One of the board members of Ghana Music Awards, Okraku Mantey, revealed that a song writer/composer is not a musician.
Musician Akwaboah is one of the three musicians in this year�s �New Artiste of the Year� category, whose nomination has come under public censorship � calling for his nomination to be quashed because he is not a new artiste/musician.
Those who make the argument posit that Akwaboah once won �Best Songwriter of the Year� in VGMA for the song ���she wrote for musician Becca; because of that, he does not qualify for the �New Artiste of the Year� nomination in this year�s VGMA.
However, Okraku Mantey insists that Akwaboah qualifies because, at the time the latter won the award for �Best Songwriter of the Year,� he was not a musician; instead, he was only a songwriter/composer.
To verify if there is any truth or sense in what he said, GhanaCelebrities.Com did a research.
Who is a musician (noun)? Our research gave us one of two meanings or definitions:
1 �Someone who plays a musical instrument (as a profession).�
2 �(music) artist who composes or conducts music as a profession.�
GhanaCelebrities.Com Also visited celebrated gospel musician and a certified Musicologist, Tseataa � formerly known as Pastor Josh Laryea and asked him: sir, if someone can write or compose song (s) and can play musical instruments but has not yet released a song/album, is the person not a musician or cant the fellow qualify to be called a musician.
�Why not! All song composers/writers are 100% musicians! Any person who does something that is music related aside the executive production or promotion, qualifies to be called a musician! Look, music, just like any other discipline, has got departments.
Just like we have doctors � some are gynecologists, dentists, dermatologists, etc. They are all doctors but in different specializations or departments. If a dentist tells a gynecologist that you are not a doctor, he does not make sense! So, music has departments! Instrumentalists are musicians! Songwriters/composers are musicians as well!
So finally, songwriters/composers are musicians! That is why we have what we call recording artistes or musicians; thus, a composer/writer who does not perform his or her own composed songs on stage, but is still a musician!� Tseataa educated us and the VGMA board.
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