Celestine Donkor
Gospel musician, Celestine Donkor, is one of the Ghanaian gospel musicians gradually gaining prominence on the international music scene.
The gospel artiste, who has gained much exposure in South Africa, explained that one of the things she was bent on doing was not to only evangelize through music, but to also sell the Ghanaian culture to the outside world.
According to her the use of the Ewe language in her songs is to make her style unique.
“The Ewe language is a very unique and beautiful Ghanaian language. I love singing in Ewe because I want to be identified as an African minstrel and also to project our language which is part of our culture,” she told citinewsroom.com.
Apart from the Ewe language, Celestine also sings in English and other Ghanaian languages including Twi.
“I am a versatile brand. I sing in English and a couple of Ghanaian languages. The Ewe language I use, adds some sort of uniqueness to my songs. I believe you don’t need to be a speaker of a language to love it. We sing and play Nigeria songs here even with some other native vocabularies and we enjoy them. So I am personally determined to persuade my fans to love the ewe language and appreciate that as my African and Ghanaian identity,” she said.
Speaking about how people who don’t understand Ewe would get the message in her Ewe songs she noted that subtitles also helped with translations so there was never a dull moment with her Ewe songs.
Some of Celestine Donkor’s songs are ‘Agbebolo’, ‘Edem’, ‘Enyonyoge Kokooko’, ‘Morxwula’ (way maker cover) and Elolo looo.
On May 19, 2020, which was her birthday, Celestine Donkor released a new video titled, ‘Belongs to You’, another song done predominantly in Ewe.
‘Belongs to You’ features South African Joyous Celebrations hitmaker, Mkhululi Bhebhe.
The song was recorded at a live concert in South Africa.
She recently won Gospel Song of the Year award with ‘Agbebolo’, which features Nhyiraba Gideon, at the 3Music Awards.