{"id":1202885,"date":"2022-09-12T16:17:03","date_gmt":"2022-09-12T16:17:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/09\/12\/most-ghanaian-artistes-dont-have-contracts-with-managers-us-based-event-planner\/"},"modified":"2022-09-12T16:17:03","modified_gmt":"2022-09-12T16:17:03","slug":"most-ghanaian-artistes-dont-have-contracts-with-managers-us-based-event-planner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/09\/12\/most-ghanaian-artistes-dont-have-contracts-with-managers-us-based-event-planner\/","title":{"rendered":"Most Ghanaian artistes don\u2019t have contracts with managers \u2013 US-based event planner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/image-191-1024x733.png\" \/><\/p>\n<div id=\"article-text\">\n<p>Ghanaian US-based investor and event planner, Nana Gyimah, has bemoaned the lack of official contracts between most Ghanaian musicians and their managers.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, this was one of the biggest challenges for him during his Ghana to the World Concert that took place in the USA last year.<\/p>\n<p>He explained that because most musicians do not have a solid system or structure professionally, it becomes difficult to sign a contract with them, especially when booking them for shows.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on <strong>Joy FM<\/strong>\u2019s <strong>Showbiz A-Z <\/strong>with George Quaye, Nana Gyimah said \u201cI used to say it\u2019s not the issue of the artiste, but with time I have got to know. In every job, you do, you need to surround yourself with professional people who know the job, not people learning what you are also learning.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis limits artistes, and some don\u2019t even know how contracts work. If you ask most artistes if they have contracts with their managers, about 80% will tell you no,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"u8k2ZQQnxfA\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Most Ghanaian artistes don\u2019t have contracts with their managers \u2013 Nana Gyimah, CEO of Inside LLC\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/u8k2ZQQnxfA?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>According to Mr. Gyimah, the reason people do not prioritise such contracts is because Ghana\u2019s industry is like a hub. \u201cEveryone knows everyone and they think they are friends.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He said, unlike Nigerians who pay mind to the business side first, it\u2019s only a few Ghanaian artistes that have been able to structure their team professionally to put themselves on the map.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Gyimah explained that Nigeria projected more than seven of its musicians into the limelight in less than a year, yet Ghanaians are struggling to make it in the diaspora.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith those who have a team, you see them. We have about seven artistes who were discovered this year in Nigeria. They all have a global presence. How many can we count for our people? The same people headlining five years ago are still headlining in Ghana\u2026 just a few heads pop up,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Mr. Gyimah urged Ghanaians, especially those in the diaspora to gear up for part two of Ghana to the World Concert, which has many A-list Ghanaian artistes and entertainers billed on November 6, 2022, in the USA.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.myjoyonline.com\/most-ghanaian-artistes-dont-have-contracts-with-managers-us-based-event-planner\/\">Source<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ghanaian US-based investor and event planner, Nana Gyimah, has bemoaned the lack of official contracts between most Ghanaian musicians and their managers. According to him, this was one of the biggest challenges for him during his Ghana to the World Concert that took place in the USA last year. He explained that because most musicians [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1202886,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[2977,13082,342,684,1750,4352,12645,12337],"class_list":{"0":"post-1202885","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-artistes","9":"tag-contracts","10":"tag-dont","11":"tag-event","12":"tag-ghanaian","13":"tag-managers","14":"tag-planner","15":"tag-usbased"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1202885","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1202885"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1202885\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1202885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1202885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1202885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}