Talent manager Emmanuel Barnes, known in showbiz as Mr Logic, did not take kindly to a description of his comments on TV3 by gospel artiste MOG Music as “emotionally driven”.
It all began on Simply Showbiz with MzGee on Saturday, July 3 when the Chief Executive Officer of Red Panther Music International ruled out gospel as a genre deserving of a category for the Vodafone Ghana Music Awards (VGMAs).
For him, gospel tunes follow similar rhythms as reggae, Afrobeats, and, at some levels, highlife and should be categorised as such instead of getting its own category at the VGMAs.
Mr Logic was making an allusion to the crowning of gospel sensation Diana Antwi Hamilton as the Artiste of the Year at the 2021 VGMAs held at the Grand Arena of the Accra International Conference Centre (AICC).
But MOG Music, who was named the Male Vocalist of the Year, the second in a row for him, described Mr Logic’s conception as “emotionally driven”.
The Oguamma composer said the artiste manager may have been “misled” by one or two encounters he may have had with other gospel artistes in the past.
MOG Music, real named Nana Yaw Boakye, who was nominated alongside KiDi, Akwaboah Jnr and Kyei Mensah in the just-ended awards, welcomed Mr Logic’s suggestion that gospel artistes should be spread around the other genres.
Joined the show via Zoom from home, MOG Music said gospel artistes can match their secular counterparts “boot for boot”.
Mr Logic, however, came back and said: “I want him, at home where he is, to retract that statement that he made. He should retract at home. My statement wasn’t emotionally driven.
“I am happy he agreed that they need to take them off the gospel and place them in all the categories so that they can compete.”
By Emmanuel Kwame Amoh|3news.com|Ghana
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