Ghanaian highlife musician, Amakye Dede, has enumerated the advantages that Ghana Music has lost with the unfortunate passing of his long time pal, Nana Tuffour, who died in the early hours of Monday, in Kumasi.

The 66-year-old veteran, Nana Tuffour, died Monday dawn in his home after a brief illness. His body has since been deposited at the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital in Kumasi.

Amakye Dede, who has known Nana Tuffour for more than 20 years, categorically stated that Nana Tuffour's death will leave a gap that cannot be filled by any other artist in the music industry.

He told Miriam Osei Agyemang on Urban Blend on 3FM that although he and his close friend were mostly inseparable and have both performed on the same stage. He reflected that Ghana has indeed lost a music icon in the person of 9924 due to the capacity of his faculty in music.

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“Nana Tuffour was such a great nice guy. Among the musicians Nana Tuffour was so nice I was so close to him. “I have known Nana Tuffour for more than 25 years to 30 years. Through…I got to know one engineer in Germany called Bodo Staiger. It was Nana Tuffour who recorded there first before he told me that the guy was good…,”

 “I’ve been also playing with him on the same stage. We performed together both here and abroad. His absence will bring much gap in our music business because Nana is very influential in the music scene… All [that] I can say is that may the good God receive him in a good faith and I know by all means…he is going to just find a place for all of us we will meet again,” he concluded.