Award-winning singer and songwriter, Akwaboah Junior, has remarked that his father played a crucial role in developing his music career.

He recounted that during his childhood days, his father, Akwaboah Senior, used to direct him on what songs to listen to, saying those moments shaped his thoughts and approach to the kind of songs he produces.

Speaking in interview on Prime Morning, Monday, the musician stressed that his father has always been his mentor and very instrumental in the work he does.

“Ever since I’ve been here in Accra, it’s been music all over because dad is not a radio person so he would direct you on the kind of songs to listen to. I grew up with daddy…daddy will be going for trek, now we call it tour, to different regions playing and I’d follow him. So, somehow, I had it in me that I actually wanted to do music,” he told Host, Jay Foley.

The ‘Posti Me’ hitmaker indicated that he is yet to live up to his father’s legacy, adding that there is more to learn from the legend.

“I think it’s a shoe that I’m still trying to fill because when it comes to dad, his ear or his mind for music is still very deep and till date, I still have to do some songs and take to him for his inputs.”

Learning to play music instruments

Akwaboah Junior recalled that it took his personal efforts to learn to play some musical instruments, including the keyboard.

According to him, he never knew how to play them during the times he travelled with his father across the country but an experience in Kumasi forced him to be serious on the keyboard.

“I knew what rhythm was. Right after SHS, I picked it up. I was a rapper in school [and] an instrumentalist before I became an artist. I would say I started [learning to play the keyboard] by myself and daddy continued.”

“Way back in Kumasi at the church, there was no keyboardist and the keyboard was there so I had to teach myself…and they were all on me, they forced me because they thought daddy was so good.”