Only Efya Showed Up After I Invited 5 Artist To Be Featured On My Album – Kwabena Kwabena

Multiple award-winning Highlife artiste Kwabena Kwabena has revealed his disappointment in some of his industry colleagues who turned down an invitation to feature on his upcoming album.

According to him, after sending out personal invites and doing a series of follow up calls personally, he decided to close the album, as 4 out of the 5 artistes he reached out to, failed to respond to his request because he was directed to speak with the managers of this colleagues.

Kwabena Kwabena stated that the lack of respect for each other is a great hindrance to the growth of artistes in the industry because when someone respect you, it is unfair to be disrespectful to that people.

Speaking to Joy Prime’s Ibrahim ben-Bako in an interview, he stated that he sent them the songs and even spoke to their managers. Unfortunately, with the exception of Efya, none of them came through after all that he did personally.

"It is very unfortunate. I sent the song to them, I placed personal phone calls to them and I followed up. It gets to a point where these artistes are making me talk to their managers, when I have spoken to them personally.”

“It is unfortunate because I have 13 tracks and I couldn’t have done it all as a solo artiste so I invite five people just one person showed up, That was Efya. Its been like six months, so I had to close the album and leave them out.”

The ‘Bye Bye’ hitmaker advised the artistes he invited before they didn't showed up to learn to inculcate an attitude of humility and respect as necessary tools in the industry.

Surprisingly, the artiste slated the release date of his incoming album on October 17th which falls on his birthday.

Story by Dodzi Deku