Azonto Music

After his visit to Ghana on March 5th 2013, American multi talented star

Chris Brown stated on BET 106 and Park that the Azonto dance came

from Nigeria and WizKid the up coming singer is the one who made it up.

Azonto Ghanaian ghetto slang for "ugly" or "bush". Along it’s meaning

comes with dance moves that have its origin. It is more of an expressive

style of dancing whereby dancer expresses what he/she does or tries

to communicate through the dance moves he/she makes. It has been

in existence for a while in but was recently popularized by Ghanaian

musician Gazmilla came out with his son Aboodatoa and rapper Sarkodie

in his hit song "You go kill me".

Ghana is the land of rhythm and music. In everything we do music is

involved. Celebrations of birth or death we are singing and dancing the

music is in us. Even in the market place sellers are singing "ice water ooo

2cedis" Ghanaians love music and dancing. It all started with ET Mensah

laying his heart out in music. Highlife was introduced to the colonial whites

that settled in Ghana and incorporated it to their nightclub music and

added instruments.

The drums, comes from the forest where the roots of music started with

Osibisi and CK Man. Today Ghana music has expanded from highlife to

hiplife, which started with Reggie Rockstone who incorporated American

hip-hop to highlife. With Azonto being, the new trend in the Ghanaian

music system is making it way all over the world now. Everywhere you

go you see people doing and singing Azonto and we all know once a

Ghanaian music is playing we don't want to turn it off.

Signed, Senator Alimatu  Asumah