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Stonebwoy explains how Nigerian artists helped to popularise Amapiano.
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Stonebwoy credits Nigerian artists for the popularity of Amapiano and Afrobeat
Stonebwoy has given praise to Nigerian musicians for producing and creating catchy Amapiano and Afrobeat songs.
According to Stonebwoy, the house music genre known as Amapiano originated in South Africa but has since been improved upon by musicians from Nigeria. This comment was made by the 34-year-old when addressing the origins of Afrobeats.
Stonebwoy stated that the Afrobeats documentary by Nigerian music industry executive, Ayo Sonaiya, could not have been incorrect about Afrobeats having its roots in Ghana because he thought he had done his study correctly before making the information public.
In an interview with TheCable Lifestyle, the Sony Music musician stated that while Ghana should be credited with inventing Afrobeats, Nigeria should be credited with popularising the genre.
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Stonebwoy said,
“If it was a Ghanaian saying it, then I’d think it can be up for a debate a little bit but I think Ayo would not do research over the years of his contribution in the industry to share with Africans and fellows all over the world any form of lies.
“This doesn’t create any form of competition. It’s all about education and level of understanding that primarily we share a lot of historical records, we are the same people.
“If its stems from Ghana, I think credit should be given to those brothers where it stems from. If it rolls to the highest of heights by Nigerians, we also have to acknowledge the fact that it’s our other sister who has done this. That’s the kind of mentality we need to have.
“I’m proud to be a Ghanaian and to date, it is very obvious that there are several other people across the continent who create different stuff that Nigeria as a brother sells better.
Like the new Amapiano – most Amapiano sound that we’re really enjoying come out from Nigeria. And the Afrobeats has opened so much so that it contains anything and any kind of inspiration of today.
“Basically, there is a lot of education to be done, so we all understand that it’s instead an umbrella representation of Africans than a particular region. There are different spices from different places that come to form today’s Afrobeats that we are proud of.”