{"id":55631,"date":"2018-11-01T10:11:53","date_gmt":"2018-11-01T10:11:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.com\/gh\/?p=55631"},"modified":"2018-10-31T12:15:43","modified_gmt":"2018-10-31T12:15:43","slug":"its-hard-being-a-gospel-artiste-in-ghana-erico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/gh\/its-hard-being-a-gospel-artiste-in-ghana-erico\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s Hard Being A Gospel Artiste In Ghana \u2013 Erico"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gospel artiste, Erico talks about gospel music. He bemoaned the difficulty in producing and working as a gospel musician in Ghana.<\/p>\n<p>Moreover, he stated that producers and the churches are unwilling to help gospel musicians. This is in terms of producing or promoting their music.<\/p>\n<p>He made these statements on Entertainment Capital on Accra 100.5 FM. Also, he noted that producers turn away from gospel to hiplife music.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201cHiplife has gained upper hand over gospel music in Ghana but we claim Ghana is a Christian nation. I don\u2019t know why people are investing more in hiplife than gospel music. When we talk about the issues of money in gospel music, people say, it\u2019s God\u2019s work, so why do we take or need money, but I also ask: \u2018what should we use to promote God\u2019s work\u2019? God\u2019s work is money and anything which will help with the gospel music is money.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cAnointing without money is an annoyance, you are just making noise. Somebody does not sing well, but because of his money, he\u2019s promoting his music and you\u2019ll think he\u2019s doing well, but there are better gospel musicians who have no money to promote their works\u2026\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>According to Erico, Ghanaians pretend to love gospel music. 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