FEATURE: Ghana music industry needs a TEACHER NOW.

I have heard many artistes and managers (including myself) cry for help from Government and investors (herein after referred to as Rich People) to come save us in our business called: 'Showbiz'.

The meaning of our name first of all is to 'show off what we don't have while we do the business'; that alone puts us in a box for an investor or the government to look at us with double eyes.


Aside the fact that we don't have proper structures for our kind of business we do, we hardly understand what we do as a people. Well, not every one, so let me say some of us hardly understand what we do as managers, PR and so forth.

When an investor calls us for a business meeting and asks the question, what do we need in-order to do what we do best; that question has over a thousand answer, most of it centers around payola, how to get a hit single, sell albums and live well (welfare).

When the investor asks: "What do i get in return" - Some managers in the business till date are yet to crack that code.

So i am writing this piece because i heard that the government has given some money to the creative Arts Council to work with and already creative arts people are divided.

You see why our cry for help is never taken serious. Instead of us to take our misunderstanding offline (off radio, TV and online) so that we can resolve our differences and later meet the government with a unified front we are destroying ourselves in the media.

We cry for investors, we cry for help every time but the moment help comes, we become lions eating each other up.

I don't think the people working in the creative arts council are involving the other sectors of the creative arts to find out what we need as an industry.

We need to stop our selfish, 'i did it first attitude' and involve people who have experience and are in the field to discuss what we need as a people.

"Is a professional music studio what we need now as creative arts"? "Why cant we also have a professional studio now"?

The above are two questions open for debates but it should be done offline. Our Ghana music industry needs a teacher, one that can take us through the right syllabus as an industry.

My question is; who will bring this teacher and will people even trust him / her that much to teach us?

All we think about is our pocket and immediate term projects. Ghana Music industry needs a teacher and it needs one now.