Chairman of the Ghana Music Rights Organisation (GHAMRO), Rex Omar, wants award show organisers to take out the gospel categories in their schemes.
In an recent interview on Joy FM, the musician asked organizers to scrap the categories.
Rex Omar argued that there is no genre known as Gospel music.
He further stressed that lyrical content does not define a genre.
“So are you saying that we don’t have Reggae music that are being sang in Gospel? Will you call them Gospel music? They are Reggae. If I play Jazz and I decide to sing it in Gospel, it is Jazz,” he said.
He added that the argument that Gospel is about the message and nothing else is flawed.
Rex Omar stated that Gospel is not a genre and artists in that area should stop calling it such.
