In what appears to be his stock in trade – aiding his fellow Gospel musicians glow and acquiring payment from the royalties in its place – Kofi Owusu Dua Anto, a.k.a KODA, has discovered how a South African musician ripped him off such royalties.
Talking on Kofi Television set as monitored by GhanaWeb on Monday, the ‘Hosanna’ hitmaker declined to title the musician in dilemma to stay away from humiliation.
KODA spelled out, “the 1 time I felt humorous was when I wrote a music for an artiste who is not Ghanaian. In his nation, that’s South Africa, when you are the writer of the tune, you get royalties since that operates well in that state. So, when he was going to sign-up the song, he made a decision to use his title to register as the writer and not mine.
“I named him out of the blue to check with if he had launched the track. The musician responded in the affirmative. So I requested him to deliver me a copy to pay attention to [but] he informed me to wait around. Right after waiting for some time, he never ever despatched the copy and he produced me know that there is more to it which is why he refused to send out it.
Later, he known as to tell me that when he was registering the track, he forgot how to spell my name KODA. That’s a joke! Can you picture? So he used his identify. That was the a single time I felt funny about it. So, I claimed why didn’t I sing the song myself and soon after providing you the song you steal the track like that?”
When requested if he sells his music to artistes any time he assists them compose, KODA responded that promoting a track to an artiste for one particular-time payment is not the greatest business enterprise design.
“Rather, you need to have to sign-up the music in your title with any of the publishers and give it totally free to the artiste, but when he decides to give you a token for the support, that’s fantastic.
“Once you provide off to the man or woman, the legal rights go to the man or woman and I do not know why I would want to do that. Retain the ideal and set up for some token so that 10 a long time from now or fifteen a long time from now, wherever the music is performed or remixed the revenue will nevertheless arrive to you as the primary owner,” KODA proposed.
When asked if an artiste states that he would like to pay out for the song, he remarked, “I do not feel it is a excellent design. Really don’t rip your grandchildren of residence.
“Bob Marley died so a lot of years back. If you use ten seconds of his tunes for an advert, his spouse and children will deal with you. So go away a legacy for your children. Just never overprice, just a token and make guaranteed the music is registered in your title […] make certain the song outlives you and never provide your home,” KODA recommended.
