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Celestine Donkor, one of the household names when it comes to gospel music in Ghana is readying to hit the Ghanaian music scene with her second album this December.
She made this revelation in an interview with Myjoyonline.com. She has one album ‘Gye wo deε’, an 11-track album released in 2007 to her credit and hopes to release her second album ‘Wa gye me’ a 10-track album with an initial music video for the title track, ‘Wa gye me’ by the end of the year.
This comes after she released a single, ‘Supernatural’ earlier this year. She said the inspiration of the supernatural track came from this year’s theme of her church, International Central Gospel Church (ICGC).
“I attend ICGC church, Christ Temple, and this year 2009; our theme was ‘Supernatural’. I thought being a member of the church and a talented singer as well; I could put the theme in a song so that people will have it easy to get into the theme. That was the purpose behind the composition of the song ‘Supernatural’,” she said.
She said the song was a personal song to the church not the general public, the public’s interest in the song pushed her to release the song, “I didn’t intend to bring the song out publicly, I did it for the church. But some way somehow, the public rather turned out to like it more. So I decided to release it.”
About the inspiration behind her new album, Celestine says she wants people to know that the only person they can rely on is God, “the only person who we can depend on at all times is God. I believe and hope that by the end of the day those who listen to the album will have a change in their heart about who they actually put their trust in. I believe they will be able to take a decision after listening to the songs on the album,” she said.
She says it has been a childhood dream to do music, “It has been my childhood dream. I started singing at the age of 9. I was recognised in the music scene or showbiz 8 years ago.”
She holds part of her music talent to her family, Elder Gabriel Akakpo and Mrs Hanna Akakpo who are also 'into' music. Her mother helps her with her ewe compositions, “My mother composes a lot. Most of my ewe translations I do, I get support from her.”
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