Pay ‘Payola’ To DJs – Cecilia Marfo

Gospel musician, Cecelia Marfo has advised her colleagues to pay ‘payola’ to DJs.

‘Payola’ is simply a coinage for money giving by artistes to DJ’s to play their songs on air.

According to the ‘Afunumu Ba’ singer, there’s nothing wrong with musicians giving what is due to DJ’s.

Cecelia Marfo was speaking in an interview with DJ Advicer on Happy FM’s ‘Ayekoo After Drive’ show.

 “The Bible says pay the labourer you hire. As for DJs you ought to help them. It’s true the station might not be theirs but some of them are not even paid that well at the end of the month and some also take good salaries whiles others are just venturing into it.” She said.

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“Having made your song, you should grease their palms a bit to make them feel pampered. It’s not like they just take the ‘payola’ to spend your money.

The bible says to pay the labourer you hire, so when DJs play your songs, give them what is due them. Doing that for them is like doing it for God. Personally I do that because you can’t take your music to DJs and leave them just like that,” she added.

Not long ago ‘Osey’ hitmaker Nero X also said musicians must show appreciation to DJs in the form of ‘payola’.

Ohenewaa Agyemang, a London based gospel musician also stated that ‘payola’ should be legalized.

In recent times, Ghanaian artistes are fervently advocating for radio and tv stations to play more of their songs than foreign ones.

Perhaps Cecelia Marfo and the others may be right about this since it’s the DJ’s and tv hosts that are in charge of playing songs on air or on TV.