DARE ME TO SPEAK ENGLISH - BISA.
Until late last year
when hiplife artiste, Bisa Kdei, spoke in English on Joselyn Dumas’s The One
Show programme on Viasat 1, many people, especially those who had heard him
speak impeccable Twi, assumed that he could not speak English.
The musician said he faced a lot of embarrassment during media interviews at the time his Azonto Ghost song became popular. In almost all the places he was invited to, Bisa Kdei told Showbiz, from English-speaking radio stations to television stations, he was welcomed in the Twi language.
“It was funny, however, how English-language radio stations quickly changed the language to Twi just to make me feel comfortable because they thought I couldn’t speak English. ”Presenters from YFM, Citi FM and Joy FM, who interviewed me would regularly start their interviews in Twi before I told them I preferred to speak in English”, he said.
“I have received a lot of bad comments on my Facebook page from my fans telling me to educate myself in English. But I knew that was because no one had heard me speak English in an interview”. Bisa explained to Showbiz at his Shortcut Studio located in Santa Maria, Accra.
According to Bisa, after he uploaded some videos of interviews he had done in English on his Twitter and Facebook pages, many of his fans and friends began sending him positive messages with many of them congratulating him for being fluent in both English and Twi.
The musician said he faced a lot of embarrassment during media interviews at the time his Azonto Ghost song became popular. In almost all the places he was invited to, Bisa Kdei told Showbiz, from English-speaking radio stations to television stations, he was welcomed in the Twi language.
“It was funny, however, how English-language radio stations quickly changed the language to Twi just to make me feel comfortable because they thought I couldn’t speak English. ”Presenters from YFM, Citi FM and Joy FM, who interviewed me would regularly start their interviews in Twi before I told them I preferred to speak in English”, he said.
“I have received a lot of bad comments on my Facebook page from my fans telling me to educate myself in English. But I knew that was because no one had heard me speak English in an interview”. Bisa explained to Showbiz at his Shortcut Studio located in Santa Maria, Accra.
According to Bisa, after he uploaded some videos of interviews he had done in English on his Twitter and Facebook pages, many of his fans and friends began sending him positive messages with many of them congratulating him for being fluent in both English and Twi.
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