Month: December 2018

Rufftown Records signee, Wendy Shay ended her 2018 run with an album. The “Bedroom Commando” hit maker launched her “Shay On You” album

The launch happened inside the Golden Tulip Hotel in Accra. Radio and television personality, Caroline Sampson hosted the event. Moreover, several industry players and musicians as well as family of Wendy Shay were there to support the launch.

Sefa, Adina, Keche and Nana Boro performed on the night of the launch.

Wendy Shay’s uncle, who was present at the event, bought a copy of the album for a whooping Gh50,000. Also, the Deputy Communications Director, Sammy Awuku and six others purchased copies of the album for Gh 25,000.

The singer reportedly made at least Gh225,000  in total from several purchases of the album at the launch.

“Shay On You is a ten-track album and includes highlife, afrobeat, dancehall, and other music genres. It is available on all music streaming platforms.

Africa’s most decorated rapper, Sarkodie has new music and video for his fans. Moreover, the song emphasizes his position he occupies in the rap game.

The songs comes a few days ahead of his annual Rapperholic Concert.The new song is a lyrically blistering one titled Rush Hour.

Rush Hour is replete with braggadocio and interesting lyrical shots. Furthermore, these shots are at his opponents.

This year is great for Sarkodie. He just released the song ‘Biibi ba’ with upcoming artistes.

Prince Dovlo directed the official video to the song.

Watch the video here:

Ghanaian rapper, Sarkodie speaks on the perception that he is stingy. A while back, he took to Twitter to ask for a cast to feature in his music video. However, it wasn’t a paid gig rather the people get “free exposure” as a result of working with him.

Fans came after him calling him stingy for not willing to pay for a cast.

However, in a recent interview on Hitz FM, Sarkodie cleared the air stating that he is not willing to please people on social media. H e also added that people calling him stingy is their perception.

“That whole stingy whatever it’s just social media … I can’t feel well trying to please people, you know, so I’m not going to be on social media trying to act like I am not stingy, that’s your perception of what you have about me, I know myself so that’s not a big deal” 

Accra FM’s ‘Entertainment Capital Show’ host, DJ Premier speaks up about celebrities in Ghana. Moreover, he lashed out at a section top Ghanaian celebrities. According to him, they decide to always appear on some selected radio stations of their choice.

However, it seems this phenomena bothered the radio DJ. Therefore, he spoke about it in a Facebook post.

According to DJ Premiere, many of these celebrities only grant live studio interviews with their selected radio stations. However, they forget that the songs they go to these stations to talk about are also promoted by them. Also, he stated that he has been chasing some top musicians for over three years without any positive result. However, these musicians granted over three interviews on a single radio station in less than three months.

The award-winning radio DJ ended his rant with the caution that such musicians should be careful. He stresses that they should know that everybody in the industry should have a win at a point in time and as such, the musicians should also try to come on their shows sometimes, just like they do for their favorite radio stations.

Ghanaian actress, Salma Mumin celebrated her birthday a couple of days ago. Therefore, she threw herself a very lavish birthday party at her newly opened food joint, Salma’s Eatry

Moreover, before her party, she received huge public backlash after she posted her nude watermelon pictures.

However, she got together with a few family members and friends together to have some fun. The party started with a wonderful saxophone performance that surely was beautiful.

Also, the actress received a beautifully painted portrait of herself during the party couldn’t hide her joy but heap a lot of praises on the guy who did the magic with his pencil.

Head Pastor of Practical Christian Church in Grand Prairie Texas, Dr. Adom Tufuor was generous. Moreover, he surprised members of his church with envelopes of money.

The man of God acknowledges that Christmas is a period of giving. Therefore, as a true believer, his decision to dip his hand in his own coffers to give members of his church the substantial amount of dollars as their Christmas presents.

In the video, Dr. Tufuor dashes the envelopes he removes from his ‘big’ pocket to over twenty members of his church with the top up of blessings of God. Even though some members of the church did not receive their share of the ‘sweet cake’, Dr, Adom Tufour promised to bless them later.

Zylofon Media signed actress, Bibi Bright has great news. Five months into her marriage with her lovely hubby, Akwasi Boateng, the actress is heavily pregnant. Moreover, this comes barely eight months after she gave birth to her daughter, Imela.

Furthermore, the actress has been off the TV screens for some time now. This is probably because of her pregnancy. She was at the end of year town hall meeting and launch organized by the Creative Arts Council in Accra

This is baby number three for the secretary of the Creative Arts Council as she is already the mother of two lovely girls.

Ghana Music Right Organisation (GHAMRO) announced payment of royalties to its members in December. Moreover, the payment of royalties to its members is in accordance with the Copyright Law 2005. Also, its regulatory Legislative Instrument (L.I 1962) GHAMRO.

An amount of GH¢700,000 will be distributed to its members.

Furthermore, the disbursement of royalties will be done through bank transfers and mobile money payments.

In a statement, GHAMRO said it created awareness among the public about the need to pay music royalties. This is in order to increase the amount of money pay to its members.

Therefore, they urged all commercial music users to apply to GHAMRO for a licence. This was in order to regularise their use of musical works.

The organisation said its management and members of the board are currently working tirelessly to secure the interest of musicians in the country.

“GHAMRO is very grateful for the patience exhibited by its members in the face of the delay and assure them of doing everything in our power to protect their interest”

Organisers of the 2018 edition of Ghana Movie Awards (GMA) postpone the event. Moreover, it’s not this weekend as announced earlier.

Organisers postponed the ceremony to next week Sunday, December 30, 2018.

Furthermore, this announcement is after recommendations by some entertainment journalists who form part of this year’s board of academy for the awards.

The decision to postpone the event was at a meeting in Accra.

Moreover, they stated the move was in good faith to assist the organisation present a great show on December 30.

GMA is for the recognition of excellence in the Ghanaian movie industry.

Last weekend, GMA released nominations for the award and a number of Ghanaian movies and filmmakers made the list.

Ghanaian musician, Stephanie Benson talks about her children. Moreover, this was after an impressive show at the Asian TV Awards UK with her children Alexandra and Natalia.

However, she hinted that she was looking to auction her two beautiful children to billionaires.

The Ghanaian-UK based jazz singer always pulls when everyone least expect. She spoke about this on an Instagram post.

“My very successful independent children are the best things I have ever achieved in life but have too much to make time to find a husband. So I tried to auction them off to the highest bidder in a room full of millionaires and billionaires. Don’t come and kill me ohhh they already tried… African parents can’t help it”