{"id":107115,"date":"2015-04-10T13:08:47","date_gmt":"2015-04-10T13:08:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=107115"},"modified":"2015-04-10T13:08:47","modified_gmt":"2015-04-10T13:08:47","slug":"foreign-artistes-perform-at-vgma-for-free-charter-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=107115","title":{"rendered":"Foreign artistes perform at VGMA for free \u2013 Charter House"},"content":{"rendered":"

Event organizers, Charter House, has denied reports that it pays foreign artistes who perform at the Vodafone Ghana Music Awards<\/strong><\/a><\/span> (VGMA) more than it does Ghanaian musicians.<\/p>\n

According to the Public Relations Officer (PRO) of the company,\u00a0George Quaye foreign artistes who perform at the award show do it for free.<\/p>\n

[contextly_sidebar id=”iSQCq0EDpaGlQGu0BpnmpQmgWad2Jw0b”]He explained that such artistes consider their performances as \u201cconvention,\u201d hence do not demand for payment or whatsoever.<\/p>\n

Mr Quaye said Charter House only takes care of their flights and accommodation of invited artistes.<\/p>\n

Mr George was speaking on the Citi Breakfast Show<\/strong> on Friday ahead of the maiden edition of the VGMA awards, which has been scheduled for Saturday April 11, 2015.<\/p>\n

\u201cAll the international acts that are coming, none of them is taking a dime. What we do is we cater for their flight, we give them accommodation and a per diem and in total it doesn\u2019t go beyond 1,500 or worst case scenario 2,000\u2026because they know, that in their countries and all over the world it\u2019s convention, you do not charge to perform at award shows.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cHowever if it\u2019s a music concert that we are doing like the Hope City concert with Chris Brown, yes definitely you will pay top dollar.\u201d<\/p>\n

There has been complaints about the differences between the fees Charter House pays local and foreign artistes with top\u00a0local musicians like Shata Wale and Sarkodie alleging that the company treats foreigners better than locals.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere is a lot of perception that goes round. There are issues that we cannot run away from. \u00a0This is our country and we do honour and cherish our artistes so much. But those are\u00a0just perception but I\u2019m sure if they come close enough eventually that perception would be robbed off,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\"sarkodie\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Sarkodie took to Twitter on Tuesday to reprimand\u00a0\u00a0Charter House<\/strong><\/a><\/span>\u00a0the company for using his name in adverts for the VGMA without a formal agreement.<\/p>\n

But Charter House subsequently apologized saying it was an \u201cerror.<\/strong><\/a><\/span>\u201d<\/p>\n

Mr Quaye \u00a0reiterated the apology but said Sarkodie\u2019s payment if it had been agreed would have been too much for the company to pay.<\/p>\n

\u201cI cannot put figures out there, even at the figure that we couldn\u2019t agree with Sarkodie if he had decided to be on the show he would have been the highest paid act on the night including even if we put all the international acts together it still wouldn\u2019t have gotten to what we were proposing to pay him that he turned down.\u201d<\/p>\n

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By: Godwin Allotey Akweiteh\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana
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