‘Female artists face sexual demands for music features’ — Wendy Shay laments

Wendy Shay, Ghanaian singer

Ghanaian songstress Wendy Shay has opened up about the challenges women face in the country’s male-dominated music industry.

The ‘Uber Driver’ hitmaker revealed that some male artists demand sex before agreeing to lend their vocals to a female artist's song.

In an interview with TV3 Ghana for International Women's Day, Wendy Shay stressed that established female artists seeking collaborations often get turned down by their male counterparts while same people freely willingly the upcoming male acts.

"This is a male-dominated industry where women are mostly overlooked. There is this rejection on the path of women.

"You see them feature a normal male upcoming artiste but an established female artiste would like to have a feature from another male artiste and they want to be sexual so these are some of the things that women face and have to go through in the industry," Wendy Shay revealed.

While Wendy Shay uses her platform to promote and support up-and-coming female acts, she acknowledges there is more work to be done to empower women in the industry.