Female Ghanaian rapper Ruth Amankwah commonly known in the showbiz fraternity as Eno Barony has asked people to stop tagging female musicians as ‘female artiste’ and that their male counterparts are just referred to as artistes which she believes it isn’t fair.
Speaking in an interview with Arnold Mensah on Vibes in 5, Eno lamented that such tag in the entertainment industry discourages females who want to enter into the showbiz.
Eno who doesn’t see the reason why artists categorize is necessary for the industry added that irrespective of their sex, they use the same microphones with the men.
“In as much as I’m female, I feel when they come calculating female artistes, they are putting us in a box because if you want to talk about artistes, since we’re all using the same microphones and the same stages and everything, you should count artistes. Don’t come and say artistes and say guys and then come and say, female artiste.”
“We need to be treated special because we are women but that doesn’t mean we don’t have to work as hard as equal as the men are doing. I feel like if the government is going to do anything for us and its artistes, yes, then it’s artistes, but at the end of the day, they should actually know that there are female and male artistes, so, they spread it amongst us equally,” she opined.
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