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On record as the last engineer to
have worked with hiplife artiste
Castro before his disappearance on
July 6, 2014, Appiah Dankwah
popularly known as Appietus is
uncertain about the existence of
the artiste.
He says Castro is not a fish to have
stayed in water for this long.
In a telephone interview on his
works and memories of Castro on
Hitz FM’s Entertainment This Week
with Mzgee, the sound engineer
could only be hopeful.
“Well I can’t really say anything,
Castro is obviously not a fish. If he
is under the water he couldn’t have
stayed there that long or maybe he
has amnesia. He’s lost all his
memory and is somewhere. We
don’t know so we are yet to know if
is alive or he is gone.”
Appietus described Castro’s
absence as a big loss to the
Ghanaian music fraternity,
indicating that Castro was a
reigning artiste who before his
disappearance had featured in all
the big songs in the industry.
He stressed that the vacuum
created by his disappearance is yet
to be filled.
The sound engineer who released a
song by Castro earlier this year,
disclosed that he released Castro’s
song titled ‘Medowo’ even though
the artiste was physically not
present.
Even though the song is doing
quite well on the market and has
received enough airplay, Appietus
said the song would have been
better with Castro’s presence.
“Well it did (well but) because of
his absence, he had to be around
to promote it and because he (was)
not, it dwindled. I can’t be doing
the promo, you know you have to
shoot a video to it and all that and
as he is not around at some point,
if the artiste is not around at some
point, it could drown, so that’s
what happened”.
Appietus suggests that dividends of
Castro’s collaborations be given to
his family in his absence.
“….. I don’t know the deal they
signed with him but I mean if they
should play shows and Castro was
on the song, some of the dividend
should have gone to the family or
something but it depends on what
contract they signed maybe I will
do a song for you, you will do a
song for me, like you do and in that
case there’s no money or
percentage share in the end.”
Credit: Myjoyonline.com
