Ghanaian hiplife artiste C-Zar has revealed that he quit doing commercial music to venture into entrepreneurship because he did not want to die a pauper.

Being in the industry for over a decade, the ‘Araba Lawson’ hitmaker to Zylofon FM, Tuesday, his decision was influenced by the fact that show business is not more lucrative, and he could end up going broke.

According to him, he started the electrical business alongside the music but realized that the music which was non-profit was taking most of the time hence had to decide on one.

C-Zar said the decision to venture into electrical business has helped him, disclosing that he has expanded the business by opening other branches.

“I have quit music for good, I don’t want to die poor. Sincerely, show business doesn’t pay in our part of the world. See how all the veterans die as if they have never been in the limelight.

“I don’t even want to see myself in such a condition in future where my family has to appeal for funds to take care of me should I fall sick,

“I can say that barely 10 people in showbiz are really raking in huge sums which suits their status as celebrities but in reality, many are broke because it doesn’t pay much,”

“I nearly collapsed my electrical business because I was focused on doing music but realizing that the electrical business was more profitable, I had to quit the music.” he added.

In the early 2000s, C-Zar was one of the popular artistes in the Hiplife industry.

His hit songs like “Araba Lawson” and “Mercy Lokko” were on the charts and the latter song won him the Hiplife Song of the Year at the Ghana Music Awards in 2009.

C-zar enjoyed a good career with hit albums like Sunsum Sofo (2003), Araba Lawson (2006), Mercy Lokko (2008) with the last release being Azonto Pandemic in 2012.