Formal highlife musician, Nana Kwame Ampadu, has revealed that the Ghanaian music industry is a very lucrative venture contrary to what others think of it.
Nana Kwame Ampadu said he disagreed with the fact that people think there was no money in doing music.
He made this assertion during a documentary shoot on Ghana Music Rights Organization (GHAMRO,) on Kaakyire Kwame Appiah’s set (2ka).
The ex-highlife legend also stated that “people think that if you choose to be a musician it means you have not taken a good job.”
According to him, GHAMRO is an organisation that seeks to the welfare of musicians and producers in the country.
He added that the documentary is to let the masses know that music is also a profession that one can earn a living from.
“We are shooting this documentary about musicians to let the people know that music is a job which one can earn money from and not with the perception that you will sing and die poor as people think,” he said.
He added that the documentary also seeks to alert people who use our songs to know that they have to pay for it which will eventually be shared among the musicians and producers.”
Nana Kwame Ampadu also revealed that he wrote the script for the documentary together with Kaakyire Kwame Appiah.
He further called on up and coming musicians to be disciplined in their line of action to attract the necessary respect in the industry.
“I want to advise all upcoming musicians to show decency in the music industry, especially their way of dressing, walking and talking, so that we (musicians) will also be respected out there,” he said.
Nana Ampadu, who is now an evangelist, disclosed that his calling came from God through the late Prophet Amoako.
“Prophet Amoako who is late gave me a prophecy in 1988 that God wants me to do his work but I did not do it, but apart from him a lot more men of God also gave me the same prophecy, and this time around I resolved to listen to them. I started preaching in 1994,” he disclosed.
He also revealed that he has started writing movie script and also books which contains the word of God which will be coming out soon.
“I have not stop singing but I do more of the preaching,” he asserted.
He advised Ghanaians to seek for God because without him you cannot do anything and succeed.
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