Congo Vibes
Music => Congolese Music => Topic started by: J Silu on May 20, 2020, 18:41
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As we all know back in the days artists had ghostwriters, or co-writers working with them on songs. It wasn't an issue until it became an issue because of the public.
Does anyone know of the first incident involving a Ghost writer coming out to say I wrote "this song for Werra" or for Fally whoever?
How did this problem begin because I heard ghostwriters got paid but someone decided na we need to get paid everytime the song sells or appears on the radio etc they wanted residual. Does anyone know when this problem began?
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Ebanda kala. Tabu Ley was the first in 60s, saying that he wrote songs for Grand Kalle.
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As we all know back in the days artists had ghostwriters, or co-writers working with them on songs. It wasn't an issue until it became an issue because of the public.
Does anyone know of the first incident involving a Ghost writer coming out to say I wrote "this song for Werra" or for Fally whoever?
How did this problem begin because I heard ghostwriters got paid but someone decided na we need to get paid everytime the song sells or appears on the radio etc they wanted residual. Does anyone know when this problem began?
For me if I'm a songwriter I'm looking at residual payment. If the song is a hit, or is streamed online whatever. I want a cut out of it. I'm not expecting a big cut but at least I get something from Koffi, (he's gonna refuse to work with me loool) , something from Werra, and so on. So I'm eating from different artists.
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Ebanda kala. Tabu Ley was the first in 60s, saying that he wrote songs for Grand Kalle.
Woooah that long ago. I need to look more into Grand Kalle's music. Tabu used to be in his band right?
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Yes