Global Citizen Festival performance fee: Gyakie contradicts herself - www.asempanews.com

Ghanaian singer Gyakie has renounced earlier assertion she was paid to perform at the Global Citizen Festival.

On Tuesday, 27 September, 2022, Gyakie had disclosed that everybody who performed on the 2022 Global Citizen Festival stage in Accra was paid.

“For performance, everybody was [paid],” the ‘Something’ hitmaker said before adding “and obviously, aside that as well, we are also doing this for the [Global Citizen] cause you are mentioning to also get a louder voice to talk about all of that.”

These statements flew in the face of what Mr Kojo Poku, Chief Executive Officer (CEO) at Big Ideas Consult, a local partner to the Global Citizen Festival, said on the same radio station and show prior to Gyakie’s interview.

“Everyone who mounted the stage did so out of the benevolence of their heart and the Global Citizen cause is bigger than how much you’ll make out of a performance on that stage.”

He stressed: “All over the world, Global Citizen artistes who perform on those stages do not take a performance fee.”

“Yes Global Citizen did not pay us for our performances but invested in our performances and made sure the team was good and comfortable,” she explained.