So nasty is the situation that there was a reported fist
fight last weekend between the gifted lyricist’s family and his friends over
his inheritance. The family has since approached lawyers to stop producers and
other music stakeholders from releasing or profiting from the artiste’s music
royalties.
“The family does not understand the environment that he
worked in and it will be interesting to see how they will stop the release or
use of Soul Jah Love’s content by different people whom he worked with throughout
his career.
“What I know is that Soul Jah Love would just walk into a
studio and record for free as a way of supporting the studio. I do not know of
any producer who says they were paid to record him. If anything, producers
would fight to have him on their microphones and that was how they handled
their business..
“It would be hard for anyone to stop the release of such
music if it was created under such mutual agreements,” the musician’s former
manager Benjamin Nyandoro told the Standard.
Music critic Plot Mhako, it is likely that Soul Jah Love
was robbed of his royalties in life and “the same will happen in his death”.
“It is unfortunate that Sauro had his music distributed on
too many platforms and did not have much control over his content online. Now
his estate or family has to engage some professional distributor to make sure
that the already released content is on the right platform they have access to
and can directly benefit from,” he said.
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