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Shatta Wale calls for qualified individuals to help reshape the music industry
Popular dancehall artiste, Shatta Wale has stated that for there to be a total transformation of the Ghanaian music industry, there should be competent people at the helm of affairs who are appropriately educated on the music business.
According to Shatta Wale, he believes finding people with the right qualifications in the music business will go a long way to rebuilding the industry.
Speaking in a recent Twitter space hosted by news anchor, Serwaa Amihere, Shatta expressed that in order for the industry to see any growth, there should be the right people leading the music discourse.
“Are we ready as an industry to find people to be on spaces, radio stations, TV stations, properly with qualifications? People that we know that they’re not coming out of pain to come and talk pain.
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“Are we ready to fish out those people? Otherwise, then like I’m saying, we’ll have to look for our young graduates from these schools and start teaching them industry courses,” he said.
The “On God” hitmaker proposed training programmes for stakeholders in the music and entertainment industries so they can represent the interests of industry participants and draw in the much-needed capital and creativity.
“Those are the things that we need to do to even tell government that we need a school where we can train people to run our spaces for us. Because Austine, to be frankly speaking, you see where Serwaa is sitting, she’s qualified to be there, why? Because she has gone to school for it. You see where Kwame Sefa Kayi is sitting, he’s supposed to be there because he has done courses for what he’s doing.
“But these people we don’t know their qualifications. So before we can change this thing, it has to come with a whole orientation of people. Like the way we treat government, we have the power to change the people sitting there. We are the people, we have the power,” he added.
👨🏾🍳🇬🇭🎶: Shatta Wale believes there should be an uprising of ‘competent’ individuals at the helm of affairs who are properly oriented about the music business.
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