Ghana’s Wiyaala & Atongo Zimba made it to the list of ‘Global 500 Greatest Songs of All Time’
Atongo Zimba and Wiyaala from Ghana have been included in the list of “The Global 500 Greatest Songs of All Time.”
Wiyaala’s Village Sex and Atongo’s No Beer in Heaven took the 419 and 316 positions respectively.
The list was compiled after two years of research by Alan Tigay, a seasoned author and music reviewer.
Wiyaala recently shared the good news on Facebook, wrote; “GHANA IS IN!
The esteemed author Alan M. Tigay of “World Listening Post” assembled the list.
The “list reflects global reality,” according to Tigay, not limiting itself to “a few genres” or “just the past few years,” and it most definitely goes beyond songs that are performed in the English language, something that authors of such lists, sadly, frequently fail to do.
He did, however, acknowledge that the “inclusive list” is by no means “final.”
“If I can offer one insight it would be that the most one can hope for is a list that is impressionistic. In two years of research I have concluded that there must be at least 10,000 songs that merit inclusion in a roster of the 500 best,” he revealed.
Legendary artists such as The Beatles, Aretha Franklin, Bob Dylan, Edith Piaf, and The West; Africa’s Fela Kuti, Angelique Kidjo, Papa Wemba, Salif Keita, and Miriam Makeba; Asia’s Lata Mangeshkar, Asha Bhosle, and Teresa Teng; and the Middle East’s Ofra Haza and Googoosh were among those featured on the Global 500 Greatest Songs of All Time list.
With their distinctive sound, the Wiyaala duo has established a solid niche for themselves and gained a sizable fan base outside of Ghana.
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