{"id":48957,"date":"2018-07-30T09:15:42","date_gmt":"2018-07-30T09:15:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.com\/gh\/?p=48957"},"modified":"2018-07-29T13:01:57","modified_gmt":"2018-07-29T13:01:57","slug":"radio-presenters-prematurely-retiring-veteran-musicians-lucky-mensah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/gh\/radio-presenters-prematurely-retiring-veteran-musicians-lucky-mensah\/","title":{"rendered":"Radio Presenters Prematurely Retiring Veteran Musicians &#8211; Lucky Mensah"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Veteran highlife artiste, Lucky Mensah voices his displeasure with DJs and radio presenters. Furthermore, according to him, DJs and Radio Presenters are killing the talents of veteran musicians. Also, they prematurely retire them from the music scene. He made these statements in interview with Graphic Showbiz.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Loneliness hit maker, most veteran musicians quit music and are not heard of again. Moreover, this is not because they wish to but because the attitude of DJs and presenters towards them have made it almost impossible to succeed.<\/p>\n<h4>Lucky Mensah on radio presenters retiring veteran musicians<\/h4>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201cRadio presenters and DJs prefer to push the new generation of artist. Therefore, they totally forget about the old generation making it almost impossible to promote your song. We the old musicians struggle a lot when we release songs, forcing a lot of them to retire prematurely.\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Also, he explained that this has been one of the contributing factors for his absence from the music scene. This was because he was not getting the needed support from the radio presenters to push his songs.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201cRadio presenters were very reluctant in pushing my last song and that made me take a long break from music.\u201d\u00a0<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Veteran highlife artiste, Lucky Mensah voices his displeasure with DJs and radio presenters. Furthermore, according to him, DJs and Radio Presenters are killing the talents of veteran musicians. Also, they prematurely retire them from the music scene. He made these statements in interview with Graphic Showbiz. 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