Well-known musician, producer and sound engineer, Nana Sei popularly
known as Nacee, has reiterated his position that he is not specifically
hooked to one particular genre like ‘Gospel’ as being peddled around.
He said,he prefers to be recognized as a musician and sound engineer.
“I am a musician and every good musician writes from his heart, soul
and spirit about what you feel and things surrounding you. I have gone
through a lot in life so when I write my songs it is not about one
particular genre or gospel, secular or whatever. I can see that what if I
do things like this I write it from my soul and spirit age and I don’t
think that it is good for anyone to ‘box’ me into one place because it
may discourage or dampen the spirit of prospective future musicians who
may be confronted with the same issue. I need to encourage such person
that is not the end of life when they faced with such predicament”.
He said this in an interview on Kasapa 102.3 FM’s Entertainment show
when he officially launched his latest single from his yet to be
released album entitled ‘Me Ne Wo aaa’ (I and you).
According to
Nacee, his current single talks about love in a low tempo vein which
combines multipurpose instrumentation and other genres like Sasa, Jazz
fused with African beat which drops with a touch of class, a real
African rhythm.
He explained that he developed the concept and the
idea from a personal experience that led to the discovery of ‘Num Nsu’
(Drink Water) song.
“I developed the idea from a personal experience
I had so I thought it wise I can develop it to be used by the tourism
sector to use it as a tourist song to inform and entertain tourist at
the same time educate them about our cultural values about the harmless
foods available for them to eat.
“That is why if my name is mentioned it shouldn’t be restricted to only gospel because I am a musician.
“Our relationship continues to dwindle; everyone thinks he or she is
right even a mere apology to settle scores is nonexistence leading to
changing partners in a least provocation and most of us have become
‘professional prostitutes’ and turn to play the blame game.
“The
respect or the purpose of marriage or becoming husband and wife or
creating a family is no more there it has become fantasies. These days
men or women wants women with huge body, boobs, tall, handsome,
millionaire, cars, fair among other qualities instead of looking for
real and genuine affection. We must show love and appreciate our
partners for whatever contribution they make in our lives. If we go
wrong in our relationship, we don’t need the whole world before we
apologize and show our love. That is the essence of this song and is
gospel in love affairs to tell everybody “Mi Ni Wua”. This song is not
in to fight anybody but to at least let us change our perception,
concerning certain things that we should love one another”.
He said
his type of music is not extraordinary but revolve around contemporary
and indigenous African rhythm where one finds impeccable rolling drum
beats, rhythm, good arrangement and smooth voice over.
His type of
music can be described as a mixture of known genres fused with Afro beat
which can be compared to the works of renowned musicians like Rex Omar,
Angelique Kidjoe, Salif Keita, Yuoussou Ndou among others.
This, he
noted was his reason he finds it difficult to be caged with a
particular genre because he uses such a wide range of influences to
accomplish his good work.
“I have been working on this album for
some time now and it hasn’t been easy. It has been long process of
trying moments to decide what kind of music to do at a given period of
time before help-tune myself to find my rhythm, physically and
metaphorically. In fact a lot of soul-searching that goes into such
project and to establish what I feel comfortable to sing about, say and
the message determines the genre I want to bring out. I don’t only do
gospel but cut Ace music producer and sound engineer, Nana Sei also
known as Nacee, has reiterated his position that he is not specifically
hooked to one particular genre like ‘Gospel’ as being peddled around.
To him, he prefers to be recognized as a musician and engineer.
“I am a musician and every good musician writes from his heart, soul
and spirit about what you feel and things surrounding you. I have gone
through a lot in life so when I write my songs it is not about one
particular genre or gospel, secular or whatever. I can see that what if I
do things like this I write it from my soul and spirit age and I don’t
think that it is good for anyone to ‘boxed’ me into one place because it
may discourage or dampen the spirit of prospective future musicians who
may be confronted with the same issue. I need to encourage such person
that is not the end of life when they faced with such predicament”.
He disclosed this on Kasapa 102.3 FM’s Entertainment show when he
officially launched his latest single from his yet to be released album
entitled ‘Me Ne Wo aaa’ (You and I).
According to Nacee, his current
single talks about love in a low tempo vein which combines multipurpose
instrumentation and other genres like Sasa, Jazz fused with African
beat which drops with a touch of class, a real African rhythm.
He
explained that he developed the concept and the idea from a personal
experience that led to the discovery of ‘Num Nsu’ (Drink Water) song.
“I developed the idea from a personal experience I had so I thought it
wise I can develop it to be used by the tourism sector to use it as a
tourist song to inform and entertain tourist at the same time educate
them about our cultural values about the harmless foods available for
them to eat.
“That is why if my name is mentioned it shouldn’t be restricted to only gospel because I am a musician.
“Our relationship continues to dwindle; everyone thinks he or she is
right even a mere apology to settle scores is nonexistence leading to
changing partners in a least provocation and most of us have become
‘professional prostitutes’ and turn to play the blame game.
“The
respect or the purpose of marriage or becoming husband and wife or
creating a family is no more there it has become fantasies. These days
men or women wants women with huge body, boobs, tall, handsome,
millionaire, cars, fair among other qualities instead of looking for
real and genuine affection. We must show love and appreciate our
partners for whatever contribution they make in our lives. If we go
wrong in our relationship, we don’t need the whole world before we
apologize and show our love. That is the essence of this song and is
gospel in love affairs to tell everybody “Mi Ni Wua”. This song is not
in to fight anybody but to at least let us change our perception,
concerning certain things that we should love one another”.
He said
his type of music is not extraordinary but revolve around contemporary
and indigenous African rhythm where one finds impeccable rolling drum
beats, rhythm, good arrangement and smooth voice over.
His type of
music can be described as a mixture of known genres fused with Afro beat
which can be compared to the works of renowned musicians like Rex Omar,
Angelique Kidjoe, Salif Keita, Yuoussou Ndou among others.
This, he
noted was his reason he finds it difficult to be caged with a
particular genre because he uses such a wide range of influences to
accomplish his good work.
“I have been working on this album for
some time now and it hasn’t been easy. It has been long process of
trying moments to decide what kind of music to do at a given period of
time before help-tune myself to find my rhythm, physically and
metaphorically. In fact a lot of soul-searching that goes into such
project and to establish what I feel comfortable to sing about, say and
the message determines the genre I want to bring out. I don’t only do
gospel but cut across”.He disclosed that he should not be "boxed" or
limited to only one genre of music.
