Lack of quality musicians sunk the Azonto genre — Gyedu Blay Ambolley

Veteran Highlife singer Gyedu Blay Ambolley believes the Azonto genre could have been sustained if the originators were trained enough.

According to him, the genre was a nice one but was voided of proper export if the originators were properly trained musicians.

He stated in an interview on the Weekend Rush hosted by Kokonsa Kester on Y107.9FM that the genre, unfortunately, became shallow as a result.

“The people who came up with azonto were not trained musicians, so, it became really shallow instead of being really full.

“If you see how the white people were dancing to azonto, you can tell it was a really good export so why couldn’t we keep exporting it? Because there was a problem”, he said.

He expressed that the highlife genre has firm and solid basics because it was originated by well-trained and quality musicians.

Mr. Ambolley charged music industry players in the country to think of innovative ways of exporting Ghanaian music because it is enjoyed everywhere and even by children.

“Highlife is a type of music that brings everybody to the floor so we need to think about how we can export that,” he said.