The Ghana Music Rights Organisation (GHAMRO) has said it will pay royalties to the family of the late Nana Ampadu for the next 70 years. The “Obra” hitmaker died on Tuesday, 28 September 2021, at the Legon Hospital in Accra where he was receiving treatment for an illness. He was 76. Nana Kwame Ampadu has numerous popular highlife tracks …
Over the years, Ghanaian artistes have been complaining about the failure of Ghana Music Rights Organisation (GHAMRO) to pay artistes their deserving royalties. For clarity sake, GHAMRO as an organization is responsible for the collection and distribution of royalties to musicians and all other creative workers inclusive. Now, rapper Desmond Blackmore popularly known as D Black has joined the list …
Ghanaian rapper and songwriter Enoch Nana Yaw Oduro-Adjei better known as Trigmatic has made an appeal to the Ghana Music Rights Organization (GHAMRO) to take seriously the business of collecting and distributing royalties for artistes in Ghana. He believes the time has come to move on from the old structure and way of doing things. The outfit which is responsible …
Chairman of the Ghana Music Rights Organisation (GHAMRO), Rex Owusu Marfo, known in the music scene as Rex Omar, has revealed that the organisation has sued telecommunications companies in the country for using the intellectual property of musicians without paying royalties to the organisation. According to him, the court cases were filed against MTN, Vodafone and Airtel/Tigo in 2017 for …
A special audit of the accounts of the Ghana Music Rights Organisation (GHAMRO), supervised by the Auditor General, has alleged that a total of GH¢ 2,339,272.79 is yet to be fully accounted for. The audit was conducted on the accounts of the organisation from 2012 to 2016 as a result of agitations from some members who demanded to know the …
Versatile music artiste, Edem, has stated in an interview on e.TV Ghana’s ‘The Late Nite Celebrity’ Show’ that the Ghana Music Rights Organization (GHAMRO) pays him royalties once in a blue moon. ‘’GHAMRO pays me royalties once in a thousand years. But I mean it is a start, its nothing you can write home about.” ‘’If as an ‘A’ list …
Ghanaian highlife artiste, K.K Fosu has hinted of his intentions to become the next chairman of the Ghana Music Rights Organisation (GHAMRO). He told Nana Kwesi Asare on ‘The Big Show’ on Class91.3FM on Saturday, 9 March 2019 that, he wants to be the chairman of GHAMRO in order to control royalties of the organisation to enable members get well-paid. …
GhanaWeb today witnessed the remarkable reconciliation between Ruftown Records CEO, Ricky Osei Agyemang, popularly known as Bullet and father of the late Ebony Reigns, Nana Opoku Kwarteng. Nana Opoku Kwarteng and Bullet have been hostile towards each other since Ebony’s death, resulting in all kinds of allegations made against each other. Ebony’s father once claimed the Ruftown Records’ CEO …
