Legendary musician Akablay has asserted that Ghana has a few musicians and those in the music industry are being acknowledged with a wrong title.
According to him, musicians are singers who can compose, produce, arrange, play instruments and could interpret music which only few could be found in the country.
Speaking in an exclusive interview with Max Drive on Max 89.7 FM in Accra on Wednesday, Akablay stated that the wrong titles given to singers are fetching money for them instead of the real musicians.
”In Ghana here, people have a misconstrued belief that singers are musicians so when they see a singer they acknowledge him or her as a musician. However, singers are not musicians. Some singers are musicians but not all the singers,” he said.
Akablay lamented how instrumentalists were not valued in the country and expressed an urgent need for various awards schemes, most especially Telecel Ghana Music Awards (TGMA) to acknowledge their efforts.
”Because instrumentalists are not valued in the country, singers turned out to make more money than instrumentalists but it is a different language in the outside world,” he said.
Citing the late foreign musician, Quincy Jones, he said the composer, producer and trumpeter was not renowned like Michael Jackson but he was richer than Michael Jackson, who was merely a singer.
