Spotlight On A Creative Genius, Why He Calls Himself A Multipotentialite

Derek Asare Amoah is a Ghanaian Multipotentialite, a creative dabbling in photography, videography, graphic designing, content creation, and cinematography. He's also picked up skills as an Illustrator, product designer(UI/UX), and 3D artist.

Furthermore, Derek is an artiste, beatmaker, music producer, composer, and mixing engineer. "Coding and Web Development is probably where I draw the line to my learning curve."

What's more, the creative has had music he produced featured on Netflix and HBO. He's also had Ghanaian musicians such as Sarkodie, E.L, and M.anifest, Nigerian acts like Ice Prince, M.I Abaga, and Grammy Award-winning afrobeats artiste Burna Boy on his productions that did quite well. Now you understand why he calls himself a Multipotentialite.

"I used to want to be a part of the majority that stuck to a particular skill because it felt like the easier rational route. However, after experiencing the synergy and results I produce when I put all my skills to work, It all made sense."

The young creative has also been a video editor for the Ghanaian food channel Telande World for two years. Telande usually posts videos of African recipes, an effort to rebrand African cuisine and recipes. Derek was also responsible for the background music they use to this day.

His popular work was his time as a Graphic designer at the Multimedia Group, where he worked for nearly two years as part of their creative team. The Multipotentialite was in charge of all artworks for their lead station, Joy FM, which changed their look entirely. "To this day, the artworks they post are as a result of my templates(even though they aren't always used as I would have intended)," Derek stated.

Derek says that pinpointing the exact creativity trigger has always been hard to answer. However, the near motivation has always been his curiosity and the three questions he constantly asks himself when he stumbles on art that appeals to his inward artistry. "How was that achieved?" "Could I do it?" "What do I have to lose by trying to?"

Such curiosity has propelled him to learn much and made him stand out. He recently landed a content creation job with Shogun, an Asian restaurant in Accra. This led to a social media management gig with MOKA's, a food & delivery brand housed under the same company.