”Our time, we did not have proper recording studios in Northern Ghana, we had to travel to Accra, and use two nights to record an album. Social media was not popular in Northern Ghana back then, however, these days a musician can release a song via social media without going to a radio station.” –
Jamal Fantaface
Our time, we made physical money through album sales. It even serves as employment for other distributors in the districts across the region. These days you release songs and people across the world get to have access to it within seconds, back then, when people abroad needed your songs, you wait until someone comes home for a visit then you burn the Cds and give it to him/her to take along. We also didn’t have bloggers and the likes to write and publish stories”
G Kliff
“These days even underground acts have people who have been managing them, so there will come a time you won’t get to use underground acts for free.
Back then they used us for free, at a point we were even begging them to give us costume money, they would pay southern acts to come and perform but won’t pay us meanwhile the show is happening in the North, and we have fans here more than the South acts” – George Kliff
“Some people feel the industry is dying because they no longer get acts for free shows. Now every act knows the cost of a music video, so no one does a show for free.
When an act is still struggling to rise to the top, people take advantage of them, but they stay silent because they have no choice, once they rise to the top, and begin to fight for themselves they are tagged as disrespectful. To be honest, Northern musician don’t disrespect Djs/Presenters ” — Jamal Fantaface Bamba
