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World acclaimed guitarist, Ackah Blay has expressed worry about Ghanaians ingratitude towards good music.

He was resentful that the development deters musicians in Ghana from making good music.

He told Hitz FM’s MzGee on ‘Entertainment this Week’ that being a musician with international reputation comes with great prestige than it does in Ghana.

“It’s good to be a very good musician globally but I believe it’s hard to be a very good musician in Ghana so it makes the journey some kind of way but fortunately if you really do good and you put your business first definitely you will be recognized by people not from your country because as the saying goes, a good priest is not recognized in his own country,” he said.

Ackah Blay argued that young musicians have resorted to the kind of music we hear today to make ends meet adding that Ghanaians have concerned themselves with banging tunes than what depicts our culture.

“Its looking like Ghanaians don’t want to appreciate good music; we just want to go with anything that comes our way, instead of sticking to our own (delicacies) we would rather demean ours and choose that of others so it makes it difficult to produce good music.

You will not be appreciated and living life would be hard for you, that’s why most of the guys want to play what people would applaud to so they can make a living but I believe most of the young musician would have to love to do good music but if they look at the challenges, they would choose to do music just anyhow,” he added.

Ackah Blay opined that the difficulty the Ghana music industry is facing with has to do with the lack of music promoters, marketers, professional event organizers and visible distribution outlets.

“Here in Ghana, we do not have good concert organizers and promoters. All we have are guys around who want to do something to earn a living…here in this country the organizers think of themselves first before the products. We don’t have marketing outlets, we don’t have record labels,” he said.