Do something lucrative aside music in Ghana- Kwaw Kese

Ghanaian musician, Emmanuel Kofi Botwe, affectionately called, Kwaw Kese has said plying music trade in the country does not pay.

For this reason, he has advised his colleague musicians to desist from concentrating solely on music, but have something lucrative doing on the side.

Kwaw Kese made this statement in an interview with Kingdom FM’s Fiifi Pratt recently and monitored by The Spectator.

According to him, musicians went to the studio, recorded and paid for promotion as well as shot expensive videos.

This notwithstanding, he said the returns from the music was nothing to write home about.

“When you are not doing something aside music in Ghana how do you fund all the processes leading to having a hit song and staying relevant?GHAMRO, which is the collection society is not efficient to collect and properly distribute what the artiste is entitled to,” he said.

He admitted there were some endorsement deals, among others artistes could get, but it was better to get a lucrative side job as a security to be able to cater for yourself, family and invest in the music.

According to the “Dondo”hit Maker, There was no music industry in Ghana, adding that everyone was doing his own manual for survival.

By Edem Mensah-Tsotorme