Famend Ghanaian musician and entrepreneur, Rex Owusu Marfo, popularly referred to as Rex Omar, has been appointed as a Presidential Staffer for the Black Star Expertise.
Rex Omar confirmed the appointment to Myjoyonline.com on Wednesday, twenty sixth February 2025.
The Black Star Expertise is the Nationwide Democratic Congress’ (NDC) flagship initiative in Tradition, Arts, and Tourism. It goals to redefine and affirm Ghanaian id, appeal to investments, create new jobs, and increase tourism. The initiative will characteristic year-round celebrations throughout main leisure, inventive, and academic disciplines.
Rex Omar is a celebrated Ghanaian highlife musician and a skilled administration skilled specialising in mental property rights. He’s recognised as certainly one of Ghana’s main authorities on this area.
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He was elected Chairman of the Ghana Music Rights Organisation (GHAMRO) in March 2017 for a four-year time period and was re-elected for a second time period.
His experience and affect within the music trade have earned him a number of notable positions, together with former Vice President of the Copyright Society of Ghana and a member of the 2013 Committee for Nationwide Mental Property and Coverage Technique. He additionally beforehand served as Head of Enterprise and Finance on the Musicians Union of Ghana (MUSIGA).
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Rex Omar is a member of SUISSA, the Copyright Society of Switzerland, and holds a publishing contract with EMI (Germany).
Past music, he has been an advisor to President John Mahama and the NDC on the event of the inventive arts sector in Ghana. He has additionally served because the celebration’s public spokesperson on issues referring to tradition, leisure, and the inventive arts trade.
