Great Ampong claims that the inability to release a song for many years has been caused primarily by financial difficulties.
The extended departure of veteran gospel musician Great Ampong from the Ghanaian music industry has been attributed to hard times, according to Isaiah Kwadwo Kwakye, also known as Great Ampong.
“Money is a factor, it is the reason I have not released a song in the past seven years. You spend about 700 million on a song now. The only money we had was for feeding and for housekeeping you can’t use that to record a song in a studio,” he disclosed.
“Because of modernization, you can’t sell CDs again so how do you pay the person helping you those times when we were promoting songs is passed,” he added.
He told Nyansa Boakwa on Happy FM’s ‘Obra Yi’ edition of the ‘Nsem Pii’ show that money is everything in the music industry and without it no musician can thrive for long.
Despite the fact that the sale of hard drives and flash drives has been discontinued due to modernization, he noted
“The online portals don’t fetch your money, and there is no producer who would invest money into a musician and hopes to get profit from online sales.”
He insisted that as long as other gospel musicians collaborated honestly, he would be open to doing so.
“If the person comes with good terms I would cooperate because people have cheated me a lot,” he said.
