Organizers of the Vodafone Ghana Music
Awards, Charter House has denied reports that they pay huge amount of
money to foreign artists to perform at the main event of the annual
Ghana Music Awards.
According to the Director of Productions at
Charter House, Nii Ayitey Hammond, all the international artists
including P-square, D’banj, Wizkid, Iyanya, Davido, Awilo and others who
have performed at the main event of Ghana Music Awards are not paid for
their services.
He disclosed to Bra Chef on Radio Univers that “if they are coming to perform at the awards night, they don’t charge us and we don’t pay them. All we do is, we ensure that we take care of their flight, their accommodations, their per diem and give them their honorarium because they understand that it is an awards night”.
He disclosed to Bra Chef on Radio Univers that “if they are coming to perform at the awards night, they don’t charge us and we don’t pay them. All we do is, we ensure that we take care of their flight, their accommodations, their per diem and give them their honorarium because they understand that it is an awards night”.
He continued that international artists are
paid commercial fees when they are hired for other concerts in Ghana
aside music awards.
He however stated that Ghanaian acts are paid commercial fees due them for their services at any of Ghana Music Awards events.
“Every Ghanaian act you see perform on any of the being it the nominees jam, the industry awards and the final events are paid”
“Obviously they will charge and us and we will negotiate so when we come into an agreement, then we put the money through” Nii Ayitey Hammond added.
The question remains, do you believe this? Let’s know you thoughts on this.
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