Dancehall artiste, Stonebwoy claimed the coveted Artist of the Year award at the just-ended 3Music Awards ceremony held in Accra over the weekend. This follows his impressive performance at the 2024 Telecel Ghana Music Awards months ago, where he won seven trophies, including the top honour for the second time. The winners of this year’s awards aside Stonebwoy were Black ...
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Daddy Lumba marks 60, astonished by ‘the grace of the Creator’
“This is the first time ever, in 60 years, that I’m celebrating my birthday,” Daddy Lumba said, in a viral video. The music icon and businessman expressed gladness to celebrate his birth anniversary today, Sunday, September 29, 2024, with all his loved ones, including “the crew, fun clubs” etc. The Mensei Da (I Shan’t Be Destroyed) hitmaker, also, testified about ...
Read More »Adjetey Anang suggests actors can fight ‘galamsey’ better through stories than protests
Ghanaian actor Adjetey Anang popularly known as Pusher, has highlighted the impact of storytelling in addressing societal ills like illegal mining, known in Ghanaian parlance as galamsey. While reacting to a question about the need for creative industry people to add their voices to the campaign against illegal mining, the ‘Things We Do for Love’ actor said they wield so much ...
Read More »4 Media General journalists honoured at 28th GJA Awards
Four journalists working with Media General have been honoured for their sterling and impactful story telling prowess at the 28th Ghana Journalists Association Awards held on September 28. Castro Senyala, Bill Eshun, Godwin Asediba and Stanley Nii Blewu were among over thirty journalists recognized on the night. The awards ceremony was used to recognize 32 individual journalists, media organizations and ...
Read More »Legendary Maze singer Frankie Beverly dies aged 77
Maze singer Frankie Beverly has died aged 77, his family have confirmed. The soul star – known for hits such as Before I Let Go and Can’t Get Over You – died on Tuesday. Beverly’s family announced the news on social media, saying in a statement that he lived his life with “pure soul”. The singer’s cause of death has ...
Read More »MTV VMAs: Tyla lifts Afrobeats trophy but argues for Amapiano, African music diversity
Tyla’s acceptance speech at the MTV Video Music Awards 2024 was a masterclass on assertiveness and eloquence punctuated with charming femininity. When the South African singer received the Best Afrobeats award via her worldwide hit Water, she relished the milestone and noted the song’s global impact, arguing it was a testimony to the economic viability of African music marketed as pop music the ...
Read More »‘Mom was attacked with a gun’ – KOD warns youth against romanticising coups, outlines alternatives
A Creative Arts Spokesperson for the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Kofi Okyere-Darko, alias KOD, has strongly warned the youth against thinking coups and revolutions are the answers to their burning questions about governance, accountability and the economy. KOD spoke to Prince Benjamin (PB) on the Class Morning Show on Class 91.3 FM. “These young people have only read stories and ...
Read More »NPP campaign song: Manager reveals other artistes took Kwabena Kwabena’s money
Kwabena Kwabena’s manager, Nana Poku Ashis, has disclosed that some people accepted money in the name of his artiste after he composed a campaign song for the New Patriotic Party in 2016. Ashis, addressing the issue of whether Kwabena Kwabena charged an amount for the song, emphatically stated that few friends of the musician who were party members took money ...
Read More »GMA-UK Unveils Nominees
The organisers of the Ghana Music Awards UK have officially released the nominees list and categories for this year’s edition of the awards at a ceremony held at YAYA La Parisienne in Labone, ahead of the main event on October 19, 2024 in London. The nominees unveiling ceremony, which was strictly by invitation, was attended by a number of personalities ...
Read More »Kuami Eugene: Singer announces self-named record label, first single ‘Belinda’ after exiting Lynx
Singer-songwriter and record producer Kuami Eugene has announced his first single after exiting Lynx Entertainment. On the cover art, shared on the musician’s X, Tuesday, September 10, 2024, it was indicated the song, Belinda, would be released via Rock Star Records and Road Clear Music Group. Rock Star, for years, has been Kuami Eugene’s self-proclaimed appellation and the name he works ...
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