I think There is Corruption in the music industry - Award winning artist speaks on Buzy Fm (video)

Kenny N performing @ A.T.U

Music is a super sensual and surreal piece of art that can elevate minds and souls to a different plane of existence (yes, I will make love to music if I could). One might say music is one of the purest and priceless pieces of art which can be in comparison to the value and worth of the air that we breathe, but we live in an unfair world so this “celestial food of the mind and soul” must be commercialized so vessels (artists) from which music comes from can eat, survive and make more. In recent times, music has been institutionalized and measures put in place to help artists produce, promote and protect their art to a wider audience and make a little bank, to a simple mind, this is the right move, right?. Well, over the years, the institutions set up to help artists and their art in our beloved country Ghana seems to be failing. Corruption has leached on the industry's leadership like poverty on a lazy man, and it looks like the young in the industry seem to be catching on and have felt the heat of this failure.

Kenny N receiving an award at Nzema Showbiz Awards 2017

In an interview on the 4real Show hosted by Kweku Flava on “Buzy FM”, upcoming versatile artist “Kenny N”, who took home the Afropop/Dancehall artist of the year at the Nzema showbiz Awards 2017 and also the front line performing artist of Lo Kii Empire Records, spoke about corruption in the Ghana music industry. When asked about his views on corruption in the Ghana music industry, he said: “for me, I think that corruption cuts across, every industry in Ghana, there is a part where corruption takes place, I don’t think there is a particular place where there is no corruption, so yes, I think there is corruption in the industry”. These statements from this promising young artist made us (me and myself) wonder “is there something we should know?”

Over the years, various players have spoken about corruption in the industry and had campaigns to help curb corruption in the industry. In 2014, the then President of the Music Council of Ghana, Ekow Micah, said “There is a lot of corruption in the music industry which has affected music production and the lives of a large number of Ghanaian musicians”. After loads and loads of campaigns to help stop corruption, can we confidently say, we have curbed it?

So maybe, just maybe, this young artist “Kenny N” has a point here. 

Watch the interview below...