Posted: Monday, July 28, 2008     Source: Angel Fm

Breaking News; Michael Dwamena passes on

Multi-talented musician, Michael Dwamena, whose works span highlife and hiplife hits and noted for his sleek voice, has been reported dead.

Reports from the US indicate that Michael Dwamena the owner of the Ngozi title is dead.

He died at a Texas hospital in the early hours of Monday. He had complained of a stomach upset.

The ace musician who has created a niche for himself as top star in hiplife music, highlife and rock recently flew out of the country after touching down to trash out issues relating to his music agenda.

His managers said he was in the country to finish up works on his video clip and the launch of his latest album “owo mo ntsi” literary translated a kind of way.

The report of his death has already reached his family who are yet to visit the States to bring home the corpse for burial.

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Michael who few years back has been irresistibly driven into the terrain of gospel rendition and recorded a gospel album ‘Prayer’ the third album of his collection has expressed his impression with the growing high level of our music industry, although he has been noted for secular music.

The virtuous impact of family influence of home training largely has been a dominant and creative force in coming out with “Prayer”. This recording unbelievably has been amazingly unique and attracted acceptance by his fans in the states.
This success, critics see as a feature of his spiritual growth, has promoted and excited his personality.

It has also attributed this to the spreading of his wings into not only spiritual commitments but has also marked a high level of sophistication in his musical arrangement.

At home the album ‘Prayer” would ever remain a tribute stuff to immortalise the late young Terry Bonchaka who featured in the first and third tracks on the album.

Michael seems to be in his own world considering flavours of innovations and compliments of decorations in his live performance as a bassist, dancer and singer as he frills crowd in Europe and America.

Noted for his hiplife tunes like ‘Tibidi’ ‘Christie’, his music becomes a toast for local Ghanaian youthful fans. He has had a glittering and eventful music career and caused a stir on the Zimbabwe music charts with his even classic “Ice cream man’.