There have been several criticisms following the 25^th Telecel Ghana Music Awards (TGMA), especially about the performances of billed artists at the event.

One particular musician’s performance that has captured vast attention on social media is King Promise. Most netizens have backlashed the artist heavily, underrating his vocal performance.

However, others variedly think that there was poor sound quality at the event, which affected King Promise’s act.

Amidst the debate, artist manager, Nana Poku Ashis is the latest to add his voice. He thinks King Promise should not be blamed entirely for the error, adding that there were equally challenges with sound.

He suggested a solution to solving and avoiding such occurrences in the subsequent editions.

Speaking in a conversation on Joy Prime’s Prime Morning show while reviewing the various developments concerning the event, the artist manager opined that the awards require more sound engineers.

According to him, the organisers, Charter House require more personnel to provide support in varied ways. He said they would have to incorporate additional sound experts to help improve the quality.

“I would like to urge you to probably invite different hands to come on board next year to help us with sound because the key thing we’re playing with is sound,” he said.

He recounted a sound comparison between Samini and Tarrus Riley's performances at Blitz on the Hills in Kwahu years ago, even though Samini’s performed well.

“I was actually the one manning the stage. Now right after Samini was Tarrus Riley, and Samini jammed; everybody loved it, and the sound was good until Tarrus Riley’s engineer came on. I was asking if the same speaker Samini performed in, or if they brought microphones. What did they do? It took them 15 to 30 minutes to tweak the sound while people were there.

They came late and couldn’t do a sound check before the show began, but they requested the time to do something. When they let go of the sound, everybody was like, What is happening here?” he narrated on the show.

Contrary to what the public claim, he emphasised that King Promise was not singing off key but was flatting the key notes due to the sound he was kistening to.