The ‘Yenko Nkoa’ hit maker Raymond Eduwoji  Gbedza known in the Ghanaian music industry as Eduwoji  has finally spoken about  his sudden absence from  the  music industry .Eduwoji  whose hit single ‘Yenko nkoa’  featuring Stay Jay was a big tune in 2011 and beyond has been on the silence for a while now .However in an interview with  Afia English  he stated that,  he has been in the studio working on a couple of  songs for his fans which he will be release soon.

According to him,  ‘Yenko nkoa’ was a success but the new ones coming will take his fans and the entire  music fraternity by surprise.

Besides  ‘Yenkoa’  eduwoji  has other songs to his credit including ‘I don’t care’ which features Edem, ‘Someone’ which is also out there now and one yet to be released collaboration with another budding musician Hecta whose evuna  song and a couple of others are currently enjoying massive airplay both in Ghana and Togo.

Source: Afia English

The  Volta regional capital Ho experienced for ones, a spectacular performances from the all new Hecta at the Volta regional Old School Reunion.

Hecta, one of the region’s celebrated artiste and Ghana's first rising and promising musician climbed the stage at Ho sports stadium last Saturday at the Old School Reunion with energy and skillfully moved the crowd. A day after the event, he visited the Ho municipality to show   appreciation for those who turned up to show their support for him.

However, the young kids were not exceptional; they hail him as he walk through some suburbs of the town. He shared some good memories of his childhood days with the kids and also urge them to respect their parents and make education their priority. Below are some of the pictures from the hang out with the kids.

Evicted Zimbabwean representative in the Big Brother Africa (The Chase) reality show, Pokello Nare seems to have received approval from her love, Elikem's family.

The Zimbabwean, who developed a strong bond with Ghana's Elikem, during her stay in the reality show disclosed after her eviction that, her relationship with him was not a gimmick and that she really has a thing for the Ghanaian.

"I'm feeling Elikem big time," Pokello said. When asked if it will survive outside the Big Brother house, she said: "I'm waiting for him."

To prove how serious she was about the Ghanaian, the Zimbabwean beauty, who was in a relationship with famous Zimbabwean rapper Desmond “Stunner” Chideme, was reported to have parted ways with the musician.

She is quoted to have said: "When I left the house, I spoke to Stunner on the phone about the developments in the house and we have agreed to be friends.” 

Pokello seems to be talking to Elikem's family since her eviction from the show and there are speculations that she could be making her way to Ghana as soon as her love wins or exits the reality show. Well she is confident Elikem will win the money!

The 'Queen of Swag' disclosed on twitter Monday that she has been having telephone conversations with some family members of the Ghanaian designer.

"Been quiet on twitter 2day,spent hours speaking to Elikem's brother on e fone. Too much love from Ghana.in laws are feeling me big time, lol," she posted.

Pokello's 10-year-old son seems to have also noticed the love bond between his mum and the Ghanaian.

She tweeted on July 27 that: "My son says 'Mum i think Elikem really misses u coz he is just sitting by myself'. Awwwww."

The 22-year-old student of the Institute of Chartered Accountants, Guiseppina Baafi who is now Miss Ghana 2013 says she is taking over with hard work from where the former Miss Ghana Naa Okailey Shooter left off.

Speaking to Joy News on Multi TV, the newly crowned Queen described how excited and at the same time shocked she was when her name was announced as Winner of the Miss Ghana 2013 Beauty Peagent.

“..it was exciting, I was so confused and I didn't believe it was my name when it was being mentioned,” she told Multi TV in an interview. She added, it had been her dream to be part of a beauty pageant and that winning Miss Ghana was a dream come true.

she added that she will work diligently in order to attain the set goals for “Miss Ghana, beauty with a purpose”.

“Miss Ghana foundation is a registered charity arm under the Miss Ghana beauty pageant. What they do is to assign projects to each Queen and her runner up. Naa’s own was infant maternal mortality. This was her assigned project. By sustaining her project, I have to take it up from where she left it”. 

Guiseppina Baafi hinted of plans to pursue a personal project, but she would not disclose further details.

“I have a personal project, I don’t want to say it on air, it’s a very special project. Apart from this project, I would like to have my own NGO someday that will be geared towards single mothers. My mum is my inspiration because she is a single mother too”.

The former graduate of New Juaben Senior High School (NJUASCO) is a die-hard fan of Spanish football giants Barcelona FC but loves to listen to Ghana's 'Rapperholic' Sarkodie whom she says is her favourite artiste. 

She advised the youth to "...always be who you are, be proud of it and work hard”.

The 12 contestants in the MTN Hitmaker reality show will be housed for thirteen weeks during the broadcast of the television series to determine who emerges as winner in the second season of the show.

This was made known to a gathering made up of media personnel, bloggers, sponsors, the contestants and their families during a short event to outdoor the contestants last Thursday evening at the poolside of the Oak Plaza Hotel in Accra.

An official of MTN Ghana Mr. Guido Sopiimeh, who unveiled the contestants, said while in the house the contestants “will be assigned to professional music production houses in Ghana who will support them in making their songs better.”

The producers of the show will also rely on season judges Ofie Cudjoe, Zapp Mallet and Bessa Simon to help groom the contestants into world class artistes. “The judges will also support by grooming the contestants to becoming the great performers that the MTN Hitmaker show wants them to be,” Mr. Sopiimeh mentioned.

According to the producers of the show there were over 2000 submission of demos across the country by wannabe musicians willing to take part in the season two of MTN Hitmaker. 

Mr. Sopiimeh told the gathering that “the demos received were subjected to rigorous scrutiny by our able panel of judges after which the best ones were invited to undergo an auditioning process.”

