How can Ghanaian gospel music expand and sell outside?
(input from Kwame) Philipa: We should forget about mediocre works. We need quality sound, and we need quality videos. The (gospel) videos are very bad. We have to make them as well as the hiplife and highlife musicians do theirs. They (gospel musicians) don’t want to spend money. Museke: That’s true. It is believed that a lot of gospel videos involve people standing in front of nice flowers and singing. Your new videos are very great. Who did your videos? Philipa: Ohene Media (Abraham Ohene Djan) did Nkwa and Go high. When I was with Frimprince, Castro Destroyer (also on that label) did his video and the charge was 7 million while mine was 2.5 million. I spend a lot of time shooting videos. We shot a video recently at La Palm Royal Hotel and they would charge for using the premises. A gospel artiste asked about one of my videos and was surprised as to how expensive it was. She told me to come to Kumasi and see, she had done 10 music videos with 10 million (1000 Ghana cedis). A DVD is c
