It's an open secret that most up-and coming male artistes find it very difficult getting people to financially support them in their careers. The same thing applies to the ladies but theirs go a bit beyond that. It's almost impossible for any male financier to pump so much cash into the music career of any female artiste without asking for sex.
As a result of this, most female artistes who do not offer sex in exchange for help in the music industry, have their dreams of becoming music stars get shattered. It's easier to say that the request for sex from female artistes pertains to the secular music scene but I beg to differ.
Some female artistes who profess to love God so much and want to do his work, sometimes succumb to the sexual desires of their male executive producers just because they want to be heard on radio and seen on TV. As should be expected, those who refuse to offer bodies as living sacrifices end up without any help in the music industry.
My motivation for this article is the fact that a young lady who is musically talented and needs help has gotten herself in an awkward situation. Under the pretense of helping her, she is alleging that a well-known radio presenter has raped and impregnated her. The issue of whether she was indeed raped or not is not something I would want to talk about, but one thing is clear; just because she needed help badly to announce her presence in the music industry, the radio presenter has successful slept with her.
The radio presenter in question managed to get into the lady's pants after promising her so many things. Now realizing that the radio presenter may not be able to help her as promised, she now feels used and wants to teach the radio presenter a bitter lesson. This same lady alleges that a well known radio presenter who also doubles as a producer at an Accra-based radio station wanted to have sex with her all because she wanted his help in the music industry. Just like the first radio presenter, the female artiste says this presenter also promised her so many things thinking that she would yield to his sexual advances. I must admit that there are some big-time female artistes who have received immense help just because they allowed their bodies to be used and abused but I believe that should not be the norm.
Quite unfortunately, there are so many male radio presenters out there who have refused to help some female artistes in the music industry just because they refused to open their legs wide for them to penetrate them. Why would you want to have sex with a female artiste if you genuinely want to help her? Is it not possible to help any female artiste without necessarily asking for sex? Such practices should end. After all, what is the guarantee that such female artistes would be helped if they grace the beds of their supposed helpers?
Our female artistes should also not be so desperate to be in the limelight. Most of the time, these radio presenters capitalize on their desperation and then have sex with them after promising to make them stars in record time. I sincerely believe that radio presenters who are capable of helping up and coming female artistes should do so and desist from requesting for sex. I would also advise all up and coming female artistes to be wary of some radio presenters who promise to help them in their music industry.
The fact that a radio presenter is popular does not mean he can make a star out of an up and coming female artiste overnight. All radio presenters who having been requesting for sex before they help any female artiste should desist from doing so or else I would expose them without fear or favour. I have the names of some radio presenters who have been doing that and at the right time, I would expose them. I rest my case.
By Elvis R Baidoo
