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A-Plus & Co Mourn With `Africa Money`
The mortal remains of Mrs. Gladys Angelina Kwarteng, mother of one of Ghana`s controversial Hiplife musicians, Sidney, known in showbiz circles as `Scent No`, `Obiaa Nye Obiaa`, `Africa Money`, `Apuskeleke` among others, was been laid to rest last week. |
| 8-Mar-2008 |
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A-Plus New Album Out Soon
After writing to Parliament about the political scene in the country, A-Plus, a controversial political musicians has turned his direction to the western world, urging them to ensure accountability of money they pump into Ghana. |
| 19-Feb-2008 |
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Ghana Music: Leave A-Plus Alone!
Until the Ghanaian born music star, A-Plus started releasing political songs as another means of focusing attention on problems some politicians are creating in this country, no musician in the country had thought that such songs could be lucrative, gain popularity and educate the populace of their rights. |
| 18-Dec-2007 |
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Ghana Music: Oh Shut Up A-Plus
A-Plus is buoyant, sure-footed and full of himself on the release of his latest single. He is quick to retort about his exercise of freedom of speech whenever he’s called upon to answer questions on this not-so-wowing song. |
| 13-Dec-2007 |
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A-Plus branches into comedy
Come Saturday December 22nd, Accra will roar again with laughter: The comedians are back in town; and at the National Theatre on the said date, they will steer affairs at the very popular night of Comedy and Music! |
| 11-Dec-2007 |
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Ghana Music; A-Plus dares critics
POLITICAL SINGER, A-plus, known in real life as Kwame Obeng Asare is making ‘heavy weather’ of threats of legal action against him by certain individuals and key politicians who are not happy with his new single hit currently making waves on the music market. |
| 3-Dec-2007 |
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A-Plus dares Akwasi Aboagye
“Peace FM is a place where people have really been interested in my well being but I have issues with people in Peace FM including Akwasi Aboagye. The issue is not about Peace FM,” says A-Plus. |
| 8-Nov-2007 |
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A-Plus and Kwabena Kwabena Join X-Kwist Vibe
Ghana Music Award Winning Musicians Kwabena Kwabena and A-Plus, in their quest for better record sales have quite their old record labels for a new management label. |
| 7-Oct-2007 |
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Ghana Music: Agegon to Parliament
Kwame Obeng, also known as A-plus, is a 30 year old musician with a daughter of the age of one-and-a-half, but still single. This week, he sat down in a relaxed mood with The Saturday Statesman to talk about how his career got started. |
| 2-Jul-2007 |
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Kofi Wayo supports A-Plus at album launch
Young and Talented Political-Hiplife Musician and a self acclaimed social commentator Kwabena Obeng Asare known in the Ghanaian music circles as A-Plus last Thursday outdoored his most talked about album “A letter to Parliament”. |
| 16-Jun-2007 |
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A-Plus reschedules meeting with Parliamentarians
Young musician A-Plus may have been singing songs about the need for correctness from politicians and people in political office but he did not anticipate that he himself would be a victim of his own incorrectness. |
| 31-May-2007 |
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A Letter To Parliament
The controversial hiplife artiste who is known to take politicians to the cleaners is at it again. This time he calls his collection A Letter to Parliament and that is album number three for the young man. |
| 12-Apr-2007 |
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A-Plus' Life In Danger
Since the introduction of rap music in our local languages about ten years ago, hiplife has now become the type of music everybody enjoy dancing with, but refuses to buy tapes or copies of the CD. |
| 9-Apr-2007 |
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Ghanaians Celebrate Rebublic Day
Sunday July 1 was a great day for the people of Ghana as they came out in their numbers to celebrate the Republic Day. |
| 3-Jul-2007 |
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Daasebre shares stage with A-Plus
Politically controversial musician, A-Plus, the sensational highlife artiste, Daasebre Gyamena and the evergreen Wulomei Traditional Group will Friday August 3 share a stage at the National Theatre. |
| 31-Jul-2007 |
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Night of music at Panafest
Despite the low patronage and intermittent blackouts which characterized this year’s PANAFEST, music lovers would always have nostalgic feelings of the performance of the various Highlife, Hiplife African Jazz, Reggae and Traditional music artiste and Groups for their splendid display. |
| 5-Aug-2007 |
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Ghana Music: Seminar For Musicians
KAFINA EVENTS, management of hiplife genius Tic Tac, supported by the Ministry of Tourism and Diasporan Relations and the Musicians Union Of Ghana (MUSIGA) is organizing a one day music seminar for musicians at the British Council in Accra today December 20, at 11:00am. |
| 20-Dec-2007 |
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MUSIGA congress in November - Sidiku Buari
The national congress of the Musicians Union of Ghana (MUSIGA) will be held at Sunyani, the Brong Ahafo Regional capital on the 14th of November this year. |
| 26-Aug-2007 |
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Frimprince to Reward Musicians
Frimprince Music Productions, a Ghanaian/Italian private music production house which is into entertainment and events organization and promotion is planning a big awards night dubbed “Frimprince Music/Actors Awards-Italy” for hardworking artistes in the industry. |
| 13-Aug-2007 |
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Police swoop on copyright pirates
The Copyright Office and the Nima Divisional Police Command have arrested two dealers in pirated copyright works and seized items valued at over two billion cedis. |
| 1-Aug-2007 |
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MUSIGA initiates moves to form own Copyright Society
Members of the Musicians Union of Ghana (MUSIGA) have initiated moves to form their own copyright society to be known as Music Copyright Society of Ghana (MCOSGA) following the proposed abolition of the Copyright Society of Ghana (COSGA). |
| 31-Jul-2007 |
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Metro TV Unfolds Package For Musicians
Works of musicians which feature in Metro TV’s Ad cycle will now attract an amount of GH¢30 (¢300,000) per music video.
This, the station stated, was part of a new policy to pay for works of both musicians and songwriters. |
| 30-Jul-2007 |
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Metro TV pays musicians
METRO TV the station with the heart, has given credence to its slogan, by initiating a policy to pay musicians who are featured on their programs for the use of their musical works, starting this August, 2007. |
| 28-Jul-2007 |
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50 Arrested For Piracy
A combined team of Police personnel and members of the anti-piracy task force of the Ghana Association of Phonographic Industries (GAPI) and Musicians Association of Ghana (MUSIGA) has arrested 50 people suspected to be behind pirated musical works in the country. |
| 30-Jun-2007 |
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Ghana Music Video Awards 2007 coming soon!
For the first time in the history of showbiz in Ghana, an award scheme aimed at rewarding music videos has been introduced to acknowledge the efforts of those excelling in the audio visual section of the industry. |
| 22-May-2007 |
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