Renowned Ghanaian gospel artist Moses Osei Kwarteng, also known as Moses OK, has stated that most ancient musicians were robbed since they did not migrate their tracks to digital music shops early enough, resulting in them not making any money from their music through that medium.
Speaking about this in an interview with Akoma FM’s Entertainment 360 with Tony Best on Saturday, October 14, the musician stated that a few years ago, when music distribution had changed in almost every part of the world, including Ghana, some old musicians – of which he is a part – had no idea how to go about the new phase that music had taken.
“At one point, the music ministry went through another phase in which most of my colleagues had to migrate their songs to digital platforms, and for some of us, while the clock was ticking, we hadn’t prepared for it and didn’t even know much about it.”
“We used to send our cassettes to distributors and marketers in Kejetia and Kantamanto, as well as promotional copies to the few radio stations we had back then.”
“In fact, it was just recently that I found out that one needs to sign up with a recognised music distribution company that will distribute your songs on digital stores,” Moses remarked.
This year, the singer is pushing two tracks, Ene Me Nko and Asesa.
