Marchisio Boateng
Ghanaian Highlife artiste and Chairman for the Ghana Music Right Organization [GHAMRO], Rex Omar, has stated that there is no music industry in Ghana.
Speaking in an interview over the weekend with Nana Kwesi Asare on Class 91.3 FM, Rex Omar said: “We don’t have an industry, we always use the word industry but we don’t have an industry, we are trying to create one.”
“Every artiste just goes to the studio and record; we don’t have the requisite financial to actually structure an artiste development and all that. We don’t have such thing… we use the word…but, in reality, we really don’t have an industry,” he added.
According to the Dadadida hit maker, our music industry is not well structured and lacks little or no knowledge about professional artiste management.
“That’s what is happening and everybody is trying to do what they can do because we don’t have an industry…we have people who call themselves artiste manager but very few of them know what artiste management is. Someone goes to the studio, he gets a hit song and calls his friend to manage him and what does his friend know about artiste management?” Rex Omar quizzed.
