I recently read about a local musician who apparently, does not own a car and has an outdated cellphone. I found this sad because this person's music has been on high rotation on most local radio stations and a lot of people dance to his music. One answer for this man's situation; PIRACY.With the recent announcement of the 2012 South African Music Awards nominees, the nation was excited to learn that Afro-pop musician got seven nominations. Do we remember when this girl's album was pirated and it had American singer, Aaliyah's face on it?
Why should we say our artists are poor if we do not support their art? It is about time we moved to the same rhythm as a nation and took a stand against piracy. It does not benefit the ministry of Arts and Culture or the artists theselves. Let us not even brag about downloads. What is a man to do with R5 for every song downloaded? Let us support local music in the same way that we support local sport.
people are so ignorant,they fail to understand that music is how someone make a living..we should stop being inconsiderate and stop piracy..they people are working so hard to intertain us but we pushing them down...we need to ask our selves how will you feel if you worked hard for something and someone steals it?
ReplyDeleteI think we are killing our own musicians by pirating their music.
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