The Deputy Director of Creative Art Agency, Frank Owusu has hailed the Support Expansion of Ghana Music Industry (SEGMI) to be the game changer for Ghanaian artistes to reap the fruit of their labour unlike previous years, hence the need for them to really behind the project and wholly embrace it.

SEGMI is a two-year project which the Ghanaian Government through the Ministry of Tourism, Arts and Culture under the agency of the Creative Art Industry and the Government of France through the French Embassy have reached a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on to have Ghanaian creative art players like film makers, artistes, music producers, sound engineers, music directors, song writers, photographers, fashion designers, among others get trained on how to benefit from their art work.

The project which sort to ignite Ghana's creative spark and unleash the potential of Cultural and Creative Industries (CCIs) in Ghana, had its first tour dubbed the Ghana Creative Mixer took place in Cape Coast in the Central Region on Tuesday, December 5, 2023, at the Alliance Francaise office with a presentation of initiatives for creatives in Ghana and a workshop on copyright for participants.

The tour as scheduled will equally took place in Kumasi in the Ashanti Region on December 7 to conclude in Tamale in the Northern Region on December 9, 2023.

Frank Owusu speaking in an interview with Sompa News Eric Annan noted that in as much as a worker duly deserves his salary, seems different in the case of Ghanaian musicians who appears poor no matter the number of albums released, unlike abroad where a musician can turn a millionaire overnight by reason of releasing just one hit song.

Thus the need for Ghanaian artistes in particular to actively get involve to free themselves from their age-long shackles of poverty upon been schooled on copyright and its related issues.

Emily Meisel, the Project Manager for SEGMI elaborated the project to come in different components with its mean goal being to strengthen the Ghanaian music industry and to have a better remuneration for Ghanaian artistes.

Project Manager for Creative Africa Ghana which is also a project involving fifteen (15) African Countries, Marion Astier asserted her outfit to be working on bridging the gap between artistry and entrepreneurship to foster innovation and create job opportunities for persons in the cultural and creative art industry.

Source//Sompaonline.com/Eric Annan