Month: April 2018

Appietus charges the industry.

Renowned sound Engineer, Appiah Dankwah, popularly known as Appietus suggests that people in the Creative Arts Industry must stand up. Furthermore, take actions against the government by demonstrating.

He made these statements at the maiden edition of Zylofon Music industry party.

Moreover, Appietus said well-meaning industry players must advocate for structures to be put in place. This is for the proper running of affairs of the various unions and Associations under the creative arts. Therefore, to improve the welfare of members and enhance appreciable growth in the entertainment industry.

Also, the sound engineer mentioned that the president promised the industry during his campaign in 2016. The president stated that he will task division of the High Court to focus on the Creative Arts. Also, to deal with all matters relating to intellectual property rights, and a dedicated enforcement unit. However, after fifteen months there is no action plan portraying the President’s commitment to his promise.

Moreover, Appietus lamented that industry people often meet to discuss challenges and suggest practical solutions. However, they seldom see the light of day.

“We meet and talk plenty but after we go home nothing happens. It’s time to take actions, we should demonstrate to show our rights and tell people in Government what they need to do to help the industry.

GHAMRO, MUSIGA and other organizations can not fight piracy alone so government must help enforce the laws.”

MzVee clears the air.

Songstress, MzVee condemns reports linking her to a supposed sex tape. Moreover, this tape is circulated on social media.

Furthermore, there is a tape currently shared on social media and several WhatsApp groups.

However, a lot of news sites and blogs link the lady in the video to her. This is due to the fact that the lady has a natural afro hair like she does.

However, the songstress condemned the reports and act. She stated this in a tweet. Moreover, MzVee indicates that her brand does nor encourage pornography and that she is not the lady in the leaked tape.

MzVee’s tweet about sex tape

“Let’s get serious here. Not only are nudity and pornography against everything my brand stands for, but it’s also a crime and shouldn’t be joked with. Please don’t spread any rumours linking me to any sex tape or nude pictures when it’s clearly not true”.

Ibrah is in trouble with the authorities.

Ghanaian multimillionaire, Ibrah One was in police custody. Furthermore, it was for allegations of money laundering.

Moreover, he’s known for his mindblowing wealth and extravagant displays on social media.

The police picked up Ibrah One at his plush East Legon mansion. Apparently, he might be extradited to the United States to stand trial.

Moreover, according to sources, he rips money from young guys who deal with him. However, this time he took money and refused to pay.

Also, he ripped $400K from this unknown young man. However, he told him he won’t be able to do anything over the issue.

Moreover, there’s a video circulating social media. The video shows his arrest and other details.

Heloo_stephen recorded the video. Moreover, it shows shreds of evidence of the young millionaire trying to escape to South Africa whereby he bought an economy class ticket.

Watch the video of Ibrah arrest

https://youtu.be/QKQwo0WaJ9M

The VGMA’s are over. However, people still have qualms about it.

A lot of people keep questioning the credibility of Vodafone Ghana Music Awards. Furthermore, a gospel musician, Bra Paul of Tetelestai fame has some frustrations with the awards.

Moreover, the artiste accused Charter House of killing and frustrating talents in Ghana. According to him, VGMA is the most enviable award scheme in Ghana. However, it has contributed massively to the collapse of artistes’ careers over the years.

Bra Paul about VGMA leading to collapse

“I commend Charter House for a successful event once again. But, I believe they are doing the opposite of their aim. This is to reward and encourage musicians to work hard in order to put the Ghanaian music on international platforms. I am a concerned musician and I can’t just keep mute on some of this issues.

Though I am not a secular artiste, I don’t think I would be encouraged to do more if I was Medikal who after being nominated in about seven different categories but won none. The mockery he had after the awards alone can deter him.

Take Patapaa and wutah last year, which songs were bigger than theirs in the category they found themselves? Why this frustration VGMA?

Many musicians have given up on their careers after an award scheme(VGMA) which should be rewarding efforts failed to recognize them, this alone is frustrating.

In fact, I was shocked last Saturday with some of the results I heard, this is Just not fair to some of our hard working musicians. It’s about time we set up our own award’s scheme as gospel musicians because the kind of treatment we get every year is just uncalled for. They always bench us together with these secular acts in the same category and in the end, give all the awards the secular artistes creating the impression that, gospel musicians are just lazy.

More on his comments

In the year under review, my song (Tetelestai) together with Patience Nyarko’s ‘obi nnyani me’ and Akwasi Nyarko’s ‘bo mpae’ made the most waves as gospel songs but in the end, Akwasi Nyarko and myself weren’t nominated and now Patience didn’t win an award? This is shocking.

We are building industry together. However, with such untruthfulness, we will only collapse as an industry and I am very worried about this trend.

The gospel minister further encouraged all musicians not to lose hope anytime they are ‘mafied’ by Charter House.

“I would like to encourage my fellow musicians to not to give up anytime they are denied any award. However, let’s keep working harder and the Lord himself will reward us in the good time.”

Kumi Guitar calls out Captain Planet.

Zylofon Music signee, Kumi Guitar says his music video ‘Dream’ should have won the ‘Best Music Video’ on the night.

Furthermore, he explained that Captain Planet’s ‘Obi Agye Obi Girl’ music video didn’t deserve the award. Moreover, his music video was far better in terms of video quality than ‘Obi Agye Obi Girl’.

Also, Kumi Guitar stated stated that the songwriter of the year award should have be given to him.

“I stood the chance of winning all four categories. However, songwriter and video of the year should have gone to me. I had most legends in the video I shot, we put a lot of effort into it and it came out very well. Compared to all videos in the category, My dream video was the best. However, I don’t know why it went to a different person.

