Artist Wendy Shay of RuffTown Records has revealed some of the difficulties faced by female Ghanaian artists in the music industry.
The singer claimed that women in the mostly male-dominated Ghanaian music industry are frequently rejected and ignored.
Wendy Shay asserted that because they are largely disregarded, many female artists face harassment and discrimination from their male peers in addition to a lack of opportunities and investors.
“This is a male-dominated industry where women are mostly overlooked, and there is this stereotype that makes women feel rejected. And the funny thing is, it’s not even just us not having investors in the industry, we get rejected by our male counterparts,” she said on the New Day show on TV3.
Some male artists, she claims, demand sex in return for working with female artists.
“You see them do it for regular male upcoming artists sometimes when we want to have a feature. Shay said, “But let us say an established female artist wants to be sexy and would like a feature from another male artist.”
Wendy Shay has been under the tutelage of Ruff Town Records CEO Bullet and there was even a rumor of having affairs.