{"id":1209656,"date":"2022-09-23T11:09:33","date_gmt":"2022-09-23T11:09:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/09\/23\/i-didnt-profit-even-though-i-wrote-8-of-obaapa-christys-albums-ex-husband\/"},"modified":"2022-09-23T11:09:33","modified_gmt":"2022-09-23T11:09:33","slug":"i-didnt-profit-even-though-i-wrote-8-of-obaapa-christys-albums-ex-husband","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/09\/23\/i-didnt-profit-even-though-i-wrote-8-of-obaapa-christys-albums-ex-husband\/","title":{"rendered":"I didn&#8217;t profit even though I wrote 8 of Obaapa Christy&#8217;s albums &#8211; Ex-husband"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/1663931373_721_WhatsApp-Image-2022-09-23-at-9.43.32-AM-1024x614.jpeg\" \/><\/p>\n<div id=\"article-text\">\n<p>The ex-husband of gospel musician Obaapa Christy says he has not received any financial benefits from his role in some of the musician\u2019s works.<\/p>\n<p>Pastor Love Kweku Hammond insists that even though he wrote eight of the musician\u2019s songs, no profits have come to him.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think I wrote 8 songs for my [ex] wife,\u201d he said, adding that the structures back then were not favourable in tracking revenues.<\/p>\n<p>He was speaking to Afia Tamakloe on the M\u2019ahyease TV show.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<p><div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"DBE0xT14R4c\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"One-on-One with Pastor Love | Song Writer\/Head Pastor | Action Grace Chapel Int. | Mahyease TV Show\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/DBE0xT14R4c?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p>\u201cI can say that at that time, music wasn\u2019t fetching money. We were not making money at that time. We gave the song to someone to produce it, the reason we didn\u2019t make money They say there is something called royalties but nothing came out of it. There was no money,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>According to Pastor Love, his prowess in songwriting helped catapult his former wife, then-Christiana Love, into the stellar career she has seen so far.<\/p>\n<p>The duo has been apart for about 11 years.<\/p>\n<p>However, Pastor Love says he has about four artistes he is currently working with to help promote in the music scene.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.myjoyonline.com\/i-didnt-profit-even-though-i-wrote-8-of-obaapa-christys-albums-ex-husband\/\">Source<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The ex-husband of gospel musician Obaapa Christy says he has not received any financial benefits from his role in some of the musician\u2019s works. Pastor Love Kweku Hammond insists that even though he wrote eight of the musician\u2019s songs, no profits have come to him. \u201cI think I wrote 8 songs for my [ex] wife,\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1209613,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[10187,20177,2273,2944,12889,3538,8201],"class_list":["post-1209656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-albums","tag-christys","tag-didnt","tag-exhusband","tag-obaapa","tag-profit","tag-wrote"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1209656","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=1209656"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1209656\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1209656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1209656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1209656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}