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PRO for Charterhouse, Mr Robert Klah, has admonished Ghanaian musicians to clearly pinpoint all producers that worked on their projects anytime they are filing for nominations to avoid any misunderstanding.<\/p>\n
This comes up after a brouhaha emanated from Afriyie\u2019s\u00a0nomination in the \u2018Audio Engineer of the Year\u2019 category, for his work on his \u201cCountry Hot\u201d song in this year\u2019s VGMA in which he failed to inform the Board on the actual sound engineer of the song, thereby claiming the song to be his own production.<\/p>\n
Record producer, Wei Ye Oteng, called the VGMA Board out on Facebook, for nominating Afriyie in the \u2018Audio Engineer of the Year\u2019 category, instead of Appietus, the main sound engineer of the song \u2018Country Hot\u2019.<\/p>\n
For this reason, Oteng feels the works of music producers have been taken for granted in Ghana.<\/p>\n
\u201cHow do you put Afriyie Wutah\u00a0here as an audio engineer? Ahhh ayefo papa. You see why this craft will always be taken for granted? Come on let\u2019s give some respect to engineers. We work hard to achieve the greatness the masses enjoy, it\u2019s not an overnight magic. I\u2019m pissed. I don\u2019t care what your category definition is and I don\u2019t want to know, but chaley, let\u2019s be serious as an industry,\u201d his Facebook post read.<\/p>\n
On the heels of this, Robert Klah said Ghanaian artistes should do well to credit all their producers anytime they are filing for nominations since there is a space for all that on the forms.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen you check the categories, when it comes to producer it is producer or producers, when it is audio engineer it is audio engineer or engineers and even songwriter we have songwriter or songwriters which means that it is already acknowledged that sometimes it is not only one person. So if it is more than one person just put the name there the information will be taken and used,\u201d he told Andy Dosty on Daybreak Hitz.<\/p>\n
He also made it known that Afriyie stands a chance of being disqualified from the category, should the investigation go against him.<\/p>\n
The Vodafone Ghana Music Awards is set to come off on the 6th and 7th of May 2021 respectively at the Grand Arena.<\/p>\n
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