INFORMATION
| Born In : | accra |
| Occupation(s) : | rapper,singer,songwriter |
| Genres : | hiplife,afrosongs |
Buk Bak was a Ghanaian musical group composed of Prince Bright, Isaac Shoetan and Ronny Coaches. They rapped in Ga, Twi, and Pidgin, and were the first hiplife group in Ghana to be successful with Ga lyrics.[1]
As of 2006, they were both pursuing individual projects. Bright and Ronny reunited in 2012 to record what turned out to be their final album as a group, Fisherman Anthem. The original group had more members, some of which have formed groups like 4×4. The group ended in 2013, after the death of Ronny Coaches.
Buk Bak coined from “BOOK BACK” was first formed to see how far Prince Bright also known as Bling Sparkles, Ronnie Coaches and Isaac Shoetan known as Papa Shoto could go considering their love for music as a window to vent their feelings and means to entertain their ever-increasing fan base. The group then didn’t know what they were bargaining for in the beginning but it didn’t come as a surprise when they were headlining shows from Ghana, USA, UK to many other places. They began free styling and gained that street credibility every artist needed back then to survive the Ghanaian hip life industry. In an inter school rap contest, Ronnie Coaches who was pursuing Auto Mechanics at Accra Technical Training College (ATTC) came in second with his group and Shoetan and Bling Sparkles came in third. Ronnie had already built a huge fan base in ATTC but Isaac Shoetan and Bling Sparkles spoke to Ronnie about joining Buk Bak and his acceptance made the group begin talking about putting out an album. Isaac Shoetan known as Papa Shoto was an Adisadel College student. They were snapped and signed on to Abib Records, which the group described as “good contract and good money”in an interview. The group then recorded their first studio album “Komi Kἐ Kena”, and then followed it up with “Awἐnsἐm”and before topping it up with “Nkomhyἐ”with Abib of Abib Records where their current affairs manager Mohammed Khan Addae was Public Relations. After a few years of working, Isaac Shoetan left the group to pursue his own projects leaving Ronnie Coaches and Bright to record“1662”, “SikaKorkor”, and then “Gold Coast”with Agicoat Records before Ronnie Coaches and Bright also split to pursue their solo projects in 2006. Bling Sparkles recorded “Light over Darkness” which had hit single “Condom” with Prince Dave Records. He then moved to the United States to pursue other equally important projects. Ronnie Coaches recorded “Screen Saver” an equally successful album before the two announced of their comeback in 2012 to released club banger “Kolom”. The duos songs are being inspired by stuff they dealt with growing up. Both grew up in a compound house where a lot of drama and happenings occurred and they now take those scenes and memories they can remember and put them into their writings and make it sound great for people to dance to. People love Buk Bak for their party songs and they have realized this and would go all the way to entertain the people like they have always done. They mentored 4X4, Castro, Pope Skinny, K-2, Buky Core and whole lot of artists who are all now making people dance everywhere their music go. Because they believe in sharing their talent to make people happy and that’s why they mentored all these artists to have a feel of what it felt like to be on top because Buk Bak believe “when you are at the top alone it will get to a time you will feel lonely so we should help several other people come up there so we can all enjoy life”. On November 21, 2013, Ronnie Coaches was pronounced dead at the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital in Accra, Ghana. Coaches had suffered a heart attack.
