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Shatta Wale’s team agreed to our conditions – Director of National Sports Authority
Professor Peter Twumasi, the Director General of the National Sports Authority has responded to claims by Shatta Wale that he has been unfairly treated by the authorities of the Accra Sports Stadium with regards to his forthcoming Freedom Wave Concert.
Shatta Wale in Facebook Live video on Tuesday, September 19, 2023, alleged that the authorities of the stadium had been influenced by external forces to allow his arch-rival Stonebwoy hold his Bhim Concert three days before from his.
According to Shatta Wale who has scheduled 25th December, 2023 for his Freedom Wave Festival with Medikal, he cannot use less than three days to set up his things at the stadium considering the fact that Stonebwoy’s show slated for 22nd December will run into the following day, leaving him with less time to prepare for his show.
“You told my team that to do a show at the stadium one needs three days to set up. So if you are doing your show on 25th, you need three says ahead to set up – 22nd, 23rd, 24th. That is what you told my team,” he said.
“He [Stonebwoy] could have done his maybe 10th December, or any other day in December. Why eat into our time. Why? And the Prof said they will look into it,” he further stated.
The Director General of the National Sports Authority, mentioned that they had several meetings with both parties and they agreed to their conditions. Prof. Twumasi in a meeting with teams representing Shatta Wale and Stonebwoy
“We met with his team and agreed on these conditions. They’re ok,” he noted.
He has also indicated that at present, no one has prevented either party from holding their show on their respective dates.
“25th December booked for Shatta, 22nd for Stone, and others have different dates in December,” he added.
In the meantime, Chief Abiola, the road manager of Stonebwoy has said on Hitz FM that their team was ready to collaborate with Shatta Wale with regards to some logistics to ease drudgery on setting up for the Freedom Wave Concert but Shatta Wale was unyielding to that arrangement.
“I got feedback from Sammy Flex that Shatta Wale was not happy with the timing so we should push for more time for them to set up. So I also took it back to my team, had a back and forth with them and there okay.
We decided to shift the date from 23rd to 22nd which was giving Shatta’s team two or three days clear before their event, so it was enough time for them to do whatever set up they want to do,” he added.
Shatta Wale and Medikal had earlier announced that the Freedom Wave Festival was slated for 20th-25th December, 2023.
As indicated on the promotional flyer of the event, the two artistes and their fans will pray for the industry on December 23, 2023 at the Accra Sports Stadium.
Other activities for the 5-day festival include arrival of regional fan bases, exhibition of Shatta Movement merchandise, pre-concert with new artistes, dress rehearsal for artiste and the main concert itself.
Previously known as the Freedom Wave Concert, the two artistes, with the addition of other activities and four more days to the event, have upgraded to a festival.
Shatta Wale and Medikal held the first edition of the Freedom Wave Concert in 2021 after both of had an encounter with the law which landed them in jail.
They followed it up with the second edition in 2022. The duo received plaudits from event-goers for filling the 40,000 capacity stadium.
Shatta Wale and Medikal for the past few years have declared their undying support for each other and have in tandem with this, done joint projects including the ‘Cross Roads’ album.
Source: Joy FM
Iconic Nigerian singer Peter Okoye has responded to allegations made by his twin brother Paul over ownership of a new song “Winning.”
Peter Okoye shared a detailed account of the song’s creation, clarifying his role and collaboration with others, including Ghanaian producer Vampire and songwriter Calypso.
He questioned Paul’s claims, citing their agreed-upon creative process and Paul’s removal of his (Peter’s) vocals from joint songs.
Peter also addressed his temporary break from music, stating he took time to recharge before returning with “Winning.”
He wrote on X: “If you have followed my journey as a solo artiste and even before, you will notice that I give people their due credit where necessary as I am a firm believer in teamwork; I know my strengths, where I need assistance or guidance I am not afraid to ask or work with those who are strong in the areas I am not; this includes the process of creating music, executing concepts and ideas etc. I will always credit people for their contributions to my projects.
“Sometime in June 2022, I stumbled upon a producer based in Ghana named Vampire, and my team and I also personally reached out to him via DM, that I liked his work and was interested in working with him. Before getting him to Lagos, I presented the idea of this producer to my twin brother and our team, getting their buy-in before I got him flight tickets and flew him to Lagos.“
It was when he got into Lagos I asked if he would be open to working on P-SQUARE’s next album project, that the 5 songs I had penned down from my end to be presented to our A&R team for the album project were: JAIYE, WINNING, FIND SOMEBODY, LEGENDARY, and ATTENTION, based on tracks he had produced.
“We started with my own 5 songs that needed to be submitted for PSQUARE’s album, which he produced for me: The idea for WINNING came from one of his beats that I discovered. I came up with the idea of changing the chord progression from the original version to what it is today with my own producer Goldswarm who is the co-producer of the song WINNING.
“I had also engaged a songwriter known as CALYPSO who wrote and composed the song WINNING and sent it to me on the beats through a voice note. And we started working on the song. Mind you, he worked on some other songs that were to make the album as well, so my brother was aware of his input to the production as we were all in the studio during this period.
“Then when my twin brother heard the song WINNING, which we had already created the hook/chorus for, he then wanted to start creating a verse. Our agreed-on process for each song presented by us was: arrange the song, leave a verse for the other person, then we both harmonise the chorus and refrain bits together. He wasn’t supposed to until Calypso and I finished it as part of my own song submission to the LEGENDARY ALBUM.
“After that, we finished and shared verses among ourselves. I do not wish to get into details of why the album didn’t see the light of day till date but it takes a different level of psychosis for one to steal what is theirs already; as since the release of this song, I have been labeled and called all sorts online and they have even gone as far as asking for the song to be taken down on various platforms, to what end?
“It was never part of his 5, now 6 (according to him) songs for submission, yet when he felt I was not interested in making music because I chose my sanity over the constant berating and drama that seemed to come up over creative direction in the group.
“If it were his song, why do I have all the music data including initial conversations and picture/video evidence on the above-mentioned titles/songs? Which of his songs do I have its data in my possession in that case? All because he was hoping for me to quit music. Even when I learnt that he had removed my vocals on songs we did together, suggesting that he sing the entire songs including the ones that he planned to present for the album without my input (a very absurd idea as we both make up the duo not just the one), but we both perform them on stage, I begun to have a rethink of the entire situation. Let me leave this here.
“Maybe because I was not posting anything music-related on my social media page for over 4 months. He believes I have lost interest in music. I took a breather to get my mind and head in the right space and when that was done, my epiphany was WINNING!”.
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