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).<\/p>\n
They believe that he, will be a better president than the union\u2019s current president Bice Osei Kuffour (Obour) whom they have accused of not seeking the welfare musicians.<\/p>\n
Obour, reacting to the calls, told Franky5 on ‘This is Gospel’ on Hitz FM that D-Black, born Desmond Blackmore, does not even qualify to lead the musicians\u2019 union.<\/p>\n
\u201cD-Black is impossible because the Musicians Union of Ghana constitution will not permit it. The constitution of the Musicians Union of Ghana says he must be an executive before [he] can become a president,\u201d he explained.<\/p>\n
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D-Black, speaking in an interview on the Cosmopolitan Mix with Doreen Andoh, clarified that he doesn\u2019t necessarily want to be the president of MUSIGA.<\/p>\n
According to him, his only wish for the musicians\u2019 body is for the right people to be appointed to run MUSIGA.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe body that is responsible for welfare of musicians [is] not doing [its] job properly. I feel like they\u2019ve made some effort but I don\u2019t think it\u2019s enough at all. Very little attention has been paid to the welfare of musicians.\u201d<\/p>\n
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).<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t understand how GHAMRO works,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
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After seven years of doing music, he received a mobile money alert from GHAMRO that his royalty, two years ago, was GHc600 \u201cand I got told that all the A-listers is GHc600 each and it didn\u2019t make any sense to me\u2026Because it\u2019s not possible all artistes will get the same amount of airplay at a given time.<\/p>\n
The \u2018Vera\u2019 hit rapper called for investment into a software that properly records the number of times each artiste\u2019s song is played by radio stations in the country.<\/p>\n
On the issue of running for the MUSIGA presidency, D-Black noted that \u201cwhen you are going to do something like this, you have to be selfless and you have to have the time to manage and run it properly. I can help but I think that it\u2019s just not about me, it\u2019s about the whole music fraternity coming together and jut putting things in place.\u201d<\/p>\n
To him, the musician\u2019s body needs \u201cto 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\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n
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\u201cI don\u2019t care if it\u2019s 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\u2019s not about the post and the position for me;\u00a0it\u2019s about making sure that it’s working [and] everybody is getting what they are due,\u201d D-Black noted.<\/p>\n
The rapper, who is the CEO of Black Avenue Music, dismissed any attempts to justify that there is no money at MUSIGA. \u201cYou can\u2019t tell me there is no money because I know some monies have come in from the government. There is nothing you can tell that you spent that money on that is more important than this. You can\u2019t tell me a concert at the stadium for fans to come jump to for free is more important than making sure [of] the welfare of musicians.\u201d<\/p>\n
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