After concentrating on Actors and Actresses for awhile under this column, I thought to myself, “what about the other Ghanaians in the spotlight out there who are contributing to our advancement?” Took me a very short scout to find my next feature-Eric Kwabena Matlock. (This Matlock name reminds me of an old legal drama I used to watch in primary school )
Eric was proudly born in Kumasi, spent a good part of his Childhood in Accra, stared school at Association International School and spent most of his vacations in Awukugua, a village in the mountains of Eastern Region until age 13 when he migrated to the united states in 1983.
Eric didn’t become a musical genius overnight. He probably started before birth because as a baby, he was already beating sounds out of any available pot. And had joined a local band in Accra-Newtown way before he went to the United States. His experimentation with the drums all influenced his present beat style.
Before a song comes out, the singer is not the only talent that works on producing a hit. In fact, you cannot have a song without beat. There is a whole team that goes into the studio and works on sounds and beat to give backing to that perfect song.