The Chief Executive Officer of Remedi Entertainment, Dan Lartey, has expressed concern about how the Telecel Ghana Music Awards (TGMA) has not shown keen interest in honouring and preserving the highlife genre.
According to him, the country and the award scheme give the least respect and honour to the Highlife genre; thus, many of the nominations for the awards were not Highlife music.
Speaking in an interview on the Max Morning Show in Accra on Monday, Dan Lartey indicated that there was the need for TGMA to make an exclusive award category like Highlife Album to whip up the interest of musicians to sing more highlife songs and produce more highlife albums.
” If you check album of the year or EP of the year, how many highlife albums do we have there?” he queried.
Dan Lartey explained that the EP and Album of the Year categories were currently part of the ultimate since Guinness Ghana had offered a cash prize to compel musicians to produce more albums to gain awards and cash prizes.
He maintained that if more efforts were geared towards honouring highlife songs and highlife singers, many musicians would sing more highlife songs to preserve the musical identity and culture of Ghana.
