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Nana Ampadu and Morrison suspended from MUSIGA
Nana Kwame Ampadu and Mr. C. K. Morrison, both veteran highlife musicians and members of the National Executive Committee (NEC) of the Musicians Union of Ghana (MUSIGA), have been suspended indefinitely from the union.
“The NEC… More »
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Who needs a Ghana Music Award?
Mzbel without a doubt is the biggest female Hiplife artist in Ghana; and there is no denying that her success is largely due to her ability to push the envelope and stir up controversies. From… More »
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Organisers surprised at criticism over MTN Ghana Music Awards
The organisers of the annual MTN Ghana Music Awards Festival, Charter House, have expressed surprise at the criticism and allegation by the public that it influenced the results of this year’s awards. More »
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Singer Becca was overcome with emotion and could not hold back the tears when she attempted to say a few words after being presented with the Record of the Year award at the 9th MTN Ghana Music Awards 2008 main event at the National Theatre on April 25. More »
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Musicians dream of one-stop music centre
Ghanaian musicians have appealed to the government to assist the music industry to establish the first-ever one-stop music centre to cater for the entertainment needs of the large number of visitors into the country. More »
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Ghana’s self proclaimed King of the Streets has described Ja Rule as a spent force with no relevance in today’s hip-hop world.
“Ja Rule isn’t hot any more”, Kwaw Kesse said recently in a TV interview… More »
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The ghost of MTN Ghana Music Awards
The opening performance at the Ninth-MTN-Ghana Music Awards night by Kwaw Kesse and his group was, to say the least, so poor that some of my friends and I were put off; the group was… More »
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Ja Rule finally made the trip to Ghana. He was well received by Ghanaian music fans at the MTN Ghana Music Awards. Even though his performance was short, he gave a good account of himself. More »
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The President of the Musicians Union of Ghana (MUSIGA), Mrs Diana Hopson last week Friday could no longer conceal her outrage and boldly voiced out her total abhorrence of profanity and obscenity, during the MTN Music Awards. More »
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MTN Ghana Music Awards - The jeers and applause
Finally, it is all over, and the results of the lucky winners of this year’s MTN Ghana Music Awards, were released at the National Theatre, amidst a yellow carpet of celebrities who graced the occasion.
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Hail Kwaw Kesse, King Of The Street
The ‘King of the Street’ turned King of the 9th MTN Ghana Music Awards 2008 last Friday night and said he was not surprised to have picked the highest number of awards at the event because he has worked very hard since the beginning of last year. More »
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Music awards ‘boycott’ I wish I were there…says Ohemaa Mercy
Gospel songbird, Ohemaa Mercy, who missed out on last Friday’s prestigious 9th MTN Ghana Music Awards has expressed her regret that she could not be present to personally receive the three trophies and the GH¢1000 that comprised her awards. More »
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Video: Nacy wins Best Sound engineer
Nacy the newest beat maker, has his songs flooding the Ghanaian music industry also grabs an award at the GMA. More »
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Video: Kwaw Kese performs at GMA ‘08
Kwaw Kese was the first to open the stage with songs from Nonsense and Na Yatal. His hype men, Jagoo and Ex Doe had the audience eyes glued to the stage. More »
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Bandex explains absence from music awards
Music Producer, Ahmed Banda, famed in music circles as Bandex, has confirmed he personally asked Cee, Isaac and Ampong, three musicians in his stable not to attend the public awards of the MTN Ghana Music Awards ceremony. More »
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Irene and Jane get the biggest boo
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. More »
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Video: Kwaw Kese back stage at GMA ‘08
Ghana Music.com caught up with the King of Streets backstage before he walked into the hall of the National Theatre. After putting 3 awards into his basket, he voices out how wants to do a song with Ja Rule, the self proclaimed King of New York. More »
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Video: Ofori Amponsah wins Highlife Song of the Year
Ofori Amponsah aka All 4 Real took home the Highlife song of the year at this year’s MTN Ghana Music Awards. Watch how excited he was as he came on stage. More »
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Kwaw Kese tops online poll for MTN Ghana Music Awards
At long last the 2008 9th edition of Ghana Music Awards, honouring the most recognizable names in the Ghana music industry has come and gone. More »
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Video: Kwaw Kese acceptance speech for Hiplife Artiste of the Year
King of the Street, Kwaw Kese took the “Hiplife Artiste of the Year” with ease as he breezed pass his fellow hiplife musicians. More »
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Peter and Paul, collectively known as P Square are back in Ghana for the MTN Ghana Music Awards this year. Well, they were surprised to recieve an award at the GMA and dished out 3 good songs from their old and new album including the hit “Do Me”. More »
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Video: Captain Planet of 4×4 shows off
Even though Captain Planet of 4×4 did not win an award at the just ended 9th MTN Ghana Music Awards, he compensates himself by saying that for four years in a row, he has achieved the accolade for the “Best Dressed” musician in Ghana. More »
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Ghana Music Awards continues tomorrow
Tomorrow, a big musical jam will climax this year’s Ghana Music Award festival at the La Pleasure Beach, Accra, where one of New York’s best rappers, Jah Rule, is expected to invigorate thousands of music… More »
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Kwaw crowned the Artiste of the Year
The 2008 9th edition Ghana Music Awards, honoring the most recognizable names in the Ghana music industry rolled out at the National Theatre yesterday nite. More »
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Ja Rule arrives in Ghana for music awards
Heavyweight Rap Artiste Ja Rule was flexing hot on Joy FM Friday morning minutes after touching down in Accra ahead of his billed performances Friday night and Sunday beach act as part of the MTN/Ghana Music Awards celebration. More »
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Ghana Music Awards 2008: Who wins what?
