| About KAD STUDIO BELGIUM | Nana Dankwa, who is commonly known as an all-round artist making music,oil paintings,acrylic wall paintings, ceramic & wood sculptures, metal castings, theatre, scripts, designing and directing performance with special effect in Belgium and across Europe, is back with a mind blowing album entitled SHOW AM CARE. Nana Dankwa was born in Kumasi, Ghana in the early 80's and studied Art at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology. In Belgium where he lives, he began teaching art workshops in many educational institutions through which he gained his popularity. He also studied at Juabeng Secondary & Kumasi High school in the Ashanti region of Ghana. Azonto, the new dance craze which popped onto the Ghanaian music scene and has been making waves across West Africa and beyond over the past year, is paving a genuine way for Nana Dankwa to exhibit his cultural knowledge. "There is an evolution in every culture," he says... "to me Azonto is a dance form by which the youth express themselves. Many have their own definition when it comes to Azonto, but it really doesn't matter; what is of importance is to let people all over the world recognizes it, and that is exactly what I am doing." "As a cultural and an art teacher, I did my own research when I first heard of the Azonto and added this dance form to the other traditional dances that I teach in schools. Amazingly, after I uploaded my first video on YouTube, I had over 40,000 views. This made me understand people really like what I did. The second step was to make my own tracks, to avoid copyrights and with creativity I was able to come up with a CD, which was featured by Rebbel Ashes and recorded at KAD Studios, Antwerp-Belgium, and mastered by Willys-Willys studio in Amsterdam. It is Azonto that made me a singer by force." and gained the name AzoTee aka Azonto teacher. To the Europeans, Azonto isn't just any sort of entertainment as the Ghanaians themselves see it. It is to them a form of unity, expression and on top of it all, fitness. Some say to me "you are of age, why don't you grow up and leave it to the youth?" But frankly speaking, dance has no limit to age. It's a great exercise and it's time people have to start dancing for health benefits as anti-age antidote. Written by E-ly A.Sweetz/Haswilly |
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