Tumi Ebow Ansa, a veteran Ghanaian musician, has disclosed that he is the original composer of Osibisa’s ‘Welcome Home’ and four other songs released by the Afro-rock band but he has never been credited for his works.
Speaking in an interview with Mutombo the Poet on the ‘If More, Let’s Divide’ podcast, Tumi, also an actor, said working with Osibisa was an experience he usually shudders to talk about.
“You know, Osibisa is an area that I really don’t feel comfortable.
Because I was in an experience that I had never seen before. I was young, I was very eager, I was free because I was on TV, films and the music too so when Osibisa came and out of the blue picked me up and took me to Tunisia, it was an adventure. I thought, fine. But we didn’t have a song between us. When we arrived there we had to go for audition. It was my song that we rehearsed quickly to go and get a job,” he said.
He disclosed that he wrote songs like ‘Welcome Home’, ‘Woyaya’, ‘Oranges’, and ‘The Dawn.’
Tumi also said that he was playing with his band called Afro Deity before Osibisa came for him, but he didn’t know they had an ulterior motive for recruiting him into the band.
Credit: myjoyonline.com
