A local musician in the east of Freetown, Zainab Morlai Sesay aka Z. ZeeZee,has said on Friday that, upcoming female musicians are being neglected and frustrated by stakeholders in the music industry in Sierra Leone.
Zee said that most upcoming female musicians have encountered and are still confronting lots of challenges in the Sierra Leone Music Industry.
She said that before they had been treated in a more professional manner in recording studios. But some engineers usually ask them to get into love relationship with them before they would work on their songs, adding that if they refusedtodo so their work would not be done.“…not all of us will give what theywilldemandfrom us, upon our refusal they will not work for us.Unwillingly, some of us will do it because there is no option, and we want to accomplish our dreams.”
She further said thatDJs and MCsask them for huge amount of money which they could not be able to affordbefore their songs could be played in the radio stations.“We are getting frustrated every day in the Music Industry from DJs, and MCs; Studio engineers and some managers. “The Djs and the MCs are always playing foreign music every day for free, but when it comes to S/L songs from upcoming female musicians they won’t be played if we don’t fall in love with them.”
She further explained that establishedmusicians selfishly guard their own interest at the expense of upcoming ones who are left frustrated, adding that whenever funds are donated to musicians for the benefit of bothmusiciansand the entertainment industry they alone would share it disproportionately living the industry naked. “The big stars never consider us, not realizing that after they have left we would be the ones that would take care of the entertainment industry,” he said. He urged musicians in Sierra Leone to emulate their counterparts in Nigeria and Ghana whom she said always considerfavorably upcoming musicians.
Z.Zee Zee is a musician who started her career in music in 2014 after been inspired and motivated by her friends in her school days.
She sings Zuk, Reggae, afro, hip-hop and many other genres and had produced songs like: Pray’, ‘Family Wahala’ ‘Lady Zee’ ‘Lock the Game’ ‘Me Time’ and ‘Keep the Faith’.
25/8/2020. ISSUE NO: 7894