Amapiano is a style of house music that emerged in South Africa, however, being upgraded by Nigerian musicians, according to Stonebwoy. The 34-year-old made this remark while discussing the origin of Afrobeats.<\/p>\n
Stonebwoy noted that the Afrobeats documentary by Nigerian music business executive, Ayo Sonaiya, couldn\u2019t have been wrong about Afrobeats originating from Ghana because he believed he conducted his research properly before going public with the facts.<\/p>\n
The Sony Music musician held, in an interview with TheCable Lifestyle, that inasmuch as Ghana should be credited for creating Afrobeats, Nigeria should be acknowledged for popularising the genre of music.<\/p>\n
Stonebwoy said, \u201cIf it was a Ghanaian saying it, then I\u2019d think it can be up for a debate a little bit but I think Ayo would not do research over the years of his contribution in the industry to share with Africans and fellows all over the world any form of lies.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis doesn\u2019t create any form of competition. It\u2019s all about education and level of understanding that primarily we share a lot of historical records, we are the same people.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf its stems from Ghana, I think credit should be given to those brothers where it stems from. If it rolls to the highest of heights by Nigerians, we also have to acknowledge the fact that it\u2019s our other sister who has done this. That\u2019s the kind of mentality we need to have.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m proud to be a Ghanaian and to date, it is very obvious that there are several other people across the continent who create different stuff that Nigeria as a brother sells better. Like the new Amapiano \u2013 most Amapiano sound that we\u2019re really enjoying come out from Nigeria. And the Afrobeats has opened so much so that it contains anything and any kind of inspiration of today.<\/p>\n
\u201cBasically, there is a lot of education to be done, so we all understand that it\u2019s instead an umbrella representation of Africans than a particular region. There are different spices from different places that come to form today\u2019s Afrobeats that we are proud of.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Multiple award-winning Ghanaian music sensation Stonebwoy has credited Nigerian musicians for creating enjoyable Amapiano songs. Amapiano is a style of house music that emerged in South Africa, however, being upgraded by Nigerian musicians, according to Stonebwoy. The 34-year-old made this remark while discussing the origin of Afrobeats. Stonebwoy noted that the Afrobeats documentary by Nigerian […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":98003,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"source_name":"","source_url":"","via_name":"","via_url":"","override_template":"0","override":[{"template":"custom","single_blog_custom":"94000","parallax":"1","fullscreen":"1","layout":"double-sidebar","sidebar":"single-left","second_sidebar":"default-sidebar","sticky_sidebar":"1","share_position":"top","share_float_style":"share-monocrhome","show_share_counter":"1","show_view_counter":"1","show_featured":"1","show_post_meta":"1","show_post_author":"1","show_post_author_image":"1","show_post_date":"1","post_date_format":"default","post_date_format_custom":"Y\/m\/d","show_post_category":"1","show_post_reading_time":"1","post_reading_time_wpm":"300","show_zoom_button":"0","zoom_button_out_step":"2","zoom_button_in_step":"3","show_post_tag":"1","show_prev_next_post":"1","show_popup_post":"0","number_popup_post":"1","show_author_box":"0","show_post_related":"0","show_inline_post_related":"1"}],"override_image_size":"0","image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"crop-500","single_post_gallery_size":"crop-500"}],"trending_post":"0","trending_post_position":"meta","trending_post_label":"Trending","sponsored_post":"0","sponsored_post_label":"Sponsored by","sponsored_post_name":"","sponsored_post_url":"","sponsored_post_logo_enable":"0","sponsored_post_logo":"","sponsored_post_desc":"","disable_ad":"0"},"jnews_primary_category":{"id":""},"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[682,3709,596,4876],"class_list":["post-97980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music","tag-afrobeats","tag-amapiano","tag-nigeria","tag-stonebwoy"],"yoast_head":"\n