Efya or Jane

This lady is someone I am beginning notice these days even without trying. Efya (Jane Awindor) was the second runner up of the first season of stars of the future reality show with Irene Bertha Logan being the winner. They worked together after the show but later split and then Irene joined the Lynx crew.
Most of you don’t know but Efya is the daughter of Nana Adwoa Awindor, the popular host of Greetings from Abroad. Efya attended Yaa Asantewaa High School and then later Legon.
Now to Efya’s music career in Ghana, she is simply sensational. Her work with Sarkodie – in love with you- is possibly an award winner. She was featured in paedae’s freestyle- tema motor motorway and she is doing a great job. She did not win any award in the 2010 GMAs but with the input she is making this year it’s most likely she is going to win a promising number of awards next year.
She also did the theme song for the Adam’s apples movie chapter 2- sexy sassy wahala. Efya is capable of sweeping the African waves like other artistes such as asha, 2face and femi kuti of Nigeria have done. It’s just a matter of time. Is it not a pride to Ghana that such talent is evolving? Right from Amakye Dede, Dr Paa Bobo, the Akyeame group and now gradually to the likes of Irene, Jane (now Efya), Richie, Sarkodie, R2bees, Samini … you name them. Ghanaian music just dey bee k33k33.

going forward

been listening to a few local tracks over the months and am saying to myself "ghanaian is not that bad". i used to love hip-hop so much i didnt know who most of the ghanaian artistes were. Now i dont need to be told like D-Chryme. Talking of talent, D-Black was nominated for BEST INTERNATIONAL ACT (AFRICA) at the 2011 BET awards. Thats one great work there. Ghanaian music is actually not static. we are going somewhere. with some musicians doing everything from vodoo to honestly working hard i think we are getting results (not to say that it is right to have 'juju' working in ghanaian music industry). r2bees and v.i.p are now working their way through in the nigerian music market. at this moment i am listening to paedae's motorway freestyle featuring efya. that is some concsious rap there. have you listened to sarkodie lately? that guy is working really hard and from where i stand he deserves what he has earned. from every direction things are working good to some extent in the ghanaian music industry from king ayisoba to daddy opanka to mr reggie rockstone-the hip-life grandpapa. respect to ghanaian music and musicians.