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Charterhouse, Event Organisers of Ghana Music Awards (GMA) blundered badly when they gave the Best Female Vocal Performance award to a duo they manage. Irene and Jane were massively booed on stage after receiving the award during this year’s GMA held Saturday at the National Theatre, Accra.
It is the first time in the nine-year history of the event that a dissapointed audience has booed award recipients that way.
Irene and Jane won the Charterhouse-organised reality TV show, Stars of the Future, and are currently being produced and managed by same outfit. Nominees in this year’s Best Female Vocal Performance category include, Becca, Ohenmaa Mercy, Cee and Diamond Hamilton Antwi.
Most people in the audience expected the award to go to either Becca or Ohenmaa Mercy but the organisers of the show thought the good people of Ghana could be taken for granted. Irene and Jane whose songs aren’t as well-known and widely accepted as Becca’s and Ohenmaa Mercy’s showed by their physical and verbal expressions on stage they didn’t deserve the award.
The audience registered their displeasure strongly enough to send Irene and Jane and the MTN official who was invited to present the award off stage. Analysts see that moment as ‘the single most embarrassing moment in GMA history’.
Questions are being asked whether the organisers of GMA should be involved in producing and managing artists. Charterhouse is yet to explain to Ghanaians the reason for this blatant conflict of interest.
Also, the boycott of the event by prominent Gospel musicians and Record Labels in Ghana is a pointer to the loss of confidence in the credibility of the awards by stakeholders in the industry.
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in my opinion,thier voices are extremely fantastic just that the kind of music they intend doing aint that popular in the local market.so just for this award they really deserved it.
I strongly agree with the audience. I was in ghana for almost five months. I hardly heard their music being played on air or tv. When i would go out and ohemaa mercy or cee’s song were being played, the crowd would go crazy. Ohemaa mercy and cee’s song has lots of recognition and hard workers in the music industry. I believe one of them should received the award, not irene and not even becca. They don’t deserve the award at allll.
i really think the 2 of them are just fantastic but i love jane more and i am looking forward to featuring that hot pie in one of ma songs…………….
If their music is good and the lyrics relevant, I dont think it is any mistake for the organizers to give them the awards. We have to recognize the fact that sometimes, the music that receives most air play or is most popular among the populace might not be necessarily the best in the nation.
Congratulations to them anyway.