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Dr. Paa Kwesi Nduom, presidential candidate of the Convention People’s Party (CPP) has declared his intention to give the arts industry in Ghana the necessary attention if given the nod in the December 7 elections… More »
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Why Ghanaian musicians will continue to slip down the deep trenches of poverty
Music has been tagged “an international language”, a cultural instrument often used at festivals, funerals, dances, dinners, parties, weddings and political rallies.
Music also adds spice to life, is considered food for love and the philosopher’s… More »
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Ghanaian artistes perform for peace
After several weeks of preparation following the launch of the Ghana First Peace Train, the train has taken off with several live musical concerts with the aim of educating Ghanaians to maintain peace during and… More »
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It appears the only time recording engineer and technical producer Nana Osei, better known as Nacy, feels he is in his real element these days is when he is behind his newly-acquired 48-channel Tascam DM-3200… More »
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Hypocrisy will kill us - Slim Buster
One of Ghana’s most romantic Hiplife artistes and dancer, Slim Buster, has stressed that the problems that have bedeviled the Musicians’ Union of Ghana, the mother organization for musicians in the country, and the music… More »
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MTN to hold two big yellow parties
Mobile Telecommunications Network (MTN) Ghana, in collaboration with its partners in the entertainment industry would hold a world class “Yellow Party” on October 4, 2008 to celebrate Ghanaian sports and music heroes, the MTN brand… More »
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The President of the Musicians Union of Ghana (MUSIGA), Mrs. Diana Hopeson has called on all Musicians in the country to remain neutral in the area of politics.
According to her, Musicians have the right to… More »
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Finally, the Musicians Union of Ghana (MUSIGA) has stated that it will not hold anything against its members who openly campaign for political parties of their choice.
This statement came in the wake of an emerging… More »
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The call for peace in the forthcoming elections has been given a boost by a group of musician forming the “Peace Train”.
The train stopped at Citi FM last week to reiterate the call for a peaceful election… More »
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Information reaching The Saturday Statesman indicates that a number of top musicians and some key functionaries in the music industry, including record label executives, are to embark on a massive demonstration against what they described… More »
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MUSIGA cautions musicians against political party campaign
Mrs. Diana Hopeson, President of the Musicians Union of Ghana (MUSIGA), on Tuesday kicked against musicians involved in active partisan political campaign saying that it was not prudent.
“Musicians are role models and since our fans… More »
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Those who think hiplife is as vibrant as it used to be are living in a fool’s paradise. The events of the past half a decade have proven clearly that the genre of music that… More »
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Musicians bribe DJs to play their songs
Samini Andrew Emmanuel, one of the most popular hip-life artistes across the whole of West Africa, and who will be coming out with another earth-rocking album next month, has vehemently deflated the claim that musicians… More »
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Musicians at Miss Ghana pageantry failed to entertain
The much hyped Miss Ghana pageantry, which promised to offer its audience great entertainment for their money, failed to live up to expectation.
Apart from Castro a hip-life musician - who mesmerized the audience with his… More »
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The highlife fraternity on Saturday joined the Helwani, Fatal and Medie families to celebrate their fallen hero, Faisal Helwani, as part of activities marking his final memorial service.
