The Chief Executive Officer of Slip Music, Mark Okraku Mantey has disclosed that he used to be a DJ at funerals before his secondary school education at St.Augustine’s College. He said his late father used to offer him the gigs to play music at funerals. Mr Mantey recalled that he played songs at the age of 13-14 during the school’s entertainment […]
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The Chief Executive Officer of Slip Music, Mark Okraku Mantey has disclosed that he used to be a DJ at funerals before his secondary school education at St.Augustine’s College.
He said his late father used to offer him the gigs to play music at funerals.
Mr Mantey recalled that he played songs at the age of 13-14 during the school’s entertainment shows.
Speaking with Kwabena Anokye Adisi popularly called ‘Bola Ray’ on Starr Chat, he said he can still play music but he does not get offers from event organisers.
‘…I was the first in form three to have been allowed to spin/play music at entertainment. I used to play at funerals even before I went to secondary school, around that time it was tapes, we used to call it cassettes, that was the only one you can afford, before tapes we had eight tracks that looked like video tapes, my father used to play it in his car and then it changed to records…my daddy asked me to play at one or two programmes and he realised that I could play, so when somebody had funerals he would say Mark wont you play for my friend, and he had the gadgets, until my mother said it was ok so we stopped,’ the entertainment critic reminisced.
He said his slip record is now into events than production saying it pays to produce saying album business is dying in Ghana even in the western world.
The man who has been tagged Ghana’s Simon Cowell said Oheneba Kessi was his biggest artiste in terms of sales followed by the late Daasebre Dwamena.
By: Ghana/Ultimatefmonline.com/106.9FM
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