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According to him the Former Ghanaian who passed on last year has significantly contributed to the music and creative arts industry, hence, the association's will be holding a concert to appreciate J.J Rawlings.
“You know because of the pandemic, we couldn’t do what we wanted to do for Mr Rawlings. He has done so much for the creative arts industry that we want to let the world know what he has done so that other people can emulate,” Bessa Simons.
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Veteran highlife musician, Bessa Simons
In a conversation with JoyNews’ Doreen Avio, he added that “the musicians show people what we have, even people come to this country, they want to know our culture, our music, our food and everything, he was a president who was always pushing for that".
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Further highlighting Rawlings' contribution to the music industry, he said “our office that we are using now was given to us by President Rawlings, so we want to show appreciation".
Speaking about the planned music concert, he said " it is going to be a virtual one depending on how the pandemic is going". No date has been announced yet.
Jerry John Rawlings died on November 12, 2020, aged 73 after a short illness and was buried on 27th January at the military cemetery in Accra.