{"id":453584,"date":"2018-01-10T02:00:22","date_gmt":"2018-01-10T02:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2018\/01\/10\/2017-difficult-year-for-ghanas-showbiz-nigeria-posed-great-threat-george-quaye\/"},"modified":"2018-01-10T02:00:22","modified_gmt":"2018-01-10T02:00:22","slug":"2017-difficult-year-for-ghanas-showbiz-nigeria-posed-great-threat-george-quaye","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/01\/10\/2017-difficult-year-for-ghanas-showbiz-nigeria-posed-great-threat-george-quaye\/","title":{"rendered":"2017 difficult year for Ghana\u2019s showbiz, Nigeria posed great threat &#8211; George Quaye"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"medsection1\">\n<!-- End of html generated by this->header() --><\/p>\n<p class=\"floatLeft\">Entertainment of Wednesday, 10 January 2018<\/p>\n<p class=\"floatRight\"><strong>Source: <\/strong>abusuafmonline.com<\/p>\n<p>2018-01-10<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-left\">\n<p class=\"article-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/42323070.295.jpg\" alt=\"George Quaye Tickled\" title=\"George Quaye Tickled\" width=\"295\" height=\"197\" \/><span class=\"image_caption\"><span>George Quaye<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"noPrint\">\n<div id=\"537626303\" style=\"width:300;height:250;margin:0;padding:0\">\n<p>\t\t  <noscript><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"b2ad7fa7fd\" name=\"b2ad7fa7fd\" src=\"http:\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/afr?auid=537626303&amp;cb=151125813995117\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\"><a href=\"\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/rc?cs=b2ad7fa7fd&amp;cb=151125813995117\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/1515549622_413_ai\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/iframe><\/noscript><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"clear:right\">An entertainment critic, George Quaye, has said the year 2017 was a difficult one for Ghana\u2019s entertainment industry especially in the area of movies and outdoor events.<\/p>\n<p>According to Quaye, event organisers could not stand on their own strengths and had to rely on corporate sponsorship which was not easy to attract due to several limitations.<\/p>\n<p>George Quaye was speaking to Nana Hemaa, co-host of Abusua Mmr3, the mid-morning entertainment show on Abusua FM in Kumasi.<\/p>\n<p>He said, \u2018with our music, I think we did fairly well as and it was great. New artists were introduced into the industry and they also performed creditably well.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Artists such as The Kidi, Kwame Eugene, B4Bona, Ebony\u2026I mean you name them, they all did very well and made us proud,\u2019 he observed.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Shatta, Samini, Sarkodie, Stonebwoy all released great tunes and it added to their old achievements, I mean these are guys that are already celebrated in the industry.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Responding to why Ghanaian artists failed to make an impact on the international stage in terms of awards and recognition, George Quaye said it is one of the major challenge that needs to be highlighted.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Nigerian artists have always beaten their Ghanaian counterparts to awards and recognition and I am sure until we do something differently in terms of investments and others, we will hardly catch up.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>\u2018We can never compare ourselves to the Nigerian acts because they do more collaborations with artists from other countries to get recognized and our people here don\u2019t do that,\u2019 Quaye revealed.<\/p>\n<p>He has therefore called on Ghanaian artists to re-brand themselves well and do more collaborations as well.<\/p>\n<p><!-- uploaded by: 32 updated by: 32 --><\/p>\n<p><!-- Start of html generated by this->footer() -->\n<\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a style=\"display:none\" rel=\"follow\" href=\"http:\/\/megatheme.ir\/\" title=\"\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633\">\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Entertainment of Wednesday, 10 January 2018 Source: abusuafmonline.com 2018-01-10 George Quaye An entertainment critic, George Quaye, has said the year 2017 was a difficult one for Ghana\u2019s entertainment industry especially in the area of movies and outdoor events. According to Quaye, event organisers could not stand on their own strengths and had to rely on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":453587,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-453584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453584","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=453584"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453584\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=453584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=453584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=453584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}