Danny: A great man by all standards

Daniel Tetteh Nettey was born on September 19, 1968 to Mr. Emmanuel Nakai Nettey (deceased) and Mrs. Beatrice Nettey. He was the third of seven children and the first boy.

He attended the Institute of Divine Education (Shalom Shalom), Korle Gonno and then to Accra Academy where he had his ‘O’ and ‘A’ Level education.

Danny began playing the piano at the tender age of six and writing short songs without any formal training. He used empty milo and milk tins as instruments. He continued with his love for music through elementary school and through high school.

At Accra Academy, Danny rose through the ranks of the school’s Scripture Union as a member to become Music Director and then President. During the same period he held the position of School Prefect. 

He was a brilliant science student but his love for God and worship truncated the vision his parents and siblings have envisaged for him becoming a medical doctor. For our ways are not God’s ways.

While in Accra Academy he joined a Gospel group known as Comeback Incorporated where he met Tom Bright-Davies (now Reverend) and the legendary Zap Mallet with whom he developed his passion to minister in music. 

This evangelism-centred group of young talented musicians went about ministering the gospel in songs in secondary schools.

Beside the group’s activities, Danny also began composing songs and occasionally ministering them in his local church. This was the beginning of a great ministry that was to touch so many lives in Ghana and around the world.

In 1995, Minister Nettey released his solo debut album Positive Change. A year later, “Danny Nettey and Pals” released Friends in Ministry, another classic album that caught on with many Charismatic churches in Ghana.

The album also gracefully aided the birth of another fold of Danny’s Ministry, It’s About Time (IAT) Productions” - a record label, gospel music training and development and live music productions Centre. 

In 2001, Danny Nettey released his second solo album, My All to You, with tracks such as I am the Lord I Will Worship You, Adom and Hwe Yie.

The year 2006 saw his third solo album, I Believe - a two-CD album.  Danny released his fourth album, As We Worship You, in 2014. In addition to these albums he also released a lot of hit singles.

 Danny has also honoured and headlined many major concerts in Europe and the United States of America, sharing the dais with many gospel greats such as Alvin Slaughter, Don Moen, Lionel Petersen, Ron Kenoly, Ron Winans (of the famous gospel-singing Winans family), Kirk Franklin and Israel Houghton. 

The growth of Danny’s ministry is partly owed to collaborations over the years with other gospel groups and ministers; learning from them and also teaching them what he had acquired along the line. Ministries like Da Project, Monarch’s Praise, Gospel Explosion and Joyful Way Incorporated have featured Minister Nettey in their programmes.

The annual Christmas day concert in Accra, Ghana, dubbed Christmas with Danny Nettey and Friends has always been a must-attend concert.

It has served as a platform for Ghana’s anointed music ministers – Ps. Helen Yawson, Nii Okai, KODA, Kings Jubilee, Ike Nanor, Joe Mettle and many others -who gather to lead many in worship and praise.

Testimonies from this yearly concert have kept the concert going for over 11 years now as many people get saved and are ministered to.