GHAMRO Making Ghanaian Artistes Poor - Mix Master Garzy

Mix Master Garzy has accused the Ghana Music Rights Organisation (GHAMRO) of not fulfilling its duties.

The music producer claimed that the neglect of duties by GHAMRO has driven many entertainers into poverty because of their lack of organisation.

According to him, there is no proper structure for musicians in the country to earn from their works legitimately.

Musicians are now forced to make their own money-making avenues despite the presence of the regulatory body.

GHAMRO is not well equipped to properly account for songs that are being played in various parts of the country he noted.

“I have not received any GHAMRO royalties yet because our system does not function properly. Musicians are suffering a lot. When you are on the international royalty system, you’ll be given an email as soon as you sign up."

They will be giving you up to the minute updates on wherever your songs are played. But here in Ghana, the systems are not in place so we cannot even track where songs are played. GHAMRO does nothing in that reference,” he told GhanaWeb’s Elsie Lamar on Talkertaiment.

“They go and collect monies from pub owners and distribute it to some few artistes they deem relevant. They don’t even give breakdown reports on how songs are played. All they do is to ask whether you have MoMo and then they send you some chicken change" he explained.

Mix Master Garzy further claimed that Ghanaian musicians including Guru, Hammer, Trigmatic and many others have called for an investigation into the operations of the music rights society to no avail.

He concluded that the body will continue to remain useless as long as nothing is done to it.