[ 2014-10-22 ]

Mzbel, the 'Awoso me' star
Mzbel, known in private life as Nana Ekua
Amoah,was born on Boxing Day that is December 26,
in Accra to Mr Albert A. Amoah, an engineer and
the late Agnes Nyarko.She is the last-born of
seven children all girls.

“She grew up in James Town.

After attending God’s Wisdom Preparatory and
Morning Star schools, she continued to Owusu Mills
JSS at Mamprobi for her junior secondary school
education.

She had her senior secondary education at Abuakwa
State College where she offered General Arts. She
majored in economics, geography and French.

She later enrol at the Ghana Institute of
Languages to become a bilingual secretary but that
was not what She wanted to do so while at the
institute,she had the hint that Manifold Tutorial
College was offering a in Production and enrolled,
combining it with her course at the Institute of
Languages.

She studied public relations,TV and radio
production. After her course,she did her
internship with GBC Radio 1 where she hosted a
children’s programme “Mmofra kyepem”. “The
financial benefit was not rewarding and her twi
was not too good so she moved to Groove FM,now
Adom FM,to continue her internship and did a
programme titled ‘Kids on Groove’ ”.

A friend who realised her potential and her
production background advised her to apply to TV3
as a production assistant for one of the
station’s youth programmes known as Goldblast.

She also worked as floor manager for Goldblast and
also as a production assistant for another
programmes. In the year 2002, Mzbel had the
opportunity to work with Hush Hush Studios, which
at that time had come on the scene as a new
production firm. While at Hush Hush, she took
advange of their music recording studio and came
out with her first album Awoso Me

”Still working part-time at Hush Hush Studios
she secured another job at Metro TV as a producer
for Smash TV, a weekend entertainment programme,
but had to quit after a few months because of a
misunderstanding.

With luck on her side, it did not take long before
she got another job this time at Apex Advertising
located at Osu in Accra as an editor and a
production manager.

“I liked what I was doing then and also had the
chance to meet different people,” she said.

According to Mzbel,“music came accidentally.I
never planned to go into music but I’m now
enjoying it so I’ve taken it seriously”.

She writes all her songs.

She describes herself as a very friendly person
who likes hanging out with kids. Most people have
criticised Mzbel for the way she dresses which
they have described as “sexy” or “skimpy”
but she says she dresses in a particular way
because she believes as an artiste “you must
look unique.

I usually go for white or pink colours because
they are more feminine. Mzbel prays and hopes she
becomes more successful in her music career to
enable her to be of help to street girls.

She plans to have her own production studios.

She believes that hiplife has a bright
future.“If we do it well, in the next five
years,hiplife will take over the whole of the
African continent.”

The name Mzbel is simply Miss Belinda.

Source - http://www.mzbelonline.com

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