Hallelujah Voices’ ‘Defe Defe’ singer breaks silence over copyright issue
Mabel Tiwaa Rockson of Hallelujah Voices, the team behind the original ‘Defe Defe’ song released in 2004 has reacted to the alleged copyright infringement by Team Eternity.
The singer in an interview expressed surprise at the way Team Eternity has handled the alleged copyright issue.
Kwame Mickey, the producer of the original “Defe Defe” song, has asked Team Eternity to do the right thing by meeting him and providing compensation.
In his view, Team Eternity sampled parts of a song he produced in the past to create their monster hits, ‘Defe Defe’ song.
Mabel Tiwaa Rockson of Hallelujah Voices addressed the matter for the first time in an interview on Kumasi-based Hello FM, expressing her dissatisfaction with Team Eternity’s approach.
She noted that she had plans to do a remix of the 2004 hit song but had to put it on hold because of Team Eternity’s hit song.
“I heard my children singing the song and thought they had coined something like that. However, it turned out a group had sung it. I wanted to do a remix, but I had to hold on because their song was out there and doing so well.
“It was later that Kwame Mickey reached out and said he had called out Team Eternity on social media and that if he had told us, we would have advised him to give it to God, but he chose a different approach.
“So they called my husband and told him that we are Christians and should handle it as Christians, not like those who sing hiplife. I felt offended when my husband told me about what they said,” she said in the interview.
The ‘Defe Defe’ song performed by Hallelujah Voices, was written by Osuani Afrifa and executively produced by Kwame Mickey for Kaakyire Music Productions. It was released in 2004.
The recent copyright issue has generated a lot of conversation lately. Some claim that Hallelujah Voices’ song and Team Eternity’s “Defe Defe” are different, while others assert that copyright infringement is committed simply by the fact that two lines of the song are identical.