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Mar 11

Agyakomah | NYC | Ghana

As a daughter of immigrants, there are many facets and nuisances surrounding culture and how it travels from one physical location to another and through different time periods. As individuals, we are the vessels that keep the culture in a constant state of motion and because of this, it becomes our responsibility to keep it active, for without it we risk having it dwindle away.

Although culture may be experienced and perceived differently in comparison from the original source due to inevitable societal shifts and changes, the experience, value, and essence of said culture still has the ability to remain as long as the individual that it lives in chooses to.

In my two songs, I will discuss the concept of transporting culture both from the perspective of a new immigrant (Take Me There) and the first-generation successor (Afrofusion). Being a first-generation person myself, I wanted to capture sounds that represented that preservation of culture through a new perspective, which is why I made a conscious effort to draw inspiration both from Ghanaian style/sounds and infuse it with my own twist.

Production Credits

Producers
"Take Me There" = Jordan Beatz
"Afrofusion" = KdaGreat

Songwriter
"Take Me There" = Agyakomah
"Afrofusion" = Agyakomah

Engineer
Jordan Jones

Additional Audio Sounds from Ghana by Joakim Lartey

Videography and Director by Jimmy Marseille (a1trilogy) and Agyakomah

Technical Details

shot by cereal boyz @cereal__boyz

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Agyakomah

Music Artist

NYC | Ghana

Agyakomah is an artist-singer-songwriter that utilizes her cultural background and unique upbringing as a young first-generation woman to create music that reflects her story. What she categorizes as Afrofusion, not only represents her West African and R&B/Soul blend, but the outcome of a fusion of different lifestyles, languages, experiences and generational stories that is highlighted in her artistry. Agyakomah pushes boundaries of the African narrative by creating stories reflective of the everyday experiences of young Africans like herself who may reside on or off the continent.

She recently performed alongside artists across the world by participating in the The Great Lockdown Online Music Festival, and has released music consistently throughout the year. Her latest single, “Pay Me What You Owe” calls out employers by detailing the realities of post-grad life, for a young professional and the frustrations behind feeling undervalued. She aims to close out 2020 with the new collaboration and drop of her debut EP.

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