Celestine Donkor: Gospel musicians require more money than the president

Celestine Donkor revealed in an interview with Property FM, a Cape Coast radio station, that although they are carrying out God's mission, it is a business and requires funding.

She acknowledged that although God occasionally gives them music in dreams, they still require financial support to travel to the recording studio and record those songs before they can be made available for public listening.

She added that, like secular musicians, they must have money to invest in appearances and promotions.

The singer stated, "Even if you got the song through divine means or a dream, the money for recording the song in a studio wouldn't come from the dream. It's not possible that money wouldn't be involved when you do gospel music."

She continued by saying that people sing for a living in the same way that people who work as teachers or doctors do.

God has given everyone of us a unique divine gift; for example, I was given the gift of gospel music, but other people have been given the gift of teaching or medicine. Gospel musicians require funding to visit the studio,  to record our songs and other online courses that we do,” she told the host.

"It entails a lot of resources, so why shouldn't the gospel musician be expected to make money from singing or performing? If the doctor graduates and gets money treating people, then so should it with this as well? Given the kind of work we perform as gospel musicians, we even need money more than the president, so if someone has that perspective, they should alter it because it won't help.