Gyptian Live In Ghana

The 2010 “Best of the Best” Concert which rocked music fans in Miami, USA had in attendance various Jamaican music heavyweights like COCO TEA, MR VEGAS, LADY SAW, CAPLETON, DEMARCO and the “Golden Voice” GYPTIAN doing the “Hold Yuh” with sexy NIKKI MINAJ.

Tracing it all down history, many Ghanaian Deejays never thought the somewhat “leisure” track titled “Hold Yuh” by Jamaican singjay, GYPTIAN would the highly sought for voice and riddim until it has proved otherwise.

Apart from X-Man of X fm 95.1 in Accra – Ghana who since March 2010 has made overtime airplay on the track, barely would one hear Gyptian’s “Hold Yuh” play on any deejay’s programme. Even radio fans who listened to the track paid less attention to it.

Not until Gyptian’s feature of NICKI MINAJ on “Hold Yuh” which took the whole world by storm. As at now, remix version of the track currently steps beyond 40 globally with features like LADY SAW, STEIN, RICKY BLAZE, ZIONOMI, ROCK CITY, ALANIE, CHINO, SHANI, MIA STOSH, SASHI LAMONT among among.

In Ghana however, the track has won the hearts of many that even non-reggae deejays feature Gyptian’s “Hold Yuh Riddim” at least 3 times in their playlist. About 7 remix versions of the “Hold Yuh Riddim” stemming from Ghana has voices like Sugar Ranking, Stonebwoy Burniton, Nii, Iwan, Trigmatic and others.

GYPTIAN indisputably is the most popular Jamaican artiste in Ghana followed by Busy Signal, Demarco and Serani. SKANKING VYBZ in a tête-à-tête interview with GYPTIAN hours before he mounted stage says, “ I feel honoured being the most popular artiste in Ghana now. To know my music is making hits in a good country such as Ghana is worth rewarding”. According to him, he never knew the hit track would gain so much prominence after it was recorded 2 years ago.

Gyptian currently has 3 albums to his credit; “My Name Is Gyptian” released in December 2006; “I Can Feel Your Pain” released in April 2008: and “Hold Yuh”, his newest album. Gyptian’s real name is WINDEL BENETO EDWARDS, born on October 25, 1983 and grew up in King Weston a Rural District, in St. Andrew – Jamaica.

On doing working with Ghanaian Reggae & Dancehall artistes, GYPTIAN says he is “open to any artiste who would want to feature him on the riddim or work with him on any other track.” He congratulates all Ghanaian deejays for palying his tracks and as well his growing fan base in Ghana which unarguably has about 65% being females.

Meanwhile, information available to SKANKING VYBZ reveals that, a Ghanaian promoter (name with-held) is in talks with GYPTIAN. Are you ready to go watch Gyptian perform on stage here in Ghana any time soon? “ Jus keep yuh eyes pon’ di road, SKANKING VYBZ gwaan surely hit yuh wid di vibes as soon as dem burst yeh”.