Jewel Ackah, a Ghanaian high life musician says he has regretted going into politics. Jewel Ackah was seen in the 2008 parliamentary and presidential elections singing for the NDC in several TV and radio commercials.
Like other musicians who threw their wait for one political party or the other, Jewel publicly declared his support for the NDC party singing at major political events.
Speaking on TV3’s Friday morning entertainment show recently, Jewel said he had a bitter experience after the elections.
He told the host of the show Mutala Mohammed, he has learnt a big lesson from the experience and will not offer himself for that task again although he said he still loves the NDC. Born in the 1945 at Axim in the Western Region of Ghana to Mr. Emmanuel Ackah and Ms. Cecilia Dye, Jewel was picked up by a renowned musician named Ebo Tailor. He started his education at the Axim Roman Catholic Primary and completed in Takoradi in 1963.
Jewel had a career as a footballer and later joined the shipping company called Palm Line.
Realizing that shipping was not his field, he was introduced into a traditional drumming group and within a short time he became the best in the group. He started playing live dance band and played with guys like Elgrand Kwofie, C.K. Mann and Jos Akins as the master of the band.
In 1974 Jewel recorded his first album 'Gyaki Me" in the Nzema dialect which was a hit and won him several awards.
He also sang with Pat Thomas to record the song "False Lover" the same year. Still as a drummer, he joined the famous Sweet Beans Band and through hard work was called to lead the Sweet Talks in Tema.
From there, he made his trip to the US with C.K. Mann. After his trip he also made some single trips to Canada, back to the US and then to Europe. Jewel Ackah has 27 albums to his credit and he is married with six children.
