{"id":464519,"date":"2018-02-15T09:30:18","date_gmt":"2018-02-15T09:30:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2018\/02\/15\/it-is-prudent-for-managers-to-date-artistes-okraku-mantey\/"},"modified":"2018-02-15T09:30:18","modified_gmt":"2018-02-15T09:30:18","slug":"it-is-prudent-for-managers-to-date-artistes-okraku-mantey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/02\/15\/it-is-prudent-for-managers-to-date-artistes-okraku-mantey\/","title":{"rendered":"It is prudent for managers to date artistes &#8211; Okraku-Mantey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"medsection1\">\n<!-- End of html generated by this->header() --><\/p>\n<p class=\"floatLeft\">Entertainment of Thursday, 15 February 2018<\/p>\n<p class=\"floatRight\"><strong>Source: <\/strong>Myjoyonline.com <\/p>\n<p>2018-02-15<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-left\">\n<p class=\"article-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/80890304.295.jpg\" alt=\"Mark Okraku Mantey1\" title=\"Mark Okraku Mantey1\" width=\"295\" height=\"189\" \/><span class=\"image_caption\"><span>Chief Executive Officer of Slip Entertainment Mark Okraku-Mantey<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"clear:right\">Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Slip Entertainment Mark Okraku-Mantey holds the strong view that it is prudent for an artiste manager to date his female artiste.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, considering the country&#8217;s music terrain, it is the surest way for the manager to safeguard his investments in the artistes.<\/p>\n<p>While stressing that he has not dated any female artiste he has worked with in his over two decades in the music industry, Mr Okraku-Mantey says an amorous relationship between two is the way to go.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m talking based on the environment as in Ghana,\u201d the renowned producer told Andy Dosty in an interview on Daybreak Hitz on Hitz FM.<\/p>\n<p>The head of the Creative Arts Council added that, if that is not the case, \u201csome man will sit in his house and take decisions for you because you have invested in his wife and he will call the shots\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u2026and because your money is in there, you will conform whether it will help your investment or not,\u201d or else the man will say she won\u2019t work with the manager anymore.<\/p>\n<p>Mark Okraku-Mantey won\u2019t be the first manager to make such a recommendation.<\/p>\n<p>CEO of Bullhaus Entertainment, Lawrence Asiamah Hanson, popularly known as Bulldog, had also urged that managers to establish sexual relationships with their female artistes to succeed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPrimarily, if you want to manage a female artiste successfully, you have to be in a relationship; an emotional relationship and a sexual relationship with the artiste,\u201d he told Andy Dosty on Daybreak Hitz on Hitz FM.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou won\u2019t succeed if you don\u2019t do that,\u201d he stressed.<\/p>\n<p>Bulldog also said he \u201cwon\u2019t encourage a married man to be managing a female artiste because he might ruin his marriage.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!-- uploaded by: 65 updated by: 65 --><\/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 Thursday, 15 February 2018 Source: Myjoyonline.com 2018-02-15 Chief Executive Officer of Slip Entertainment Mark Okraku-Mantey Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Slip Entertainment Mark Okraku-Mantey holds the strong view that it is prudent for an artiste manager to date his female artiste. 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