According to Ghanaian Musician, Kuffour Prempeh, popularly known as Kofi Jamar said the President of the musicians union of Ghana (MUSIGA), Bessa Simons, and the Chairman of the Ghana Music Rights Organization (GHAMRO) Rex Omar, must leave the job for the youths, they should vacate their positions as leaders and step down.
According to Kofi Jamar, Rex Omar and Bessa Simons are still running the affairs of their various offices in an archaic style, when there are vibrant young people who are ready to bring their contemporary brains into use and turn things around for musicians, therefore, they must pave way for such persons.
Speaking in an interview, Kofi Jamar while answering a question as to why some Ghanaian artists are poor in the industry, indicated that, musicians abroad get richer and richer as they grow because their music system is working, unlike in Ghana.
“Ghana here is not like that, but if you go outside (abroad), that’s the thing they do, musicians make a lot of money when their songs are being played…It’s high time that the MUSIGA president and other presidents here stepped in and did something like that for us … We need more improvement.”.
He added that one of the main challenges facing the music industry is that, the leaders have refused to involve the youth, and they keep operating in the old-fashioned ways.
“The problem we have now is that we don’t bring the youth on board…our Presidents are not well-versed with the current system…In their time, they were using cassettes so they’re still in the archaic system of using Cassettes.”
However, he supported his statement by saying that, “the promotion of songs is now streamed on phones, Audio Mark, Spotify, etc, thus, we need youth who can make phone calls through to Audio Mark, Spotify, and youth who can distribute our songs on all these platforms to help develop our music industry.
Kofi Jamar concluded that someone like Baba Sadiq can help the industry.
story by Obaapa Janee
