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V. I. C., the unknown Ghanaian artiste that has worked with Soulja Boy, Jermaine Dupri and more
Anything worth having demands hard work and sacrifice. Just ask Atlanta’s newest superstar-in-the-making V.I.C. as he readies for his debut album, due in Spring 2008. More »
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UW music students rally for Ghana-trip leaders
University of Washington enthnomusicology students spoke out today in defense of Ter Ellingson and Linda Iltis, the professor and lecturer who managed a controversial study-abroad program in Ghana last summer. More »
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Music and Business seminar ends
With just about one week before the last open meeting aimed at finalising the Legislative Instrument, which will define how Ghana’s Copyright Act of 2005 is regulated, a recent seminar held in Accra showed that there’s a general lack of understanding about copyright. More »
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Media store opens for business
Passionate music fans these days want their music when they want it, where they want it and how they want it, so Chris Ankrah, a music businessman has opened a well-stocked retail outlet at La in Accra, called The Media Store. More »
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‘Music is a potential revenue earner’ -Boafo
The Minister for Chieftaincy and Culture, S. K. Boafo says Ghanaian highlife music is a potential revenue earner which when properly developed could become one of the country’s non-traditional exports. He said it is regrettable that despite its potential, highlife music has been unable to penetrate the international music market because of the reliance on computerized background at the expense of the original Ghanaian cultural rhythm. More »
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The Role of Ghanaian musical artistes
It is indisputable fact that music is life and it is the food for the soul, for that matter. Music can therefore positively transform a society for progress and development; or on the other hand… More »
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NAFTI holds regional music workshop
The National Film and Television Institute (NAFTI) in collaboration with the French Embassy in Ghana is organizing a two-week regional workshop for African music writers, composers and performers to produce appropriate sound tracks to back African films. More »
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Artistes to raise funds to support flood victims
Concerned Artistes for Disaster Relief (CADRE), a charitable organization, on Tuesday launched a national appeal to raise funds in support of the four regions recently hit by floods. More »
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“There is natural mystic blowing through the air, if you listen carefully now you will hear? This could be the first trumpet might as well be the last. Many more we will have to suffer…. THINGS ARE NOT THEY WAY THEY SHOULD BE…one and all have to face reality now this could be the first trumpet might this one be the last…these are the big fish they always trying to eat up the small fish” More »
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Musicians in Ghana are always a target of exploitation by some corporate entities such as management firms, productions firms, event organizers, record labels, schools and even churches. More »
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Country loses ¢34 billion jobs to music piracy
Piracy of recorded music costs Ghana, sound and video recording industries billions of cedis in lost revenue and profits. These losses, however, represent only a fraction of the impact of recorded music piracy on the Ghanaian economy as a whole. More »
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I have been treated to good gospel music within the past few weeks in the early hours of the morning as I tune in to Hits FM. More »
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UTA students return from experiencing culture and music of Ghana
A group of University of Texas at Arlington students has just returned from Ghana, West Africa. While in Ghana the students met and studied with master musicians and cultural leaders from various ethnic music backgrounds. More »
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A music researcher and consultant, Mr. Carlos Sekyi, narrated to participants attending a seminar on `Distribution- The Key to Success In The Music Industry,` how the music of a young musician he met years ago was used without any payment to him. More »
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The former deputy chairman of the National Commission on Culture (NCC), Mr Hawkson has declared that the music industry in Ghana is being killed by lack of financing in the production of Ghanaian music. More »
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