If you saw kirk Franklin perform and liked it, shut up

Young and affable pastor, Azigiza Jnr. has taken Ghanaians to the cleaners. He said Ghanaians are quick to judge any gospel musician in Ghana who sings a pop song, tagging him or her to have ‘fallen’ but they are the same people who trooped to watch Kirk Franklin perform at the Perez Dome last weekend.

“Truth be told, there is some form of hypocrisy among Ghanaians. All the people who went to the Perez Dome are Christians and Ghanaians who love good music but they are the same people who would condemn it should a Ghanaian sing hiphop gospel music, so what are we saying?” Azigiza told Peace FM Entertainment Review show host, Kwasi Aboagye.

According to Pastor Azigiza, any gospel song which is produced in Ghana under the hiphop genre receives little or no patronage because Ghanaians  expect you to walk, talk and sing in a certain way if you are a gospel musician.

“Some time ago, when I did my first gospel, it had rap and hiphop grooves in it. In Ghana, we could not even sell a single copy but we sold so much when I went to the US. The reason being that the culture of the people over there is such that they embrace modernity,” he noted.

He said that most Ghanaians suffer what he calls the “Saul” syndrome. Explaining, Pastor Azigiza said that “when they see a David coming, they either want to kill him or reject him. To most people, if you try something new with gospel music, then they say it is not from God.”

“In Ghana, the norm is that gospel music must be sorrowful, the gospel musician should also be broke and have this abnormal humility,” he said.

Meanwhile Pastor Azigiza endorsed Kirk Franklin’s style of music stating that “what Kirk Franklin does is 100 percent gospel music. If you want to analyse Kirk’s music then we will have to look at the music outside the box. Also we have to take into consideration the culture of the people he does the music for.”

“I can tell you on authority that what Kirk Franklin is doing is music and it is also gospel – which is the good news. So he marries the sound and the lyrics with the spirit of God.”

Credit: GhanaGist News