Other DJs should be given the opportunity to
display
Too much of everything, they say is bad which
practically nobody disagrees.
So is a career without
the contributions and support of other knowledgeable
persons, will be a one-man business and only develop
to his or her favor which exactly is going on in with
the DJs in Ghana.
Talk of DJs/Turntablers in Ghana, there is quite a
huge number of them but how many of them do we
see billed to play on big shows except for DJ Black
aka Tumtum who is always made the headlined DJ on
such shows.
One may conclude that ‘wo ton wo yare a, na wo nya
ho eduro’ (when you discuss your problem with
people, you are likely to gain solutions to them) but
in the case of our DJs, we always hear them play on
Radio and in Nite Clubs; do we say they are not good
and marketable enough to play on such shows?
Indeed DJ Black has worked tirelessly to create a
niche for himself onto the DJ Maps across Africa
and beyond therefore gains more gigs to play on but
then again, what happens to DJs the public, media
and event organizers know are very good as well yet
never gets to be billed to play such on such shows
except for our one and only DJ Black?
Undergoing a thorough ‘ground-works’ in some Nite
Clubs, Radio as well as Mobile DJs in the industry, it
revealed quite an interesting number of Turntablers
names who can very well be compared to DJ Black in
terms of mixes although they all have their
specialties which included Killa Fingers, DJ Perfekt,
DJ Minor, DJ Advicer, DJ Mic Smith, DJ Slim, DJ
Yellow man, DJ Wobeti, DJ Master J, DJ Mensah, DJ
Champagne, DJ Abrantie, DJ Vision and DJ Kess.
And
Oh! DJ Lalu, a few to mention.
Yet all these DJs never get the chance to display
their in-depth talent on major events organized in
the country. Well, one may conclude that the rest
are not putting in much efforts to complete their
‘home works’ nonetheless we sit back and appraise
them for playing good mixes at their respective
stations and further ask for their names.
If not for God’s intervention that Mercury Republic,
organizers of Ghana DJ Awards came up with such a
brilliant concept to reward DJs for their ‘highlight
contributions they have made to the music
distribution & promotion by playing on radio,
endorsing & putting songs out to be enjoyed by the
masses’, who would have made it a point to reward
them although the award ceremony had its own
hitches during its maiden edition?
DJ Black is undoubtedly Ghana’s finest DJ and the
Top role model to most DJs but will he have done this
without some of these DJs finding interest in
pursuing Disc Jockey (DJ) as a career or a hobby?
It is high time these DJs also come out of their shells
and market their brands so as to enable event
organizers bill them on their shows.
Source: Ama Larbie
