The CEO of Roughtown Data, Ricky Nana Agyemang, popularly often called Bullet, not too long ago revealed that he paid $100,000 to the daddy of the late Ghanaian musician Ebony Reigns as a part of his music royalties.
In an interview with Okay FM’s Nana Romeo, Barrett stated that quantity represented 50 % of Ebony’s royalties, though the unique contract solely entitled Ebony to twenty %.
He stated Ebony’s father requested a rise in his share of royalties after the artist’s loss of life.
“I not too long ago gave Ebony’s father $100,000, which is 50% of Ebony’s royalties. Ebony was entitled to a 20% stake, however her father made me enhance it to 50%.
After Ebony’s first social gathering, he stated she ought to give him her daughter’s cash. The cash was meant to advertise and marketing campaign for Ebony’s actions, however I went with him to the financial institution and withdrew the cash for him. “He hasn’t talked about it wherever,” he stated.
However Kwarteng stated he had determined to not talk about the matter, despite the fact that he normally criticizes him publicly.
Relations between Barrett and Ebony’s father have been strained since Barrett’s loss of life in 2018, with disagreements over royalties, administration and what needs to be accomplished with the late artist’s property sometimes taking part in out in public.
Ebony Raines (actual title Priscilla Opoku-Kwarteng) handed away on February 8, 2018 on the age of 20 in a automobile accident on the Sunyani-Kumasi Expressway.
She turned well-known for hit songs corresponding to; sponsor, cup, mom look and poisonand stays considered one of Ghana’s most well-known feminine musicians.
In 2018, she posthumously gained Artist of the Yr on the Gaan Music Awards.