Interspersed with exciting live stage performance by Adane Best, Michael Dwamena and No tribe, the 9th Ghana Music Awards Festival took off on a resounding musical note last Wednesday evening at the gardens of the La Palm Royal Beach Hotel with the Industry Awards segment of the awards. More »
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Kwaw Kese’s record label, Madtime Entertainment, on Wednesday won the Best Record Label of the Year award at MTN Ghana Music Awards Gala Night held at the La Palm Beach Hotel in Accra. More »
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Ghana Music Awards Festival begins
The MTN Ghana Music Awards Festival began Wednesday April 23, 2008 at the La Palm Royal Beach Hotel in Accra. More »
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Charterhouse lies about Ja Rule cause
Ms. Abena Turkson, Public Relations Officer of Charterhouse, Event Organisers, Ghana Music Awards (GMA) few weeks ago told Radio Gold’s Solid Gold Countdown that Ja Rule’s coming is based on a social cause but Ghanaians… More »
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Ghana Music Awards body casts votes
Members of the Selection Committee of the Ghana Music Awards (GMA) met on Saturday, April 12 to cast their votes for the forthcoming Ghana Music Awards. More »
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Hiplife star Kwaw Kese’s influence on the Ghanaian music scene is all-pervasive, and the nominations for this year’s MTN Ghana Music Award attest to this fact. More »
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Ja Rule to headline celebrations jam
We’ve seen them all– Brenda Fassie, Tony Tetuila, 2 Face, Dade Shoki, Blu 3, Awilo Logomba, Jeff Bogolobolo and D’Banji. They have graced the stages of the most pristegious music industry awards in Ghana and now it has been confirmed – one of America’s best rap artistes, Ja Rule, is to headline the Celebrations Jam of the MTN Ghana Music Awards festival 2008. More »
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Music producers call for recognition in awards
Record label owners on Friday expressed worry about non-inclusion of music producers in financial prizes that went with music awards. More »
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Singer, Samini presents award to MTN
Batman Samini, the Hip-life musician, who was recently adjudged the best Africa Artiste of the Year 2008 in a music awards held in Nigeria, has presented his award to the management of MTN Ghana. More »
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Gospel music guns for top GMA award
In what appears to be a departure from the established trend, gospel artistes have emerged with the highest number of nominations at this year’s edition of the Ghana Music Awards (GMA). More »
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Radio is such an effective medium it can make or unmake any personality, especially when such a personality gets the opportunity to speak on it. With millions of discerning people tuned in, attentive and meticulous to every word uttered, whoever it is must be very circumspect with the words that emanates from his/her mouth. More »
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The streets is still talking - 5Five
Rap group duo, 5five has been nominated for their work on their album, “Ur Luv” at the ninth MTN Ghana Music Awards. More »
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Ja Rule live in Ghana for Ghana Music Awards 2008
Confirmed information reaching Ghana Music.com is that hip hop Queens rapper, Jeffrey Atkins better known international as Ja Rule will making his debut appearance in Ghana as part of the ninth MTN Ghana Music Awards festival. More »
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MTN to the aid of Ghana Music, GH¢3,000 for top award
Award deserving musicians who have over the last eight years bemoaned the absence of cash awards at the annual Ghana Music Awards (GMA) can smile again. Thanks to mobile communications giant, MTN. More »
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The highlife artistes can talk all they want and the hiplife guys can shout all they want, but the fact still remains that Gospel Music is the most popular genre of music in Ghana. More »
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Nominations list of Ghana Music Awards to be revealed
Time is six o’clock in the evening, the day is Tuesday March 18, 2008 and all roads leading to the Golden Tulip hotel in Accra are jam packed with vehicles. Everyone is wondering what is happening to demand such attention. The answer is simple, the most prestigious music industry awards is being launched. More »
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Ghana’s Samini nominated for Best Artiste
One young, Ghanaian musician, whose music stimulates both the young and the old is Emmanuel Samini, known simply in showbiz as Samini. Since his emergence on the music scene in 2004 with his maiden album, Dankwansre, he has grown both in stature and popularity. More »
