I’m aiming for a BET award – Empress Gifty
Gospel Singer Empress Gifty Adorye says she is working assiduously to win a BET award soon.
“I will do my best to be on the red carpet of BET and take part. This is not about standing on the Red carpet alone but also be announced as winner,” she told Nana Romeo on Accra 100FM’s Entertainment Capital.
No Ghanaian gospel musician has been nominated at the BET awards and Empress Gifty is hoping to be the first.
She further bemoaned the rate at which Ghanaian musicians have to pay DJs and presenters payola before their songs are aired on TV and Radio.
Gifty observed that DJs are always reluctant to play musicians’ songs when payola is not paid, a situation she described as disturbing.
The ‘Aseda’ hitmaker observed that upcoming artistes who barely have money are left out of the payola fuss.
“Our main challenge as musicians in Ghana is payment of payola after a release before one can have his or her songs played on air,” she bemoaned.
For his part, the Chief Executive Officer of Speech Productions Enoch Agyapong said, “Payola is corruption because someone was fired for taking Payola from an artiste in South Africa”.
Source: classfmonline.com
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