Ubi Franklin, the music executive, has opened up on the reason he includes a clause in contracts preventing female artistes from getting pregnant during the agreement period.
The talent manager while speaking on the Culture Sonic podcast, disclosed that the entertainment business is capital-intensive and sometimes investors spend up to ₦300 million to develop an artist who has not yet attained stardom.
According to him, if a female artist gets pregnant before building a strong and stable career, it could ruin the investment and disrupt their progress.
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He noted that although he’s not against women having children, they must establish themselves first.
He said, “So just imagine that you have an artiste who you are investing in as a woman and she gets pregnant., that’s over. Ir will take a lot for the artistes to come back. Tell me any, any female artistes in our industry who has had a baby, who had not built a proper career and then went to have a baby and came back. I’m not saying they cannot have children, but the thing is, while you have it, build a strong career. Just imagine that you invest money in a female artiste, you’re pushing the artiste, you’re pushing to a certain level.
“If I’m signing a female artiste, I always put it on a contract that for the duration of a contract, you will not get pregnant. If you’re watching me, this is a freaking business we should stop making it look like because you see artistes playing and everything on social media you can interact with artistes this is a freaking business. Right now to break an artiste, with 150 million, you’ve not even started. Sometimes you can spend 300 million on an artiste and get nothing as profit.”
