Sexual assault in the music industry

Business Daily

BBC

News, Business

4.4 • 796 Ratings

🗓️ 12 March 2021

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

As women begin to speak out against sexual violence and harassment, does the music industry face a #metoo reckoning?

Manuela Saragosa speaks to her colleague Tamanna Rahman about her investigation for BBC television into numerous claims of abuse, assault and rape, as many women finally break their silence. They discuss the cases of grime artist Solo 45, who was sentenced to prison for multiple counts of rape, and the superstar DJ Erick Morillo, who died last year shortly after being accused of drugging and raping a colleague.

But Tamanna says there are numerous other women she has spoken to who are still afraid to go public with their stories, in many cases because they fear destroying their careers. So what can be done, and what should the big record labels be doing in particular?

Producer: Laurence Knight

(Picture: Lone female street artist holds head in despair next to a guitar; Credit: JoseASReyes/Getty Images)

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to Business Daily from the BBC. I'm Manuela Saragossa. Coming up, a Me Too moment for the music industry, more women are coming forward with allegations of sexual harassment and abuse in the sector.
0:15.0	He specifically said in the police report that he did not have sex with me. DNA testing came back and proved that that was a lie.
0:23.4	And they had found a date rape drug in my system, which was really, really shocking to me.
0:30.2	But why have women in music remained silent for so long? We speak to Tamanah Raman, who asked the
0:36.1	question in a BBC documentary.
0:38.4	That's Business Daily from the BBC, and a warning that this edition does contain some disturbing content.
0:48.3	We were in this crowded smoking area, and he touched my breast.
0:52.9	And I said, oh, what are you doing?
0:55.5	Don't do that.
0:57.0	Don't do that again.
0:58.0	And I didn't want to cause a scene.
1:00.5	I just thought, here we go again.
1:02.7	It's just going to be a case of me telling him,
1:05.5	oh, sorry, you've got this wrong.
1:08.0	I don't want that.
1:09.6	I have my last cigarette in a dream. I dream with you and get this wrong. I don't want that.
1:28.8	Amy there was a member of a band called Hello Monro In 2017, she was introduced to a record producer.
1:33.1	The introduction should have been a great potential career opportunity.
1:37.9	Instead, it quickly descended into a nightmare at a house party one evening when the record producer went on to sexually assault her.
1:42.0	And I got such a shock and I turned around and I said,
1:45.7	if you ever do that again, I'll slit your throat.
1:49.2	Can't say I'm not assertive.
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