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Born in Accra, Ghana, west Africa, Selasee Atiase learnt to play guitar and started composing and performing gospel music during his early teenage years with his local church group. However, he had a strong desire to reach beyond the gospel audience. His first attempt to further this ambition was by joining a group called Makuma, made up of five singers. Soon he enrolled on a 3 year music program at the school of performing arts at the University of Ghana in Legon. In August 1996, Selasee performed in front of an audience of 5,000 people at a seminar at the International Trade Fair site in Accra. Through this he met Sean Cassidy from Montreal, Canada, who was among the attendees. They immediately became brothers and have been good friends ever since. Shortly after connecting, Sean sponsored the recording of Makuma's first album and also helped record an album for his local church group know as 'Heart to Heart'. In 1998, the church group was invited to perform at the Worldwide sem...