Bisa Kdei
Highlife musician, Bisa Kdei, has described himself as one of the best songwriters, saying he is sometimes amazed by the depth of his own lyrics when he listens to his recordings.
The ‘Mansa’ hitmaker said some of his compositions are so layered that even he struggles to fully interpret their meanings long after writing them.
In an interview on Hitz FM, he cited his song ‘Samina’ as an example of a composition that still surprises him.
“Recently I even said I am the best songwriter because sometimes I listen to myself and I’m like, ‘Oh wow, so I really wrote this?’ A song like ‘Samina’, even I can’t really decode the song properly because I really wrote that song,” he said.
His comments followed observations by the interviewer that his Twi songs often feature metaphors and storytelling that require listeners to pay close attention to their meaning.
Bisa Kdei described himself as a storyteller but revealed that Twi was not the first language he grew up speaking.
He said he was born and raised in Labadi among Ga-speaking people, which influenced his fluency in Ga, while his father encouraged him and his siblings to speak Larteh at home.
“I am a storyteller, but one thing too is that I don’t even speak Twi properly. I was born amongst Gas. I was born in Labadi, so I speak Ga very well and I’m from Larteh,” he explained.
He added that his mother frequently spoke Ga with them, while his father insisted that they also learnt and spoke Larteh.