Winneba Masquerade Festival : The First Party Of The Year In Ghana

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If you want to start your New Year with colour, celebration, and pure energy, there is only one place to be on 1st January, Winneba . While everybody is still sleeping after 31st Night, Winneba is already awake. Drums, brass band, costumes, masks. This is the Winneba Masquerade Festival, locally called Fancy Dress. It is the first major festival in Ghana every year. And it is the second biggest festival in Winneba after Aboakyer. There is a morning in Winneba that does not feel like any other morning in Ghana. By 7am, you can hear it. The brass band far away. The drum, shouting and the crowd. If you are in Winneba on that day, you cannot stay in your room. The sound will drag you out. I remember the first time I followed the sound. I thought something had happened. I thought maybe there was a funeral. But when I reached the road, I saw something I had never seen before. Men wearing masks. Big, colourful, scary, beautiful masks. Some looked like animals. Some looked like old white men ...

Introducing Heath Heathen, The Kansas City Rap Star.

Best  known as a Kansas City native, Heath Heathen has been building his career as a talented rap artist. Since his young age Heath Heathen had a taste for music and entertainment.

 In the late 1990s he started messing around being a lyricist by learning the songs he enjoyed, he saw the “Fat Boys” video in 1986, when he was 5 years old and fell in love with hip hop.

Although Heath had fell in love with hip hop  but hasn’t started doing music until he started hanging out with Negro Scoe who played has played a very important role in Heath Heathen musical career. According to Heath Heathen ,he first wrote his first verse for “Break Em Off Bad”

Heath Heathen

In 2018, Heath Heathen released his first albums titled ‘Pest Control’.Pest control is about exterminating garbage rappers with bad lyrics which  Heath calls 'pest'. The album included  collaboration from Negro Scoe , Z Sonic . Heath Heathen disclosed that he really invested a lot of time into all those records.  

In 2021 Heath proved his consistency by releasing his second album titled’ 'Close Encounter of the Worst Kind'.The album included collaboration with, Negro Scoe, Z Sonic and production from Ganga Beats, Fatt Beats, and many more.Heath believes this album  specifically really helped him hone his raping aqnd writing skills. The 17 track album includes, 'Farmland', 'Arcade', 'Eat your heart out' and other amazing tunes.

As addictive Heath Heathen self-effacing raps worm their way into your brain and refuse to leave. Heath knows how to make you smile.

In an engagement with Heath he revealed that " he doesn't feel like you need to feature someone well known to make good hip hop track" 

Heath Heathen like all great rappers has a great body of work, delivery, clarity,timing storytelling, songwriting, longevity, live performance and rhyme skills.

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