Ben Adu is out to save lives with music and medicine

As someone in the medical field, Ben Adu appreciates the important role medicine plays in healing the sick, but as a gospel musician, he knows words are equally powerful for the well being of individuals.

Ben Adu is out with a new single, ‘W’ahye Me bo (He has promised me) and it features one of the veterans of Ghanaian gospel musicians, Great Ampong.

The native of Fawoade in the Ashanti Region started out as a Gospel musician first before ending up as a Physician’s Assistant but has been able to combine the two because to him, both are all forms of healing.

It’s been almost two decades of doing music (with three albums) and practising as a Physician Assistant at the SDA Hospital in Agona Asamang and Ben Adu says, he is fulfilling his “destiny calling”.

“Personally, I think that a doctor and a musician have a similar calling which is to heal. While medicine heals physically, music heals the soul, and so both improve the well-being of people,” he said.

The 10-track album has songs such as ‘W’ahye Me Bo’, ‘Unmerited Favour’, I’ Was nobody, Lift Me Up’, ‘Awurade Soma’, ‘YehiaWo’, ‘Bribiara Enso No Ye’, ‘Ex-Life’ and ‘Mighty God.’

Real name, Benjamin Adobofour, he nurtured his talent by performing at various churches before joining the music industry in 2000 with his first album and he says his goal is “to preach Christ”.

Ben Adu is certainly not alone on this path. Reggae artiste, Dr Knii Lante of the Trust Hospital has been combining his duties as a medical doctor with music, while gospel sensation, Diana Hamilton is also on the same path in the UK.