Highlife singer and producer Bisa Kdei says every time he listens to Gyakie, he hears his own vocal habits staring back at him—right down to the breathy hisses between lines.
Speaking in an interview on 3Music TV, reported on Monday, November 9, the *Mansa* hitmaker singled out the Songbird for her songwriting and the grain of her voice, calling her his female musical counterpart.
"She's an amazing writer. She's fantastic."
"You know, she's the female version of Bisa Kdei," he said.
"She has the same resonance as me. You know, the way I sing, the hisses, she has the same thing," Bisa Kdei added.
He was quick to add that he had never mentored Gyakie, who is the daughter of highlife great Nana Acheampong.
Gyakie has previously said Bisa Kdei motivated her at the start of her career before they eventually traded verses on *Sor Mi Mu* and *Sika*.
While Gyakie has spent late 2026 building on her *After Midnight* album and joining M.anifest and Juls as a Martell Swift Academy mentor in Accra, Bisa Kdei also used the sit-down to pull back the curtain on his own under-the-radar studio work.
Bisa Kdei said he produced *Mansa* himself, then passed it to Kaywa (spelt Kewa in some reports) for additions and mastering.
His production credits also include *Chingam* and *Pimpina*, as well as *Sapepepe* and *One of Your Own*. He handled mixing on *Odoka Pinta*.
For an artist who has previously spoken out about industry politics undermining highlife acts, he said listeners rarely connect him to the mixing board simply because people do not ask about that side of his craft.
After *Sor Mi Mu* and *Sika*, is it time for Bisa Kdei and Gyakie to lock in for a full joint EP?
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