The Musicians Union of Ghana (MUSIGA) President, Obour, with his newly-elected Executive would this morning be at the National Theater in Accra to register new members for the union.
“We would be re-registering our old members as well as registering entirely new members. The exercise is to update our database to help us provide proper benefits to our members,” Obour noted.
He added that the registration exercise was not limited to musicians but also for music producers, directors, composers, writers and anyone whose job had something to do with music.
“Even as arts writers, you all qualify to come and register because it is until we update our date base that we can actually plan. The current register has some three thousand names and more but we cannot tell how many of them are still in active music, how many of them composers or producers or artistes or instrumentalists are and this is not helping us plan well because as MUSIGA members, we expect different types of benefits depending on what exactly we do.
“A more recent and accurate register would help us solve some of these challenges and also know where to channel opportunities for our members as and when the chance arrives. Registered members would be entitled to several benefits including health benefits and legal advice. I mean even coming together to know each other, establish contact and build rapport is a benefit on its own because as you know, together we stand, divided we fall,” Obour noted.
source:newsone
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