You are a fraud, if you call yourself a Sound Engineer in Ghana, Richie Mensah, popularly known as Richie, has stated.

According to CEO of Lynx Entertainment, the constant use of the title by some producers in Ghana without the requisite qualification is a worrying trend that needs to stop.
He believes, just like the study of Medicine, people need to acquire a certain level of education and qualification in the field before they can be called Sound Engineers.
The award winning producer gave the explanation during an interview on an Accra based radio station.

“There are so many things you can do in music, especially when it comes to the production side. We have beat makers, then we have sound producers, then we have audio engineers now audio engineers. Now audio engineer is even broken into recording engineers, mixing engineers, mastering engineers before we have the audio engineers for the events side,” he explained.

“Now the reason why I say we don’t have sound engineers in Ghana is, sound engineering is not like sound production where it’s an art base on creativity, it’s a science and you can only be called an audio engineer when you have a degree – either a bachelor’s degree or a master’s degree,” Richie added.

“When you call yourself a sound engineer, it’s basically fraud,” the ‘Yaro’ hit singer stressed.

Richie seem not to be the only person in the entertainment industry who throws jabs at others. Sarkodie has also come under constant attack from people in the industry especially Mark Okreku Mantey who constantly criticize the rapper for titles he pose on himself.
Reggie Rockstone, Samini, Shatta Wale etc has all been lashed in one way or the other for self imposed titles..

But the question here is, if there are no sound engineers then what are the Appietus, El, Kaywa, Jay Q, Richie himself who used to reign around 2010-2013 with the popular intro'' its a hit meeeeehn''??
Its true so called sound engineers in Ghana come and fad away just too quickly but probably because of the genre of music they associate themselves with.

Not withstanding, people have invested time and resources into what they do and should be recognized as such.

source:amapuah.com