One of Ghana’s most read entertainment newspaper reports that Daddy Lumba’s latest hit, Aben Wo Ha ” is making major sales.
The paper has it that an Accra taxi driver’s narration of how he came to buy a copy of the cassette speaks volumes about people’s morbid affection for the song. According to the ‘cabbie’ three men hired, his taxi for six hours in the middle of February .He claimed that the moment they took off they asked him if he had Lumba’s song.
When he replied in the negative, the three men are reported to have threatened to get down to find another car with the cassette. According to the report he pleaded with them to allow him, buy one. This was said to have satisfied them and he says “At the end of it all I made big money. Now I play Aben Wo Ha everyday in my car.”
The cassette is said to have hit an all time level in London. All high life discs in the British Capital are alleged to sell for ?10 per copy, but “Aben Wo Ha” costs ?30.
Meanwhile, the management of Despite Music Productions, distributors of Daddy Lumba’s hit album are styled as having presented a quantity of compact discs of the album to the victorious Black Satellites team and their Nigerian counter parts Flying Eagles.
The tune became the unofficial song of the Ghanaian team the Satellites at the just ended Under-20 African Cup Tournament held in Accra.
The Graphic Show biz also reports that the Miss Lux Universe pageant that has already been postponed once because the public claimed they were undecided, about who deserved it’s nomination, will be held at an Accra venue tomorrow.
The report says the winner of the competition, the first of it’s kind as a joint pageant between Lux Beauty Pageant and Miss Universe, will pick up two tickets -a Ghana Airways ticket to the U.S.A and an American Airlines ticket to participate in the 48th Miss Universe pageant to be held in Trinidad and Tobago.
