Musician Ofori Amponsah has called on colleague musicians to start
boycotting awards schemes that do not provide anything valuable but just
plaques.
According to him, the musicians and their influence
is the reason why award organizers get access to money for sponsorship so if
there is nothing valuable than just a plaque, there is the need for artistes to
start boycotting award schemes.
To him, the focus on just awards has made a number of
artistes in the country poor and they have to beg before they can feed their
family.
For him, he has already taken a
stance on the issue but is calling on his colleagues to have a rethink because
they are enriching others while they continue to wallow in abject poverty.
“For me if someone calls me for an award and he/she
does not give me money I won’t go. If they won’t give me anything valuable I
won’t go. I past receiving plaques. I have decided and I’m calling on all my
colleagues to do the same or else they are the same people who will laugh at us
in the future. It’s because of the musicians the people who come to fill the
venue. It’s because of the musician that the sponsorship comes through. If
there is a programme and they can give out a house as the price, then why can’t
they do the same for artistes?” he said while speaking in an interview with
Accra-based Adom FM.
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