Ghanaian Highlife musician, Kwabena Kwabena, has revealed he experienced periods of severe depression during his life.
Sharing his musical journey, he expressed how such occurrences made him feel like giving up. The artist mentioned how the intensity of the depression made him indulge in certain actions he regrets.
“I’ll share this to inspire every individual out there who’s going through any form of depression or any situation that has actually gotten you to a point where you feel like giving up. Yes, I must confess, there was a period in my life when I went through a serious moment of depression.
“Very serious, I mean, those who are close to me know. I went through it to the extent that certain posts that I made Today, I look at and I ask myself, oh my God, did I make such a post?”
Kwabena Kwabena
He also stated that the phase allowed him to understand the whole concept of life.
“People also read all kinds of meanings into how depression has distorted my figure a little bit. It distorted my looks because I have videos and photos of those days, and I look at photos of recent times. It gives me a clear understanding of what I’ve been through, and it gives me a clear understanding of what depression does.”
Kwabena Kwabena
However, he admonished individuals to be prayerful, while highlighting that it was the key used by his mother to help him out of his depression.
“I will encourage everybody out there that the key to getting out of that situation is only one thing, and it’s prayer. On that note, I would like to say a big thank you to the woman who carried me, my mother. My mother has been a great pillar behind me in terms of prayer.
“She will call me every morning and ask me if I’ve prayed. So, there’s a song on my EP called ‘Enso Nyame Y3’. That song actually is a whole story about everything that I’ve seen in life and how you can always render everything onto God and in His time, He will make things beautiful.”
Kwabena Kwabena
Kwabena Kwabena on Gospel Industry Sabotaging New EP
The Highlife musician claimed to have credible information about a deliberate boycott of his new EP by gospel music circles.
According to the singer, this is an unfortunate situation, but he will not be discouraged.
Kwabena Kwabena attributed the completion of the God of Restoration EP and his musical journey to God.
“I know, apart from even releasing this EP, from a very reliable source, there’s been a purported agenda in the gospel fraternity not to push this EP. I have news for anybody thinking in that manner. I did it to say thank you to the big man up there who has helped me, given me talent to be able to walk this life with, feed my family, and to be able to be Kwabena Kwabena for 20 years or even more of my life.”
Kwabena Kwabena
The artist highlighted that the setting is made to seem as though the gospel fraternity has issues with secular artists attempting to produce gospel tunes.
“It’s very unfortunate, especially in Ghana, after releasing ‘Bie Kwan’, I try very hard not to follow what people are saying. I hear the things. I hear the comments and it looks as if our gospel fraternity even have an issue with ‘a supposed’ secular artist producing a gospel tune and I don’t get it.”
Kwabena Kwabena
However, he believes his new project will be divinely pushed with or without the help of the gospel fraternity.
“You don’t know what God has done for me, so allow me to praise my God. I am praising my God, so if you have a certain caucus called the gospel caucus in Ghana and you have decided not to patronise or push a gospel project by a secular artist, that’s your problem. They can choose not to project it because I didn’t do it for them. That is the news I have for them.”
Kwabena Kwabena
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