Many Ghanaian artistes don’t respect their managers, says Uncle Ebo Whyte

Ghanaian playwright and event organiser, Uncle Ebo Whyte says the indiscipline on the part of some Ghanaian artistes should be attributed to poor artiste management.

According to Ebo Whyte, a lot of the people that artistes appoint as their managers lack the power to enforce discipline.

 “We do not have many of our artistes who have managers that they respect. In many cases, the person he introduces as his manager is nothing more than a glorified messenger. So the manager cannot ask him to do anything he decides not to do,” he made the remarks at the recent Joy FM’s Showbiz Roundtable discussion. (Read Mahama's 24-Hour economy is well structured unlike NPP's Free SHS policy, says Rex Omar)

Stressing indiscipline on the part of artistes, he said there had been instances where some artistes appeared late at events, or charged fees for events and did not turn up because they did not have anyone to whip them into line.

He also cited an artiste who was billed to perform at a concert in the United Kingdom but couldn't make it to the show on the day because he had passed out from overdose of drug intake.

The Roverman Productions boss intimated that for the creative industry to take shape a lot of these concerns needed to be addressed.