Ghanaian singer, Luigi Maclean has revealed that the ability to compose a beautiful song or write touching lyrics can either be a divine endowment or learned.

According to the singer, not everyone is capable of writing a song.

“First, it’s a gift. Not everyone can write a song. It’s not by force to write a song because someone else did. It’s a gift God gives.”
Luigi Maclean

The Gospel star further noted, “Beyond that, it’s something you can learn to do.”

Luigi said though he can write songs, he has had help with his moving melodies several times.

“In my personal experience, as I have walked with my boss Joe Mettle, every song I’ve written, it comes as an idea or a melody. When I get that, I take it to him,” he said, adding Joe Mettle guides him to shape and get a song properly done.

The ‘Amazing God’ hitmaker said he does that with his Reverb Studios boss “because I know he has the experience”.

He advised musicians who have identified they have the gift of writing to go to people they can trust and who are experienced at this craft of writing and learn from them.

Stressing on “people you can trust,” he gave the impression intellectual property must be guarded at all times.

To buttress his point there is no shame in asking for help to write a song or performing a song entirely written by another musician altogether, Luigi Maclean noted he did not write his new hit ‘Mi Le’.

“Kofi Karkari did,” he said. Luigi arranged ‘Mi Le’, however.

Most Vernacular Songs Are Timeless

Luigi Maclean challenged the notion Gospel musicians who perform in the vernacular are usually crass and lack substance in their lyrics.

He noted that most of the ancient songs are still sung and endure through the ages.

“Most of the songs that endure through the ages, we still sing those ancient songs, and most of them are not in English or foreign languages. It is our own languages, for example, Ga, Twi [and the others]. These songs have lasted so I don’t agree.”
Luigi Maclean

The singer-songwriter was asked to give his opinion on the notion singers who perform in the vernacular are crass, noisy, and empty lyrically.

“Maybe the person [of that opinion] has seen some particular people… But when you see particular people, don’t paint the whole group with that broad brush. No, I don’t agree.”
Luigi Maclean

Luigi Maclean also asserted his ultimate perspective on his music career is “It’s God who has called me to do his work”.

“Five years from now, I’ll still be doing this work, which is preaching God’s word and talking about his truth through the music and gifts he’s given to me. I’ll still be obeying the call I received a long time ago.”
Luigi Maclean

“I believe that success only comes when follow what God has told you to do, so that’s what I do,” the singer-songwriter posited.

Luigi said his rise to fame “has been a process” with “every little part” cumulatively contributing to the story. He, however, admitted that a lot of people came to know him “because of my feature with my boss – Bo Noo Ni [2017]”.

He underscored he started singing in the Winners Chapel Ghana church choir when he was in Mfantsipim Senior High School, Cape Coast, Central Region.

The ‘Mi Le’ hitmaker’s ‘A Thousand Tongues’ (Live) is a tape of 9 songs, Luigi Maclean’s debut album, released on April 9, 2024.