Reggae superstar Gramps Morgan has said musical preferences should no longer be defined by just one genre due to the fusion of other music classifications.
Speaking on Accra-based Asaase Radio on Sunday (16 October), he said: “If you look at what Stonebwoy is doing with reggae and afrobeats and dancehall, it makes you realise that we need to show more than where we come from and rather show what influences us artistically.”
“If you look at what Sean Paul has done with Latin music and pop music and mixed with reggae and dancehall, if you look at what Shabba Ranks has done with the hip-hop community, mixed with reggae and dancehall, you will understand that music should be genreless,” he added.
According to him, the fusion of other genres is a trend that has existed since decades.
“If you look at what Buchanan has done with hip-hop and dancehall, it’s a trend that has been going on for along time,” the lovers’ rock legend said. “Just know that I am one of the first artistes that is focusing on showing how country music vibrates with reggae music. That is reggae-dancehall system of culture. Even in Ghana people love country music.”
Deeper EP
Gramps Morgan has released a six-track EP, titled Deeper, adding that it “is just an insight of where I am going.”
“This album is just pulling back the layers and letting people really get the change to enjoy. People in Ghana, Jamaica and Europe love these songs. This goes to show you that music should be genreless,” he told the host of Yaad Settingz, King Lagazee.
“My tour was very emotional, and I knew I had to get some things out of my chest. One of the things my father taught me was that it is always different when I sing solo, because it is always special when I work on my solo projects. Where I have reached in life, I am only bringing out the best of myself as a man, an artiste and a singer.
“We should never stop working, that is one of the things I learnt from my father. He taught us never to stop working, so that work ethic has always been there,” the singer of the hit song Wash the tears said.
