On July 6, 2014 Ghanaian famous hip life artiste Theophilus Tagoe known in the music space as Castro under Fire, disappeared with his supposed girlfriend Janet Bandu after reports of the two drowning in the Volta Lake.
But currently in the voice of budding Ghanaian afro beats/ hip life artiste, Kobina Richiz born Ahmed Amin, it feels Castro is strongly back.
Kobina Richiz who describes himself as Humble, determined and a go getter who doesn’t lose focus “and always get my eyes on the price which I go for it. And I am allergic to negativity.”
In an interview with Kobina Richiz, he had passion for music at an early age and took inspiration from, Sas Squad, Castro Under fire and other good artiste. He started music professionally in 2011 where he gathered confidence to begin writing his own songs.
According to the artiste who sings like and takes his inspiration from Castro, said he is in the music scene to add up to what has already been created and also create more platforms for the upcoming artistes to shine so that they will not go through more stress .
Kobina has seven songs on his current EP and were produced by Jaynim Beat, Konfen,DoB Music and JayWyse. His current single ‘Higher’ is an Inspirational song and also talks about realities of Life. “I chose the title because i always derive positive from negative. It talks about love, inspirations and the realities of life.”
He also revealed that, he is musically related to top Ghanaian artiste Sarkodie and will soon feature him on a song soon. Kobina also boasted that he has no competitor in the music scene because he is on a mission to take African’s music global.
He encouraged his fellow artistes to stay humble, determined and just focus on whatever they do and never think of giving up because nothing good comes easy.