Religion Is Awarded Over Talent In Ghana’s Music Industry - Mr Logic

Mr Logic has accused the VGMA of playing into the hands of religion by awarding Diana Hamilton the artiste of the year instead of making the votes based on quality and talent

Religion Is Awarded Over Talent In Ghana’s Music Industry - Mr Logic
Diana Hamilton

Mr Logic has maintained that Diana Hamilton would not have won the Vodafone Ghana Music Award's Artist of the Year over KiDi under normal circumstances.

According to him, Diana Hamilton has won the award because the VGMA favoured women and gospel in its last award scheme.

He maintained that the VGMA only wanted to appease religion and show favouritism towards women because of the worldwide trend of women getting more places than men in recent times.

“The board and the academy are making mistakes because it looks as if there is some sort of favouritism going on, which is not fair. We have had females who have been in the industry for the past three years. Who can equally sing so well like Abiana. They found themselves nowhere close to the nomination.”

“Yaw Tog, for instance, people are saying I hate him. But there are guys who went viral than Yaw Tog. I said earlier that I don’t even know if I should blame the votes. Because if it is all about the votes. Then anything can get in there.”

Mr Logic noted this while speaking on Simply Showbiz with MzGee.

In the entirety of his argument, the pundit argued that since the awards are based on votes the rightful owners of the award might not get the awards since they might not have enough people to vote for them.

He also opined that gospel musicians should not be in the Artiste of the Year category since gospel music is not a genre and religious music should be judged in its own category.

“We will have to ask VGMA to reveal all the board members. Because not everybody who is on the board is a technical or production expert. We have got bloggers on the board,” he concluded.