The twelve contestants who were unveiled to the gathering by Mr. Sopiimeh and MC for the evening Bola Ray ARE Abigail Antwi, Albert Buabeng, Stephen Kim (Kofi Korea), Olevya Aba, Fiifi Sey Armah, Priziners (George Kwasi Sarpong aka Abraham and Christopher Boakye Yiadom aka Kojo Boakye), Jamilatu Mohammed, Miguel Oduro Daniels (Qwabyna), Nana Adobea, Hussein Musah, Koo Ntakara and Gilbert Bossu (Cano-Z).

On their part judges for the season, who incidentally were the judges for the first season, were all happy for the choice they had made and were confident that the twelve finalists would not disappoint them when the reality show begins to air on television and viewers see the potential of the contestants.

It is planned by the producers that the 13 week television series of the MTN Hitmaker 2 show would commence from the first week of August and would air on Metro TV, GTV, Skyy TV and Multi TV on Sundays at 8:30pm.

The public can participate in the show by voting to keep their favourite contestants in the competition towards the weekly evictions.

The MTN Hitmaker season two has a prize package of a recording and artiste management deal worth GH¢100, 000.00 for the winner and GH¢50, 000.00 for the first runner-up. The third and fourth-placed winners as well as all finalists will also receive some handsome prizes.

MTN Hitmaker will also reward the sound engineer with the Best Beat on the show and weekly prizes for Best Performer, Best Appearance, Highest ‘Texters’ and more. Introduced last year, the show aims at identifying, grooming and supporting young aspiring artistes to record their own music and turning them into stars.

The first season was a huge success and everyone saw the wonderful, transformed talents on television for several weeks before the final showdown at the Accra International Conference Centre where Shadrach Adjei alias Naterial beat Miriam, Chiki and Atimbilla to claim the first prize.

Miriam placed second. Naterial and her have since recorded their debut albums titled Mamle and My Testimony respectively. 

The Hitmaker initiative is championed by MTN and supported by the MTN Ghana Foundation under the auspices of the Youth Empowerment Programme in partnership with the Musicians Union of Ghana (MUSIGA).

After opening Sarkodie’s  Kwahu  Rapperholic  X’perience few months  ago, the  duo are back  to thrill their  fans and audiences  with their  stylish performances.

Gallaxy has been billed by the organizers of the maiden edition of Miss Supranational  Ghana to rock at the grand finale on the 20^th of July,2013.Miss Supranational finals will be held at Nungua Royal Majesty Hotel formerly known as Ravico hotel.Other stars like AJ Nelson,Miz Porsche,One Fame has also confirm their participation respectively.

The event organizers confirmed the information on their  facebook and twitter fan page with  a  post which reads   “Gallaxy GH has promised to surprise their fans and audience who will be in attendance tomorrow evening at 6pm|Royal Majesty Hotel The duo from Harbour City Recordz has a lot to deliver back to back. Check their tunes out __ Iwww.reverbnation.com/gallaxygh  Its Supranational Ghana 2013 grand finale”

In responds, Gallaxy has admitted   they will be performing and has also added that, their fans should expect a lot from them .

Joni Blaze is a professional Architecture draftsman from Kwame Nkrumah University of science and technology and a former co-host with Radio Focus in Kumasi has been on radio since 2008 till he joined XFM95.1 in 2012.

 Joni blaze said this in an exclusive interview with Showbiz GH.  According to the presenter he is better than Blakk Rasta because;

 ‘i am the only one who blends  Ghanaian  and Jamaican dancehall/reggae tunes with introduction in   ‘patois’  to teach the Ghetto youth and educate them on issues confronting the society and the dancehall industry’.

 ‘I also receive a lot of calls on my show which indicates that my listeners are very passionate about the   show.

He   also continue to add that  he has hosted  the crème de la crème  of Ghanaian  musicians  including the  likes of  Sarkodie , Mugeez, Yaa Pono ,Stay J,D-cryme and many more on his show .

Commenting on the upcoming Bass Awards he added that "I love all Ghanaian dancehall and reggae musicians and may the best of them win the first edition of the awards"  

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After weeks of auditioning and screening by Judges of A1 Radio to select the final five (5) finalists, competition among these  five (5):  Akamorige Thomas (Tommy), Martin Soore Mbabil (Skairy Soorebia), Fatima, Hot.k and Solomon Angme (Natty Vybzs) became tired. The general public had to vote so as to get who represents the Upper East Region at the ‘’MTN HITS MAKER SEASON II’’. Martin Soore Mbabil (Skairy Soorebia) emerged the winner and Upper East’s regional representative in this year’s ‘’MTN HITS MAKER SEASON II’’.

The final results were collated by A1 Radio’s entertainment crew on Sunday 23rd June, 2013 and announced at around 14:00 GMT by the host of the programme Deejay Lexis after all the five (5) finalists were introduced and asked to perform their own songs to instrumentals produced by the DJ. Fans were also given the opportunity to call in and wish their favorite artiste the best of luck.

In an exclusive interview with the Programmes Head of A1 Radio and a member of the entertainment crew Mr. Emmanuel Aboagye as to how the collation was done, he said they put together the votes from both the phone-ins and text via the short code 1406 for each of the artistes which was crossed check by the MTN team before it was released.

According to the results collated, Fatima came 5th with 118 votes, Solomon Angme came 4th with 136 votes, Hot.k 3rd with 421 votes, Akamorige Thomas (Tommy) 2nd with 499 votes and Martin Soore Mbabil (Skairy Soorebia) 1st with 559 votes. The artistes all accepted the outcome and gave their final messages and also promised to support the winner when the whole competition begins in the MTN house which will be live on television.

A1 Radio entertainment crew will be following on every step bringing updates on the competition as and when it happens.

By: A1 Radio Entertainment Desk | A1radioonline.com