On February 08, 2018, Ghana lost one of its most promising musical talents in the name of Priscilla Agyemang known in showbiz as Ebony Reigns.
Hours after news of her death hit the public, various reports, articles and rumours on the life on Ebony began to trend on the internet with various media platforms telling the sad story of how Ebony Reigns and her two other friends tragically loss their lives in a fatal road accident.
While a lot of media reports have chronicled the short but beautiful life of Ebony and her wonderful music career that span just over two years, many other issues were left unreported and Asembi.com brings them to readers.
Ebony’s Betrayal and Bullet’s revenge
Before Ebony passed away, her last days were marked with series of cautions and subtle jabs from Bullet, CEO of RuffTown Records. At a point, speculations went rife that Ebony had left RuffTown Records to sign for a Nigerian record label.
However, Bullet was struggling to hold on to Ebony and felt betrayed that Ebony not on a single occasion came out to debunk rumours of her joining another label. This made Bullet believe that Ebony wanted out of his label and wasn’t committed to the project he had in store for her.
The situation got to a breaking point when Bullet in a radio interview said she could make and unmake Ebony because he was the one writing most of her songs for her.
In that interview, one could clearly feel the disappointment and revenge in Bullet’s tone of language. One may ask, What was the relationship between Ebony and her management before her tragic accident? Was Ebony already on her own? Was the accident a planned revenge?
Zylofon’s bailout
While Ebony and Bullet were reportedly having issues, multi-million record label, Zylofon Media was also in talks with the young music prodigy without her management’s consent.
The CEO of Zylofon Media, Nana Appiah Mensah said on Instagram the day after Ebony’s death that she was just days away from signing for Zylofon Media pending a $100,000 bailout which Bullet knew nothing of.
Why was Ebony in a rush to leave the label that made her? What problems were she facing? Was it a mere ungratefulness and betrayal?
How come her management didn’t know about her travel?
This is a question that is seriously begging for answers. Ebony, even though was famous and making huge money from her music career, was just 20 years and as such needed to be monitored all the time, her whereabouts should have been taken serious by her management.
A section of the public was alarmed when her manager, Bullet, stated categorically that he didn’t know Ebony had travelled to Sunyani to see her mother. Like seriously? The dead cannot defend herself.
The fact that a whole record label handling a 20-year old female artiste doesn’t know about her travel casts doubts if someone is really telling the truth. Though the cause of her death is accident, the driver coming out alive means everything is possible.
Sexual harassment?
While most people have been talking about Ebony and all her related issues, this is one major topic that has been left untouched. Was Ebony being sexually harassed in the industry?
This important question needed to be asked because of Nana Appiah Mensah’s post on social media in her tribute to the late songstress. Part of his quote reads “We should pay close attention to our female artistes”. The mention of female by Nana Appiah stresses on the fact that the problem faced by Ebony was female-related.
The only problem that could be peculiar to a female is sexual harassment. Nana Appiah Mensah definitely would not have made this statement if he had no idea or knowledge of the problem Ebony was going through in the industry as a female.
Then again, another question that comes to mind is “Did Ebony confide in Nana Appiah Mensah of her predicament and problems in the industry?” if she did, who could be those she mentioned to Nana Appiah Mensah? There are so many questions.
SOURCE: Ghanaweb.com
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