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No artiste has ever sponsored the Ghana Music Awards – George Quaye boldly states
Renowned Ghanaian entertainment journalist and former Public Relations Officer (PRO) of Charterhouse, George Quaye has rebuffed claims by Ghanaian gospel singer, Jack Alolome that some artistes have sponsored the Ghana Music Awards activities since its inception.
Jack, in a conversation on UTV’s United Showbiz show, claimed that for a musician to get a nomination at the Ghana Music Awards, he or she must know someone among the board members to lobby on their behalf.
According to him, there are many times when gospel musicians have been snubbed when it comes to nominations and winning awards, regardless of how popular their songs were within the year under review. Jack Alolome further recounted how he missed out on a nomination with his fellow gospel musician, Herty Borngreat.
“With the gospel musicians, when you release a song, no matter how it thrives, if you don’t have an insider, it will be difficult to get a nomination. It could be that gospel artists who got nominated had insiders. When I released ‘Tomorrow By This Time’, it was very popular, even to date. It was between myself and Herty Borngreat.
“The information I got was that the lady and her husband were sponsoring the event tour at the time. My producer lobbied but later, I was told we didn’t get it because they [Herty Borngreat and her people] were sponsoring them [GMA].”
However, according to George Quaye, the claims are untrue, stating that no gospel musician has been disregarded during the nomination application. He also stated emphatically that no artiste in the history of the Ghana Music Awards has ever sponsored the awards scheme. George, who responded to the question of those who were behind the lobbies for artists revealed that the controversy of Ghana Music Awards board members to lobby on behalf of artists is a challenging issue they [board members] are tackling at the moment.
“I want to clarify something, and I am saying this on authority. No artist has ever sponsored the Ghana Music Awards. So, Herty Borngreat and her husband’s claims are not true. I am challenging them to come out and confirm if they did that, ” he said.
