It’s an Insult for GHAMRO to Pay Me GH¢600 Through Mobile Money as Royalty After 7yrs in Music – D Black

There have been calls from several industry persons, including rapper Sarkodie, Shatta Wale and Paedae of R2Bees, for D-Black to become the president of the Musicians Union of Ghana (MUSIGA) because D Black is more business inclined person than a rapper looking at how he administer his brand, Black Avenue Music.

 

They believe that he, will be a better president than the union’s current president Bice Osei Kuffour (Obour) whom they have accused of not seeking the welfare musicians.

 

D-Black, speaking in an interview on the Cosmopolitan Mix with Doreen Andoh, clarified that he doesn’t necessarily want to be the president of MUSIGA. According to him, his only wish for the musicians’ body is for the right people to be appointed to run MUSIGA.

 
“The body that is responsible for welfare of musicians [is] not doing [its] job properly. I feel like they’ve made some effort but I don’t think it’s enough at all. Very little attention has been paid to the welfare of musicians.”

 
He noted that all over the world, there are bodies that collect royalties for musicians. These bodies, the rapper noted, work effectively to the benefit of musicians, that is not the case of the Ghana Music Rights Organisation (GHAMRO). “I don’t understand how GHAMRO works,” he said.

 

“After seven years of doing music, he received a mobile money alert from GHAMRO that his royalty, two years ago, was GHc600.00 and I got told that all the A-listers is GHc600 each and it didn’t make any sense to me…Because it’s not possible all artistes will get the same amount of airplay at a given time.”

 

To him, the musician’s body needs “to get the right people in the right places to make [MUSIGA] work. Because of the state of our music industry, to be honest with you, everybody is thinking about themselves…”

 

“I don’t care if it’s still Obour who is president of MUSIGA as long as the right thing is being done and the machine is working, it’s fine. It’s not about the post and the position for me; it’s about making sure that it’s working [and] everybody is getting what they are due,” D-Black noted.

 

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