Some artiste management contracts have a Power of Attorney clause. This clause gives the manager the power to make binding decisions and enter into contracts on behalf of the artiste within whatever scope the clause defines. When such a clause is in place, the manager does not need to forge the artiste’s signature before binding them to a contract covered by that scope. This is why it’s very important to pay attention to this clause and limit the scope of the kind of documents or contracts the manager may sign on behalf of the artiste. Another layer of protection is to reserve approval rights for all decisions and contracts.

The major issue is splits. Most of our creatives in the music space are still grappling with the issue of splits and it’s worse when OGs enter the chat 😂 so I hope he has that covered. The next issue is whether he’s signed with a PRO (which collects only public performance royalties) and a publisher (which generally collects both mechanical and public performance royalties). If GHAMRO were effective, membership alone would have guaranteed he was collecting most of his money but yawa dey 😅.