western Diamonds band, he dug deep into his thrilling repertoire and exhibited his usual fine singing which got the audience to sing along with him.
The Aha Yede hitmaker, Nana Borro, Filanzzy, Chemphe, Danso Abiam and upcoming act, Togbe did not live up to expectation and the audience audibly expressed their disappointment with what they put out.
Pope Skinny, on the other hand, gave the audience a true meaning of hiplife music and received the thumbs up from patrons including star actress Nana Ama McBrown who doled out some cedis on him.
In a chat with Showbiz after the launch, Nana Fynn said his 10-year involvement with the music industry had been challenging, but the desire to keep an appropriate legacy had kept him going.
According to him, there were times when he thought of quiting music due to issues like piracy, payola and the lack of adequate legislation to protect intellectual property. He attributed the decision to continue to encouragement from great friends like Willie Roy and Shasha Marley.
Santrofi is Nana Fynn’s sixth album. He has planned a nation-wide tour to promote the eight-track collection.
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