Our Reporter
Big Talent music group boss, Eddy Kenzo, in unhappy with the way Uganda Performing Right Society (UPRS) has been handling music money matters for the past couple of years.
The singer blasted the association’s bosses for mismanaging music money and paying out very little to some articles for their works after swindling most of the proceeds.
While appearing on the NTV The Beat show, a vividly angry Kenzo said that the association has done more harm than good in the music industry by cheating artistes who invest alot of time in their work only to be paid peanuts. He also added that some of the music is used without proper consent from the artistes concerned.
“I go to studio, make my music and then they sale it without my consent collect money from DJ’s, music library owners and even from Radio and TV stations, then they call me after a year and give me one million shillings with out any explanation, what happened to transparency?” Kenzo quizzed.
He also commented about the issue of callertunez and how Telcoms cheat musicians leaving them broke as they become richer yet they create the content. “Imagine musicians and their content providers and the government only share 10% of the revenues collected from their songs used for caller tunes and 90% goes to telecoms,” Kenzo said.
“A culture of onesness, selfishness unhealthy competition among the musicians looking up to themselves but not up to the industry’s best is also the problem here. I therefore call upon all musicians to team up as one and unify the industry for the better of today and tomorrow generations,” Kenzo added.
The singer then went on his Facebook page to expound on some of the issues that he didnt get a chance to talk about on air attracting numerous comments from fans and sympathizers.
We hope that one day, the issue of copyright is worked on in Uganda so that artistes can benefit from their works.
We will keep you posted.
