About Us

The following objectives are set to meet the aim of the Union:

To secure the complete organization of all musicians for their mutual protection and advancement.

To protect the creative and performing rights of all musicians in the country.

To have a meaningful voice in decisions that affect musicians and to regulate members’ relations with their employers and/or employers’ associations, and with each other.

To promote the healthy growth of the music industry in Ghana.

To develop the talents, knowledge and skills of musicians

To ensure that the musician's voice is heard at every level of government to create economic opportunity and foster social justice in a democratic and progressive Union, in particular through the improvement of members’ status and remuneration.

To promote the welfare and the interests of musicians in all ways.

To affiliate with all organizations which seek to promote the wellbeing ofmusicians in Ghana, Africa and the world

To build a good relationship with all the Cultural attaches in the variousembassies with the view to promoting Cultural exchange programs

To cater for the welfare of retired musicians

To raise and maintain high standards for practicing musicians.

To educate members on the profession and business of music.

To facilitate the provision of health, life, and accident insurance policies formembers.

To stimulate interest in the different musical traditions.

To work for the recognition that the expression of music is a fundamental human right.

To facilitate research on the music and entertainment industry's contribution to the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of Ghana

To develop highly trained and motivated leaders at every level of the Union to reflect the membership in all its diversity;

To achieve these objectives, Union members must commit to;
a. Treating each other with respect and dignity without regard to ethnicity, creed, sex, age, religion, disability, citizenship, marital and family status, or national origin;
b. Honoring the standards and expectations collectively set in pursuit of the vision, supporting and following the constitution adopted.
c. To further its objects MUSIGA may, as determined by the National Executive Council.
d. Establish and enforce, by negotiation or otherwise, all fees and subscriptions, all terms and conditions of employment and/or engagement, and all terms and conditions of use of members’ recorded performances (wherever in the world such uses occur).
e. Provide legal advice and assistance under such criteria as established by the National Executive Council.

f. Print and publish periodicals or other literature where necessary.
g. Purchase, take on lease or in exchange, hire or otherwise acquire any real and/or personal property and/or any rights or privileges which MUSIGA may think necessary or convenient for its purpose and lease, manage, mortgage, sell, deal with or dispose of the same.
h. Affiliate to, amalgamate, co-operate, or federate with any other organization.
i. Invest and manage funds not immediately required.
j. Promote, acquire, and carry on any business either alone or with any other person or body, either directly or indirectly, and to promote and to acquire all or any of the share or loan capital of any company, engaging in or proposing to engage in any activity which may be conducive to the attainment of all or any of the Union’s objects.
k. Undertake and execute any trusts; raise funds for and/or make donations, grants, or loans to, any object which is charitable or benevolent or conducive to the attainment of all or any of the Union’s objects.
l. Do all such things not contained within these Rules as conducive to attaining all or any of the Union’s objects.