President of the Creative Arts Council, Mark Okraku Mantey has jumped to the defense of actress turned singer Emelia Brobbey after she released a song.
The actress was severely trolled on social media when she unveiled her debut single titled ‘Fa Me Ko’.
A number of music fans trolled her claiming that the vocal delivery on the song was extremely poor.
Speaking on Hitz FM’s Daybreak Hitz, the astute music producer said Emelia Brobbey’s song is better than that of most musicians in Ghana.
‘This same Emelia song that we are talking about, you can go find people who do music, who are cut in the music bracket and listen to them and find out if Emelia doesn’t have a better song than most of the people there. But we take them normal because they are in music’’ he said.
Mark Okraku Mantey believes that the music industry sometimes exhibits a hostile attitude towards people who try to cross over from other sectors of the entertainment space.
‘To change from film to music, even in this country, I don’t know why, they won’t accept you. The fact that Emelia is coming from film, people are going to judge her differently’, he asserted.
The President of the Creative Arts Council stressed that this phenomenon in the music industry affected Emelia Brobbey’s acceptance.
He also asked Ghanaians to criticize Emelia Brobbey’s ‘Fa Me Ko’ based on technicalities and not emotions.
