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Nigeria To Host All Africa Music Awards …As Committee Calls For Entries
The All Africa Music
Awards, AFRIMA stakeholders conference with the theme: “Harnessing our music potentials for Africa’s development” was held on April 15, 2014 in Victoria Island, Lagos which prepared the ground towards heralding the biggest music awards on African continent billed to hold in Nigeria in October 25, 2014.
The Producer and Regional Director, East Africa, Mr Mike Strano during his opening presentation at the event noted that AFRIMA is a narrative of African music, culture and heritage on the global stage, it is fashioned as a medium to enhance African music industry’s bottom line and communicated harmony in Africa with the mandate of producing an international platform to celebrate our cultural heritage and values, rewarding up and coming as well as established talent and celebrating sustainable growth of the African music industry as a contribution to national and continental economics.
It was gathered that the international committee of AFRIMA has opened submission of entries for musical works across Africa for the 2014 edition. Entries open from May 15, 2014 to July 5, 2014 and the following music professionals of African origin living either on the continent or abroad are eligible to enter for the awards under the 30 categories such as: Artists, Song Writers, Video Directors, Music producers and music journalists, as well as unrecorded artistes who can upload their songs/videos in YouTubes.
Works to be submitted must be produced in the year under review, May 31, 2013 to July 4, 2014. Format of submission and eligibility is available on WWW.Africa.Org.
Qualified entries will be selected by the Academy of AFRIMA which consists of the Jury and College of voters. Revealing further information about the makeup of the academy, AFRIMA Regional Director, Central Africa, Mr Ernest Ewane, said the jury consists of 13 people who have spent reasonable amount of years in the music industry and have vast knowledge in music who do not perform or produce songs anymore and people who are well respected in the industry across Africa and Diaspora. They are professionals with impeccable understanding of music.”
While the academy consists of 527 members to vote for the categories. In this process of selecting nominees and eventual winners of the coveted award trophy, AFRIMA is keen to uphold its FACE IT value which stands for fairness, accountability, creativity, excellence, integrity and transparency.
R&B star, Temilade Openiyi, popularly known as Tems, has recounted the early-career challenges she faced, revealing that she was once booed out of the stage while performing at a school event.
Speaking in an interview with Newsmen, the Crazy Tings crooner shared that she wasn’t only booed but was also harassed with plastic bottles.
“I remember one time I was going to perform at my school as an up-and-coming singer and I thought I was going to receiving a standing ovation.
“But I got booed. They even threw plastic bottles at me,” she recalled.
Tems explained that despite the embarrassing incident and other such rejections, she remained determined to pursue a career in music.
The Tide Entertainment reports that Tems admitted that some of the initial rejections she faced could be due to her conviction to stick to her originality instead of doing covers or familiar sounds like most of her peers.
The Grammy-winning singer said looking back now, she is glad that she didn’t compromise her style despite the initial pressures.
A close associate of late singer Mohbad, Primeboy, has appealed for the artiste’s burial nearly three years after his death.
According to him, Mohbad’s body remains in the mortuary since September 12, 2023, pending burial arrangements.
The Tide Entertainment reports that in a statement Primeboy urged the family, public, and government to permit the burial, stating, “It’s been almost three years since Mohbad left us. His body is still in the mortuary. I’m begging the family, I’m begging the public, I’m begging the government, please let’s bury our brother. He deserves a befitting burial.”
It would be recalled that Mohbad’s death sparked public outrage, protests, and investigations. Ongoing autopsy examinations, police inquiries, and legal proceedings have delayed burial arrangements amid family disagreements and public scrutiny.
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