Divorce threat led me to create ‘Appietus in the mix’ – Appietus

Famous music producer and sound engineer, Appiah Dankwah, says a divorce threat by his wife forced him to create his popular signature jingle, “Appietus in the mix”.

According to the award-winning producer, he had decided to focus on doing his sound engineering and music production without adding a signature jingle, a practice that had gained popularity in the music space.

However, he indicated that his wife’s insistence led to him adding his signature jingle “Appietus in the mix” to the wit “Appiah and his tools” to his music production, a move that shot him to stardom.

In a video shared on X, he explained that the move was necessitated by the fact that, at that time, almost all the big producers had a signature jingle to their works, but he did not have one.

He mentioned that Jeff Quaye used “JQ” while Hammer used “The Last Two” as their respective identified signature jingles, which worked perfectly for their brands.

“My wife threatened to divorce me because I refused to heed her advice to also add a signature jingle to my production as others did, and she packed her things one day to leave my house”. He said.

According to him, he eventually gave in to his wife’s request and incorporated the “Appietus in the mix” into his music production as his signature jingle.

He disclosed in the interview that the original voice on the “Appietus in the mix” was that of Shatta Wale, but the artist was unaware of this because the idea was not consciously conceived.

“I was recording Shatta in the studio, and a call came through, so I left him behind to attend to the call. When he finished, I was still not in, so he started shouting ‘Appietus!! Appietus!!’ and it was that portion that I eventually used to create the Appietus in the mix signature jingle,” he stated.

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Source: Ghanaweb.com