Musician and entrepreneur, Belinda Nana Ekua Amoah, popularly known as Mzbel, has shared that she wrote her monster hit song, “16 years” in a Taxi.
On 3Music’s Big Conversation where she was a guest, Mzbel said she was riding in a Taxi where she heard a conversation on radio about the girl child and rape by Maame Dokono.
MzBel shared that her experiences on the issue inspired her and she immediately got to writing.
“I was in a taxi when I came Up with the lyrics. I use to stay with alot of girls from James Town, so I watched how they talk and the way they behaved. And Maame Dokono was always on radio talking about rape, so we were in a taxi one day and we were listening to Maame Dokono and I was watching how people were reacting to the stories and I came up with the song (16 years),” she shared.
She added; “So I started writing in the taxi and when I got home, I built on it and that was it.”
When asked if she saw the impact of the song coming, the music diva responded;
“Not at all, I didn’t know it will go outside Ghana, it was just another nice song, but by the next minute it was in Nigeria, Togo and in Equatorial Guinea”.
