Bisa Kdei Declares Himself Ghana's Finest Songwriter

Bisa Kdei

Ghanaian highlife star Bisa Kdei has boldly crowned himself among the finest composers in the country.

The Mansa creator made the declaration during a conversation on Hitz FM, admitting that his own catalogue occasionally leaves him stunned.

According to him, certain records carry such profound lyricism that revisiting them feels like discovering another person’s work.

He singled out Samina as a track that continues to baffle him years after its creation.

Recently I even said I am the best songwriter because sometimes I listen to myself and I’m like, Oh wow, so I really wrote this? A song like Samina, even I can’t really decode the song properly because I really wrote that song, he confessed.

The discussion emerged after the host noted how his Twi compositions often employ rich imagery and narratives demanding deep attention from audiences.

Bisa Kdei embraced the storyteller tag, yet disclosed a surprising detail about his linguistic background.

Despite his mastery of Twi lyrics, the language was not his childhood tongue.

I am a storyteller, but one thing too is that I don’t even speak Twi properly. I was born amongst Gas. I was born in Labadi, so I speak Ga very well and I’m from Larteh, he revealed.

He explained that his upbringing in Labadi, a Ga community, shaped his fluency in Ga, while his father ensured Larteh remained spoken inside their household.

His mother, he added, regularly conversed with the children in Ga, whereas his father insisted on preserving their Larteh heritage at home.