I happened to join a Whatsapp group chat created by an x (95.1fm) presenter called Eric. Through this group, I met different kinds of people from different places. Here, I came across a young hip-hop artist called Pagez. Pagez got my attention on an instance when I received an audio from him during a chat session, Listened, and my first word after listening to the song was “WOW!” I was fully impressed by his choice of words in his lyrics.
Pagez, whose
real name is George Ramos Ankrah hails from Anomabo in the Central Region. He took
the name Pagez because to him, Pagez means life. Life consists of different
pages. Today is a page, tomorrow will be another Page. So the name Pagez means
life and according to him, his name reflects in his music. There is life in his music.
George Ramos
Ankrah discovered his music talent when he was young. By then, he used to learn
and rap like the popular hip-life and hip-hop artistes like t-blaze, Obrafour,
Okomfour Kwaadee, and Reggie Rockstone until he begun to create and put down
his own lyrics and do his own rap music. He revealed that his elder brother who
is also a very popular hip-life artist in Ghana, AKOO NANA and other American
hip-hop artistes like Kanye West were the
biggest influence on him.
Pagez begun
doing his own music in 2006-2007, from the JHS entered through the Senior High
School and now, he sometimes organise programmes with his colleagues which
gives him the platform to perform his music.
In an
interview with him he stated, “I chose to do hip-hop because that’s where am
good at and can also express myself with hip-hop better than any other genre of
music. Hip-hop is a culture and I love living in it”. For the number of songs
he has done so far, he can’t count and even some are on the cooking, not ready.
His purpose in music is to stand as a great figure to the public and that the
young ones will also look up to him as he looked up to other people.
He
personally told me that, Ghana Music is growing and he thinks Ghanaians should
embrace it from all aspect equally but not on a particular genre of music. Ghanaians
should also expect good music from Pagez and has promised to take the country
far when he finally gets on his feet.
Go to www.reverbnation.com/pagez to download and listen to this young independent
musician and give me a feedback or prove me wrong when I say he is GOOD. Pagez is GOOD.

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