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Ghana Music Awards open forum two
Although the second pre Ghana Music Awards forum came on successful as scheduled, attendance is nothing to write home about. More »
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Veeda makes it clear at Ghana Music Awards open forum in Accra
The second phase of the ninth GMA dubbed Ghana Music Awards open forum came off at the Alisa Hotel, Ridge. The open forum was step by Charter House to intake opinions, contributions, suggestions and ideas of stakeholders in the Ghanaian music industry. More »
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Ghana Music Awards 2008 releases the categories and its definitions
Charter House has released the categories that will be awarded at this year’s Ghana Music Awards. In all, there are twenty-six categories in all and they have been well defined below. More »
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The first of three open forums scheduled as part of events leading up to the launch of the Ghana Music Awards, came off in Kumasi over the weekend. More »
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Ghana Music awards, will DJs carry the day?
Once again preparations are underway for this year’s Ghana Music Awards which comes off in March and as usual, managers of some notable artists who also serve as Disk Jockeys at the various radio and television stations have began connecting their way in and lobbying for awards for their clients. More »
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Video: Ekow Alabi talks about the upcoming Ghana Music Awards
Germany-based Ghanaian musician, Ekow Savage Alabi recently told Ghana Music.com that he is aiming for the Grammy awards and not the Ghana Music Awards . Ekow Alabi plays the drum very well and is credited for helping a lot of African musicians around the world. His latest album, Going for Gold is not doing bad on the world market. More »
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Mzbel’s threat to stop music awards - Can she, can’t she?
Mzbel’s outright comment that she does not want to have anything to do with this year’s Ghana Music Awards (GMA) has been a source of intense discussion in showbusiness circles since last week. More »
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Leave me out - Mzbel tells Ghana Music Awards
Getting nominated and winning an award from the Ghana Music Awards (GMA) may be the dream of most musicians and those connected to the music business but not for hiplife sensation, Mzbel. Mzbel who has been nominated for a GMA award many times since she burst onto the Ghanaian music scene no longer wants to be part of the yearly process that recognises the good work of deserving artistes. More »
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Ghana Music Awards 2008 nominations out
New faces, new voices and new names will dominate this year’s Ghana Music Awards. 2007 can fairly be said to be a not-too-vibrant year for Hiplife in Ghana. Same cannot be said of Ghanaian Gospel music as they occupied the number one position in most of the chart shows in the country. It was almost a dead year for Highlife releases last year. The most notable Highlife album released last year is Gyedu Blay Ambulley’s ‘Next Generation’. More »
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Kwaku Gyasi: I still can’t believe it
May be for artistes like Kwaku Gyasi at this year’s Ghana Music Awards (GMA) it had to be the Most Popular Song Award at the Ghana Music Awards or nothing else. More »
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Emmanuel Andrew Samini Ghana’s current hottest urban musician has expressed his gratitude to any living soul who has contributed in one way or the other to his success so far. More »
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The making of Kweku Gyasi’s ‘Onyame Aseda’ – The Best Gospel Artiste, Album and Song of the Year
Kwaku Gyasi had a unique interview to take us through the making of one of the most enjoyed song / album – “Onyame Aseda” just after the ended Ghana Music Awards Festival 2007 (Golden Jubilee Edition). More »
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Ghana Music Awards: the great - and not so great - moments
There was a great lift for traditional Ghanaian music at the highlight of the Golden Jubilee Ghana Music Awards last Saturday, with the unexpected win of King Ayisoba’s “I want to see you my father eee” of the Most Popular Song of the Year. More »
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GMA is over…highest winners voice out
The Ghana Music Awards Festival seeks to honour musicians in the Ghanaian music calendar that have excelled during a certain period ranging from highlife to gospel to hiplife to African pop. More »
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