The late legendary music producer and CEO of… More »
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Ghanaian musicians warm up for Best of Ghana-USA
Family Tree Entertainment has taken another big step to partner some American-based organisations for a series of concerts involving some of Ghana’s big names in hiplife and gospel music on an American tour dubbed “The… More »
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Is NPP flirting with musicians
It all started with a meeting, which turned out to be a party, with some of Ghana’s top musicians and actors turning up at his family residence in Nima, a sprawling community in Accra, noted… More »
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MUSIGA to honour Diana Hopson, Amandzeba, others
The Central Regional branch of the Musicians Association of Ghana (MUSIGA), is to honour musicians from the region, who have contributed to the development of the industry in the country, as part of activities to… More »
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For a musical event to be one to remember, the artiste has to move the crowd to their feet or have them ask for more. What I normally hear after every show is either the… More »
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Musicians unite to promote peaceful elections
A National Peace and Development Campaign on the theme: “United for Peace and Development” was launched on Thursday with a call on Ghanaians to ensure that they contributed to peaceful elections. More »
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Exciting smiles, good clothes seemed the order of the day as each of the 245 award winners mounted the stage to be honoured by President J. A Kufuor at the colourful National Awards ceremony held last Thursday at the Accra International Conference Centre. More »
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Video: 2Ga and Chemphe speak during Musicians vrs Black Stars match
During the second half of the musicians verses the Black Stars. Our cameras caught up with 2Ga and Chemphe to share what they thought of the game. More »
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Stars engage Stars in football
A large number of spectators, consisting mainly of beautiful women, thronged the El-Wak stadium in Accra last Sunday to catch a glimpse of music and football stars as they engaged each other in a football match. More »
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Musicians to grace Oman FM Anniversary jam
As part of activities marking its one year anniversary, Oman Fm will on Tuesday July 1 organise a music bash at the forecourt of the station located at Madina in Accra. More »
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No pay, no gig…musicians take a stand on rates
The days when people engaged the services of musicians and paid them according to their own consideration are drawing to a close because the Musicians Union of Ghana (MUSIGA) has come up with a minimum wage package for its members which it intends to see enforced throughout the country. More »
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Ja Rule, Kwaw Kese perform @ La Beach
Come Sunday April 27, the La Pleasure Beach in Accra will witness the biggest beach jam ever. More »
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Begoro singing bands’ union inaugurated
Musicians and singing bands have been asked to avoid composing sing songs that could negatively affect peace and tranquility in the country, particularly during the events leading to the 2008 Election. More »
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Ghanaian entertainers and drug use
Entertainers that encompass musicians, actors, songwriters, dancers overcome everything that comes their way in show business in the form of owning deluxe homes, driving flashy sports cars, having women at their beg and call - but the one thing that entertainers have not and cannot surmount is drugs. More »
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Video: Veeda speaks for the female artistes
Veeda has joined the wagon on the few female Ghanaian musicians and has vowed to conquer the male artistes and even her fellow musicians. She gives tips on how female musicians can over ride their male counterparts. More »
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Poverty: Showbiz stars have no excuse
What do Ghanaian musicians and actors want - wealth or fame? They deserve both; don’t they? Sadly, it seems many of them are getting massive media publicity while still hustling for bus fares to move… More »
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Members of the Musicians Union of Ghana (MUSIGA) have resolved to adopt written contracts in their dealings with all individuals and organizations. More »
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Come Friday March 7, 2008 the British Council hall would present BRING THE NOISE, one of its five regional projects which is part of Africa 2007, a three-year regional programme in East, West and Southern Africa. More »
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Burger Highlife musicians in concert
The auditorium of the National Theatre in Accra will on Saturday March 8 reverberate with sounds, beats and rhythms of Burger Highlife when a number of well-known highlife musicians of the 80s and 90s display their skills in another historic concert. More »
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C. K. Mann blasts P/NDC and top stars pledge for Nana Akufo-Addo
A renowned Ghanaian musician, popularly known as C. K Man, has taken swipes at the defunct Provisional National Defence Council (PNDC) led by ex-President Jerry Rawlings. More »
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Hiplife artistes support Black Stars
Prior to the extensive jubilation that rocked the nation on Sunday night after the Black Stars’ 2-1 triumph over the Super Eagles of Nigeria, a group of Ghanaian hiplife artistes who were confident that Ghana would win, organized a party on Saturday night to celebrate the Stars’ victory in advance. More »
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New group promises to reform music industry
After years of strident disagreement with the leadership of the Musicians Union of Ghana (MUSIGA) over direction, Carlos Sakyi, Rex Omar and other like-minded musicians have initiated a new union which they say is totally focused on transforming Ghana’s music industry. More »
