Nana Poku Ashis, manager of highlife musician Kwabena Kwabena, has urged Charterhouse, organisers of Telecel Ghana Music Awards (TGMA) to lead a planning of a national event to celebrate the late Daddy Lumba.
Speaking on Hitz FM’s Daybreak Hitz on July 30, Ashis stated that such a gathering ought to take place prior to the Yentie Obiaa hitmaker’s funeral.
“The iconic Lumba needs a national celebration and I am urging Charterhouse to lead this campaign. Try and put together an event where we will have our stars come and honour the legend.
“Before his burial, we should do something of that sort where we see [maybe] a Fameye or Kwabena Kwabena perform a Lumba song just like they do at the Ghana Music Awards. Even if it is a paid event, I am sure it will be a sold-out event,” he said.
Ashis described the late musician as one of Ghana’s most respected artiste.
He explained that for more than a decade, presidential candidates from Ghana’s two main political parties had been cautious of Lumba because “he is that guy that could be with you now, the next moment he was with the other person. And nobody dared touch Lumba. Other people did political songs and they were touched but he did and nothing happened to him.”
Daddy Lumba died on Saturday, July 26, 2025 at age 60.
