ONLY ABOUT 5% OF MUSICIANS IN GHANA MAKE MONEY FROM MUSIC – Rex Omar Reveals

“Most of them are doing it with passion hoping that something will happen. Until today, most of the people pursuing music are not approaching it as business and as soon as you start to approach it as business, then you start to ask questions like if it is viable, especially doing music full time in Ghana.” He said this in an interview with Kokonsa Kester on Y107.9FM’s Weekend Rush.

“If your break-even point is 5 years, you need to know how much to invest in it to be able to break even. And if the answers and numbers are not tallying then it is not viable,” he mentioned.

He stressed the fact that many musicians who have achieved success in the field may simply have their fame, which sometimes has little bearing on their economic state.

He thinks this is the case because those who don’t understand this and are careless will merely continue to follow their passion, become well-known, pass away, and leave nothing to be attributed to the music they created.