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An old scorpion can still sting, says a Ga proverb and 85-year-old drummer, Ghanaba stung the audience at the One Touch Africa Speaks concert at the National Theatre last Friday with his typical pounding on huge drums and a shower of expletives that sent some laughing and others cringing. More »
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Africa jammed at Go Africa concert
The huge floodlights of the Ohene Djan Stadium last Saturday night beamed some of their brightness across to the Independence Square, rightly spreading the prevailing soccer euphoria to the crowds streeming into the big open space for the Go Africa concert. More »
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Ghana 2008 - No place for music
If the fiasco that characterised the Inter-Participating Nations Jamboree that followed the Ghana 2008 draw last October had any lessons for the Local Organising Committee, those lessons did not have any effect on the gentlemen whose job it is the activities related to the 20-day football fiesta. More »
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The Rhythms of African Music Foundation (RAMF), a non-governmental organization made up of musicians has organized a day’s seminar for Ghanaian musicians at Agona Swedru in the Central Region. More »
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Ghana 2008 - Batman Samini leads pack of Ghanaian musicians
With just seven days to the kick-off of the Ghana 2008, the fun and fever that started building up a few months ago will soon be heightened when the Local Organising Committee starts hoisting the national flags of the 16 participating countries. More »
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Of musicians and event organisers
The New Year is here again and will not stop coming to us and Weekly Fylla will like to extend the warmest of the season’s greetings, wishes and resolution to our numerous patrons and our… 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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A. B. Crenstil, Lord Kenya and Babashanti in the states
To prove that Nyce Entertainment wasn’t joking this time, they have made sure A. B. Crenstil, Lord Kenya and Babashanti have arrive safely for the USA two days concert. More »
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Ghanaian musicians support Akufo-Addo
With only three days to go until the leader of the NPP is chosen, musicians, including the new MUSIGS President, Diana Hopeson, have shown their support for Akufo-Addo as the new leader. Others include Mac Tonto and Blay Ambolley. More »
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A group of musicians, in partnership with Rhythms of African Music Foundation (RAMF), a non-governmental organization, has decided to organize series of musical concerts in the country to educate Ghanaians about the dangers of Tuberculosis (TB). More »
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Akwaaba UK and Ghanaian musicians to host the biggest pool party ever
Akwaaba UK is throwing a pool party and we’re letting some of Ghana Music.com fans hear of this exclusively. More »
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Back home the celebrity baby Ahoy is gradually becoming fashion of who is the ¨crazy shooter¨. In this part of our world where showbiz personalities have been given prominence yet nothing tops the joy of parenthood of marriage. More »
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Joy FM Night with the Stars rocks the city
The Accra International Conference Centre last Saturday night, December 1, 2007 became the centre of Ghana as thousands thronged there to take part in arguably, the biggest show in town, the Joy FM Night with the Stars Show. More »
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Becca dares the guys at Nite with the Stars
You could tell from the frankness of her voice that she was not lying to herself, or anyone else, when Ghana’s current music sensation, Becca, promised to give fellow artistes scheduled to perform at Joy FM’s ‘Nite With The Stars’ programme on Friday, December 1, a real challenge. More »
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After another year of dishing out all manner of music to listeners, Joy FM is now inviting them to come over to meet the presenters, the music stars and dance at its 7th Night With The Stars bash at the Accra International Conference Centre on Saturday December 1. More »
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GAPI proposes bank for musicians
Can anything overtake cocoa as Ghana’s number one export earner? Answer is simple: Music! That’s according to Francis Twum Mensah, General Secretary of the Ghana Association of Phonographic Industries (GAPI). More »
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New musicians’ association born
In the meeting of the association, a renowned musician Carlos Sakyi in his speech, claimed that MUSIGA has failed to live up to the expectation, so there was the need for the new union to be formed. More »
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As part of efforts to bring sanity into the music industry and as well fight corruption, the Professional Musicians Association of Ghana (PROMAG) has been formed by a group of musicians. More »
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Tension mounts in music industry…as top musicians support Ambolley
A Group of Ghanaian musicians who are unhappy about the treatment meted out to Gyedu Blay Ambolley by the Musicians Union of Ghana (MUSIGA) have declared their support for Ambolley in the fight against alleged injustice and corruption in the music industry. More »
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Intelligent report picked on the radar before we went to bed indicated that a group of senior officers in the music industry have decided to stage a MUSIGA coup by forming a new music union… More »
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With the national congress of the Musicians union of Ghana (MUSIGA) just 48 hours away, the real issues of the candidates’ exact vision and policies for the union have made way for media battles over… More »
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Pay the boys now - LOC/Ghana 2008
Information reaching us on the radar indicates that some of the country’s musicians who participated in the just ended “JAMBOREE” Concert at the forecourt of the State house have not been paid to date.
