Entertainment of Thursday, 27 January 2005

Source: kwame adjetia, njoyonline.com

Obour?s Konkontiba Is The Best In The Diaspora

The hit track on his 2004 album Atumpan, Obour came out as the favorite of our listeners, the number one internet radio in the world Njoyonline.com.

In a just ended poll to climax the year 2004, listeners worldwide were asked to choose their favorite songs out of selected hip-life hits, the poll which started as far back as early 2004, at the end of it all it was tic-tac?s fefe ne efe which featured Nigeria?s rap icon tony tetula and Obuor?s konkontiba despite it?s late entry in the polls.

At the end of the poll, Out of 23092 entries registered on our website Tic-tac had 11490 votes representing 44.8% with Obuor winning with 11602 votes as 55.13% with 6-9 and 8-5 votes respectively.

Since age, 1, Bice Osei Kuffour has been very adventurous, daring and untouchable. If you hit him with stick, run for your life because he would respond with a stone [Twi meaning for 'Obour']. And as if a character transplant, that was the exact lifestyle of his late grand dad, Nana Kwesi [O]Buor; hence Bice's showbiz name. "They say I did most of the things my grand dad did", says Obour.

He was born at 'Braha Bebu Me' (Dekyemenso) in the Ashanti Region on November 7, 1981 to Christiana Addo and reverend B.O Kuffour. Of his seven sibblings, all his sisters and even his mother sung in the church At six, he played most of the drums especially the Atumpan in the Juaso-Ashanti Akyem chief's palace where his father used to preside over before accepting Christ. According to him, that inspired him a lot, lyrically. now a student of the prestigeous ghana,s premiier university ,legon persuing a degree course obour,s third album became an instant hit with the konkonti baa album which has sold more than any album ever made by Ghanaian hiplife star,culminating it,s wide airplay on both radio and internet radio in the diaspora .