{"id":110480,"date":"2019-08-29T09:48:00","date_gmt":"2019-08-29T06:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.com\/ke\/?p=110480"},"modified":"2019-08-29T06:07:59","modified_gmt":"2019-08-29T03:07:59","slug":"why-tedd-is-josiah-regretting-joining-music-industry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ke\/why-tedd-is-josiah-regretting-joining-music-industry\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Tedd is Josiah regretting joining music industry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Veteran producer Ted Josiah wishes he could have focused on his bag business than music.<\/p>\n<p>The veteran producer who was really big in early 2000 has come out to say music didn&#8217;t make him a lot of money and now he&#8217;s wishing he had started his business then.<\/p>\n<p>Tedd, who produced albums for artistes like\u00a0Gidi Gidi Maji Maji and Kalamashaka, says\u00a0he spent over 30 years doing and producing music but never received royalties from MCSK.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cThere are things you do and wish you started them earlier, like doing my bag business is much better than concentrating on doing music,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0he said.<\/p>\n<h3>Regrets<\/h3>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-90349\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2018\/12\/Tedd-Joka.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"860\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2018\/12\/Tedd-Joka.jpg 860w, https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2018\/12\/Tedd-Joka-300x209.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2018\/12\/Tedd-Joka-768x536.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 860px) 100vw, 860px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The father of one went on to add that his bag business would have made more money by far than how music has because it&#8217;s really growing.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cI love music but looking at finance, it has not been beneficial at all. I feel sorrow when I think about it,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0he said.<\/p>\n<p>Adding:<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cI am not a fan of sexually overt music, and I wouldn\u2019t want to make music that is only talking about sex. I wouldn\u2019t come to help them even if they asked me to because I wouldn\u2019t even understand how to do it.&#8221;\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Veteran producer Ted Josiah wishes he could have focused on his bag business than music. The veteran producer who was really big in early 2000 has come out to say music didn&#8217;t make him a lot of money and now he&#8217;s wishing he had started his business then. 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