Also with the songwriter, If you study how I wrote the song and how it was arranged, I should have won it. Anybody who first listens to the Dream song will think it is a love song but you will later realise it is about highlife music genre and that is the mark of a good songwriter.

I don’t really know why I didn’t win any of them, maybe it’s because of the votes.” 

Juliet Ibrahim talks at a conference.

Actress, Juliet’s The Juliet Ibrahim Foundation is an affiliate organization of IKCC. Therefore, she attended the Annual International Kidney Cancer coalition conference in Mexico City.

Furthermore, the actress and humanitarian, Juliet Ibrahim is the Global World Kidney Cancer Day Ambassador. The announcement came last year June.

Moreover, the official date for World kidney cancer day is June 21st.

This year, Juliet Ibrahim was one of the speakers during a session in the conference. The session was “Social Media Training for the Patient Organizations”.

She shared her knowledge in this field as a social media brand influencer and brand ambassador.

Photos of the founder of the Juliet Ibrahim Foundation and her representatives Sonia Ibrahim (Co-Founder), Moses Portuphy (Projects Manager) and Samuel Anakwah (Official Videographer) with other attendees of the conference.

Socrate Safo offers his two cents.

Controversial movie director, Socrate Sarfo wades into the endless debate from the just ended Vodafone Ghana Music Awards.

Furthermore, the awards has come under debate. This is about the various categories and their winners. Moreover, a lot of people give their opinion on who should have won.

Socrate Safo made his comments to TV Africa’s entertainment desk reporter, Araba Aggrey.

According to the Director of Creative Arts, the Tamale based artiste, Fancy Gadam was his pick for the category of artiste of the year. Moreover, this was due to the definition of the category. Therefore, it should have been Fancy Gadam and not Ebony.

Socrate Safo on Artiste Of the Year winner

“I think that even somebody like Fancy Gadam was robbed of one key category which is the artist if the year. Per the definition of artist of the year… if you look at the definition, Fancy Gadam stands poles apart from all the nominees there.

Can you pin point any of the nominees there including the ultimate winner, Ebony who did half of what he [Fancy Gadam] did?” 

However, he congratulated Charter House for a splendid concept. Moreover, he added that it wasn’t rare for any music award show to receive a backlash, critique, criticism or setbacks. Therefore, his comments clearly passes as one of them.

“I think the VGMA is a good concept and it has its own challenges like any award scheme the world over; so its normal when in Ghana we have our VGMA’s and people are not happy, but in the end we are all winners.”

Fancy Gadam gets hero’s welcome.

Musician, Fancy Gadam went back to his people in Tamale after winning two awards at the 2018 VGMA. The people in Tamale gave him a triumphant welcome.

Furthermore, the celebrations started from the Tamale Airport. Also, a mammoth crowd followed him through the principal streets of Tamale. Moreover, motorbikes displayed some wild skills.

Fancy Gadam visited the chiefs and elders of Tamale to thank them for their support and prayers. After, he took to his Facebook page to share with his fans what went on.

Gadam’s post on Facebook

“Tamale Gukpenaa and Tamale Dakpema ! Two great Kings in our kingdom told me they personally voted for us to win!”

His ‘Total Cheat’ song ‘beat’ Patapaa’s ‘One Corner’ to win the ‘Most Popular Song’ award at the 2018 Vodafone Ghana Music Awards.

Check out photos of his triumphant welcome in Tamale

Charter House calls out Pataapa

Charter House, organizers of the Vodafone Ghana Music Awards, called on Patapaa. Furthermore, they want him to apologize for his claim that the board took a bribe to cheat him out of winning the most popular song of the year award.

According to PRO George Quaye, Patapaa should provide evidence of his assertion or apologize to the organization for tarnishing their image.

Moreover, after the VGMAs, Patapaa lashed out at Charterhouse. He claimed they had taken a bribe to give his rightful award to Fancy Gadam.

However, Quaye said the singer should walk back his claim and apologize to Charterhouse.

Charter House telling Pataapa to apologize

“If Patapaa has an evidence of us taking money from any nominee, he should release. Otherwise, he should apologise to the board, academy and the general public for that comment.

We will release the votes very soon so that we all see how everybody performed on the night. It is a very unfortunate statement from him.”

Praye is back together with a new manager.

Hiplife trio, Praye are back together. Furthermore, this is after years of a split between the group.

Moreover, they have a new manager. The manager is Kiki Banson who used to manage Becca.

Also, the group performed together at the VGMA.

Moreover, Choirmaster, a member of the group made some statements to Citi FM’s Kwame Dadzie on Celebrity Radar.

He stated that the group is back for good.

Praye’s reunion with new manager, Kiki Banson

“We’ve resolved our issues. There is no confusion anymore. We are ready to play as a group and I have always said that when there is that opportunity to perform with my former group, I don’t see anything wrong with that. I know there are a lot of opportunities to follow what we did at the VGMAs.

My manager, the manager of the other team in addition to Kiki Banson who is fronting the whole thing, have really helped in making this happen.

For now, we are working with Kiki Banson, Jerry Bonsu and another person. They are three.” 

The group’s performance at the music awards was filled with super excitement and nostalgia as they thrill music fans to their old hit songs.

Background

The Praye group comprises of Choirmaster, Kente and Big J Cartel. The group was formed in 2004 after they emerged winners of the maiden edition of the Nescafe African Revelations talent hunt.

They produced hit songs such as ‘Shordy,’ ‘Angela,’ ‘Jacket’, among others.

In 2014, members of the group went their separate ways but two of them (Kente and Big J) came back later to keep the group.