Music duo, Buk Bak, has denied stories making the rounds that the group deliberately ditched music trio, 4x4, during their album launch at the Osu Oxford Street Friday, December 9.
Buk Bak is widely credited with discovering and guiding 4x4 into the phenomenal trio it is today and while Buk Bak’s name was among the list of artistes billed to perform at album launch, they failed to show up.
Soon after the successful launch of the album, which saw all the other billed artistes performing, Captain Planet, a member of 4x4 expressed his disappointment to Myjoyonline.com, saying their ‘fathers’ and mentors did not show up to support them.
He said Buk Bak did not give any indication that they were not going to turn up for the launch and was therefore surprised at their absence. As at news time that Myjoyonline.com contacted Captain Planet, he said Buk Bak had still not contacted them to say why they failed to turn up for the launch even though they were invited. While he will not call it a sabotage, he will not rule out the possibility.
But Buk Bak refuted the claim in an interview with Myjoyonline.com. Bright Boateng popularly known as Blinks Sparkles, a member of the group said “If it’s coming from my boys (4x4) then I will be surprised …” He explained that, “Prior to the day of the show something came up, something that we can’t disclose. I called one of the boys and told him [something urgent came up] so I wouldn’t be able to make it so I had to go take care of it out of town."
Brothers
Bright said he knew 4x4 would understand, stating “I spoke to CoDed about it, he was like cool.” Bright lamented however, “I felt disappointed myself for not showing up.”
Ronny Coaches, another member of Buk Bak quizzed, “What will Buk Bak have against 4x4?” explaining that “from day one we’ve been with them … we’ve been like brothers since day one, nothing won’t stop us from being on their show and we don’t have any misunderstanding with them.” Bright vehemently denied having any beef with 4x4, stating “I can’t hate on my own success. This is something I started so why should I hate on my own success?”
Source: Myjoyonline.com
Sources say that 4×4 was very much disappointed that fellow hiplife group, Buk Bak couldn’t make an appearance at their street party launch for their ‘Waist and Power’ album last Friday as planned. According to the source,
it was planned that Buk Bak would not also be present at the street party to perform but also introduce 4×4 on stage, since the latter started as a protégée group of Buk Bak. However there was a no show from Buk Bak, and the group did not call to give any explanations about their inability to show up
It is not clear how poison found its way into the food of Prince Bright aka Bling Sparkles, a member of Ghana’s exciting musical duo Buk Bak.
Reports reaching NEWS-ONE suggest that Bright was recently admitted at a private hospital in Accra where he spent a little over a week after doctors said he had consumed a large amount of poisoned food.
“It was very serious and if not for God, the news would have been something else. He started to complain of stomach upset soon after eating the food and he just went off a few minutes later even before we could grab some medicine from a pharmacy nearby.
“So we rushed him to the hospital and it was there that the doctors confirmed that there was poison in his food. It was serious because they said the quantity was large enough to have caused bad news,” a source hinted NEWS-ONE and said he was with Buk Bak and some friends when the incident occurred.
Ronnie Coches, the other member of Buk Bak, also confirmed to NEWS-ONE in a telephone interview that Bright was hospitalized for food poison, adding that the episode was “alarming and worrying”.
It is not clear what is happening within the entertainment industry in Ghana but the players have to be more careful because news of poison finding its way into the food of celebrities is becoming rampant.
Award-winning actor Majid Michel was earlier reported to have found a tin of milk he was to have used for breakfast, poisoned. The incident occurred while Majid was on a movie location with other movie makers.
Buk Bak is on record as the first hiplife group in Ghana to be successful with Ga lyrics and also top music charts with songs in Twi, English and Pidgin.
They were recently caught on camera in a canoe along the Chorkor beach in Accra, singing their new song, ‘Fisherman’s Anthem: You Saw Me’ and they explained their next mega concert: “On December 17 this year, we shall stage the Buk Bak Comeback Concert and that is what we are working on for now. It would be Buk Bak and friends and we can assure you that the show would be great. It does not mean we would stay away from shows. We would continue to honor invitations and respond to contracts.”