According to… More »
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Metropolitan Television (Metro TV) has launched a programme to raise funds to support local artistes, especially musicians whose works are featured on the station’s programme, Advertising Cycle (Ad Cycle). More »
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A relief programme themed “REACH OUT GHANA” has been launched by Concerned Artistes for Disaster Relief (CADRE) in Accra on Tuesday, to raise funds to support relief efforts for the Northern flood victims. More »
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K-Bee Productions & musicians to raise awareness about HIV/AIDS on World AIDS Day
Using music as a tool to create awareness about HIV/AIDS is a good channel K-Bee Productions, an event management and Consultancy company is using. K-Bee Productions has announced on Saturday that it’s much talked about AIDS Awareness Float & Beach Jam will come on November 30 and December 1. More »
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There are many aspects of football that qualify it as entertainment but the game itself hardly get categorised as such. The ongoing MTN Soccer Academy reality show on Metro TV stokes the debate. Is football entertainment or not? 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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We are creating holes in our musicians pocket
I now know why our musicians feeds from hand to mouth when they should ripe what they have toiled in months to sow. They should be happy using their God given talent to make ends meet but rather they have they have been denied from it. More »
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Printex hosts Becca B-day bash at Boom
It was a night of excitement, funky-filled and the dress code was white and gold on Saturday at the Boomerang Nite Club when Becca celebrated her birthday and also officially unveiled her maiden album “Sugar” to the general public. More »
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What is happening to our musicians?
You might consider this to be out of place for this column but it is worth mentioning since it was part of a program I heard on the airwaves. More »
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Musicians, Mfantseman celebrate Borbor Afahye
An array musicians would from August 23 storm the Mfantseman District to churn out non-stop music for thousands of merrymakers from various parts of Ghana as part of activities marking this year’s “Borbor Mfantse Afahye” celebration. More »
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Ohemaa Mercy snipes at gospel musicians
Mrs. Mercy Twum-Ampofo a.k.a Ohemaa Mercy says some gospel artists are imposing themselves on people without knowing the rudiments of the music. More »
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Metro TV unfolds package for musicians
Works of musicians which feature in Metro TV’s Ad cycle will now attract an amount of GH¢30 (¢300,000) per music video. More »
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Metro TV, the station with the heart, has given credence to its slogan, by initiating a policy to pay musicians who are featured on their programs for the use of their musical works, starting this August, 2007. More »
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Some musicians have expressed their unhappiness with the call by Mr. Faisal Helwani, a music producer and chief executive of Bibini Music Production, that the Attorney General and Minister of Justice, Hon. Joe Ghartey should stop COSGA from distributing royalties until its board members render accounts. More »
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Unprofessionalism killing music industry - Diana
We can all jump for joy at the thought that there are more Gospel musicians in Ghana than there used to be a decade ago. More »
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The man Apor …burial now 17-18th August
When the death of David Laryea Afortey also known as Apor, the chief executive of Prince Dave Group of Companies broke out some few weeks ago, it was unexpected and shocking. 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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War over ‘payola’ - DJ Abio says no
Most Ghanaian musicians are dying and dying poor. Not because they do not make money out of what they produce, but because there are no concrete structures and channels in the country through which they can benefit immensely from what they have produced. More »
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Musicians run riot over Daily Guide story
Some musicians and key players in the music industry last Monday besieged the premises of the Copyright Society of Ghana (COSGA) in reaction to a story in the Monday edition of the Daily Guide, headlined “Joe Ghartey Urged to Stop Royalty Distribution”. More »
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Mac Tontoh explains Osibisa’s absence…Ghana @ 50 Show
Mac Tontoh, a member of world-acclaimed Ghanaian Afro pop group, Osibisa, has disclosed that the group did not stage performances during the Ghana @ 50 celebrations because it was not invited. More »
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Metro TV pledges to pay musicians
Mr. Haruna Alhassan, Deputy Managing Director of Metro TV has pledged on behalf of Metro TV that provided there is an adequate distribution system, any artist who appear on Metro TV would (depending on the caliber of the artist) be paid an amount of between three hundred and five hundred thousand cedis. More »
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The premises of Oman 107.1 Fm, an Accra radio station, was thrown into a state of confusion on Monday when officers of the Ghana Police Service clashed with music enthusiasts at the station’s first ever music jamboree dubbed “Bosoe”. More »
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When did musicians turn footballers…Is it possible?
Don’t ever think the above headline is just to attract readers or make mockery of the fact that once you are a doctor, farmer, musician, footballer, nurse or a lawyer you can’t have the skills of any other professional. More »
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