Tune Your World

Do you believe we can change the world through music?

Featured here is Calabash music's effort to support African music and musicians by getting users to buy 10 songs by African Artists .

The Ghanaian music scene was dominated by musicians singing in Twi until the emergence of people like Nat Brew, King David, Buk Bak and Tinny who perform in Ga. Groups from southern Ghana have enjoyed the most radio airplay and even matched their northern counterparts boot for boot in Tamale, Bolgatanga and Wa. It's about time, we had musicians from the north headlining the acts for major events in Accra, Kumasi and Takoradi. It seems that is just about to happen.

For a longtime, musicians from northern Ghana made it through reggae and not other genres. Rocky Dawuni is one of Ghana's biggest musicians, scoring hits like 'In Ghana' and performing to thousands of people during Independence day celebrations. He had a pretty good video too. Sheriff Ghale has been reggae's torchbearer and some of his tracks are Election Time and Sochira. They are just a number of other reggae musicians with northern names.

Atongo Zimba has gained a lot of international recognition but is not as popular within Ghana. He plays the koliko, a musical instrument. He is one of the few new Ghanaian musicians on Calabash music with a presence on the web. His song, 'In heaven, there's no beer' made it to the Ghana Music awards. The song has some funny lyrics and the same people who listen to Otoolege, Konkontibaa and Rakia are listening to it. His Savannah Breeze has already reached Accra and beyond.