{"id":41093,"date":"2025-11-08T19:42:30","date_gmt":"2025-11-08T19:42:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/?p=41093"},"modified":"2025-11-08T19:42:30","modified_gmt":"2025-11-08T19:42:30","slug":"utm_sourcerssutm_mediumrssutm_campaigndeborah-frasers-family-cries-out-over-unpaid-royalties-three-years-after-her-passing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/2025\/11\/08\/utm_sourcerssutm_mediumrssutm_campaigndeborah-frasers-family-cries-out-over-unpaid-royalties-three-years-after-her-passing\/","title":{"rendered":"Deborah Fraser\u2019s family cries out over unpaid royalties three years after her passing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script data-jetpack-boost=\"ignore\" async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-1669381584671856\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- Africa tv video display -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1669381584671856\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"3579572842\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script data-jetpack-boost=\"ignore\">\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">&#13;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_105852\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-105852\" class=\"wp-image-105852 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Deborah-Frasers-family-cries-out-over-unpaid-royalties-three-years.jpg?resize=600%2C390&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"390\" srcset=\"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Deborah-Frasers-family-cries-out-over-unpaid-royalties-three-years.jpg 600w, https:\/\/fakazanews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Deborah-Fraser-300x195.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\"\/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-105852\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Deborah Fraser<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The family of late gospel icon Deborah Fraser has opened up about their financial struggles, revealing that they have yet to receive any royalties from her music more than three years after her death.<\/p>\n<p>Fraser\u2019s son, Nkosana, said the family has been trying to get answers from Universal Music Group, the label responsible for his mother\u2019s catalogue, but their attempts to communicate have been ignored.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve never received my mom\u2019s royalties, and we are struggling. What makes things worse is that Universal Music is not communicating with us. We\u2019ve tried to reach out to them, but we are not getting any response,\u201d Nkosana told Sunday World.<\/p>\n<p>According to the publication, the family shared copies of unanswered emails they sent to Universal, requesting financial statements and updates about the royalties owed to them.<\/p>\n<p>Nkosana said they even approached the company in 2023 with his mother\u2019s former manager, Nontando Mafisa, seeking clarity on the situation, but still received no explanation.<\/p>\n<p>He explained that Universal had informed them that at the time of Deborah\u2019s passing, she owed the label two albums.<\/p>\n<p>Before her death in 2022, the beloved Abanye Bayombona singer had already recorded 12 songs, which the company later decided to split into two separate albums.<\/p>\n<p>One of the albums was released in 2023, but the remaining six songs have yet to be made public.<\/p>\n<p>Nkosana said the family is frustrated that they have not been provided with financial statements showing how much Universal Music has earned from his mother\u2019s work since her passing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe should be getting financial statements from Universal Music to see our mother\u2019s earnings, but we are not getting anything. This is frustrating and painful,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p><!-- CONTENT END 4 -->\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p><script data-jetpack-boost=\"ignore\" async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-1669381584671856\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- Africa tv video display -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1669381584671856\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"3579572842\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script data-jetpack-boost=\"ignore\">\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n#Deborah #Frasers #family #cries #unpaid #royalties #years #passing<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#13; Deborah Fraser The family of late gospel icon Deborah Fraser has opened up about their financial struggles, revealing that&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":41094,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mzansi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41093","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41093"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41093\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41095,"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41093\/revisions\/41095"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}