Nneameka Okorie, popularly called Patoranking, is one of the most
celebrated reggae-dancehall
artists in Nigeria and by extension,
Africa. But the story, like that of most people, has not always been
that good for the ‘Alubarika’ star. Patoranking was recently in Ghana
for a show last week where he had an exclusive interview with top
Ghanaian radio personality Bola
Ray on Starr 103.5 FM. In the course of
the
interview, he revealed that his music
career actually started off in
Ghana. According to him, ‘I started music from my mum’s belly, but
dancehall has always been something that I grew up listening to and it
was perfected in Ghana.’ Patoranking’s first trip to Ghana, according to
him, was in 2007 after he was admitted into Cape Coast
University.
After a year at the university, he dropped out due to financial
constraints. ‘ I had to move from Cape Coast to Accra. I was sleeping on
the streets of Osu just to make it. We must make am now…survival at all
cost’, he said before adding: ‘The only option I had at that point was
making it in life
because I just had to change the course of my family,
the face of my family you know…being the first child…I just say thank
you Lord and to everybody that never doubted me. I pray for them still
and we’re still together,’ he added. It is on record that while hustling
in Ghana, Patoranking met a young Ghanaian
entrepreneur named Lanky on
the streets of Osu who
partnered with him to achieve his dreams. Lanky
started a production company called Black Rhythms Entertainment and made
a few tracks with him, the songs
enjoyed some airplay but it was
difficult to break through in Ghana so he returned to Nigeria and the
rest, as they say, it history…
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