Daddy Bosco Heads BASS Awards

Ahuma ‘ Daddy Bosco’ Ocansey , administrator of the Musicians Union of Ghana (MUSIGA) has been appointed Chairman of the 2014 BASS Awards Committee .

The committee is responsible for this year ’ s edition of BASS Awards ; the biggest Reggae and Dancehall Awards in Africa .

The award is specially designed to show gratitude to reggae and dancehall musicians, to serve as an annual gathering of lovers of reggae and dancehall and generally present top notch entertainment to the public.

The announcement that Bosco is the head of the committee has been received with applauds and lots of recommendation because of his reputation and track record in the promotion of reggae and dancehall music .

He will be working on the committee with other music heavyweights including Kwasi Nyarko ( Root Eye) , Nii Ayitey Okai ( Black Santino) , Edward Ohene - Djan ( Eddie Ranks ) , Elorm Beenie , Isaac A . T . Mooney ( King Lagazee) , Zapp Mallet , Makeba Boateng and Ezekiel Tetteh .

Together they will be responsible for the call of entries and collation of submitted materials or works for this year ’ s awards . They will also be responsible for sorting them out , pruning down the numbers, properly placing them in the categories they fit and coming out with the final nominees list.

The announcement was put out by the event’ s organizers .

They explained that members of the committee were chosen based on their track record of helping to promote and develop reggae and dancehall music in the country and in Africa .

Conspicuously missing from the list were Talent Manager and Chief Executive of Bullhaus Entertainment Lawrence Asiamah Hanson , popularly referred to as Bulldog and Rude Buoy Sterling , both who were part of last year ’ s committee.

Organisers also announced that musicians and record labels who had works released between January and December last year were encouraged to submit them for nominations this year .

Launched in 2013, BASS Awards is the first of its.kind and the future looks very bright as it touches on one of the most respected genre in the world.

It is an established fact that Reggae and Dancehall have made a tremendous impact among music lovers and the artistes themselves hardly get noticed or appreciated .

The name of the event was derived from Rhythms and BASS ( pronounced Base ) , which happens to be the basis for the reggae and dancehall genre .

The BASS Awards is jointly organised by Rackus Productions , Bullhaus Entertainment and Solid Multimedia .

This year ’ s event is under the theme ‘ Turn It Up ’ , obviously in reference to taking the Awards to the next level after its successful launch last year .

Nicki Minaj Calls Out ESPN Magazine Retouching

She's not happy with her cover look at all.

Nicki Minaj fronts the new music issue of ESPN magazine, along with basketball star Kobe Bryant. They both have snazzy shoes.

Footwear aside, though, Nicki is not happy with the cover at all. Despite saying she felt "honored" to be a part of the shoot with.Kobe, she described the final photo as "when retouching goes wrong." Specifically, she's not happy with her forehead's proportions, and accuses retouchers of post-production trickery:

A fivehead worked wonders for Tyra Banks though, so the retouching could be worse,much worse. Why, it could involve a FAKE PIGEON.

DJ Lady excited about her nomination for Ghana DJ Awards

Host of dynamic highly energetic, and celebrity studded syndicated show called “Hotwired ", DJ Lady NV, took to Twitter Monday to express her joy after being nominated in the International DJ Of the Year for the 2014 Ghana DJ Awards scheduled to hold at the National Theatre of Ghana on Saturday February 22. Lady NV took to twitter to say “Thank you DJ Awards for nominating me.
I’m truly honoured.

It couldn't be all possible for the entire great AfricanbDancehall artistes and my station YFM.

I’m truly humbled, and stunned.
OMG” Securing a deal with Madison Paarc Radio Networks in 2008, Lady NV is also the hosts of a highly energetic, and celebrity studded syndicated show called “Urban Vybz" worldwide to 2 million faithful listeners mainly in Africa and America.

Urban Vybz is a two hour mix show with Lady NV as your turntablist and DJ Mixing World African Music, Reggae, and Soca. Urban Vybz is all about spectacular weekends, with superstar guest, interactive live listeners participation incredible beat mixing of the biggest hits and the magical electricity of Natassja “Lady NV” Bynoe. She has featured top guests every weekend on the show including various African Artistes, 2 Face, Vybz Kartel, Movado, and many more.

In addition, Lady NV has toured over 28 cities on more than 3 continents as a DJ. She started the sound system the First Ladies, consisting Missy from the Mix Up which is a regular feature on the Weekday Fix on Slam 101.

They have also toured openeda, and closed for/and with Elephant Man, TOK, and many other artist.

Her nomination for the Ghana DJ Awards makes her the second female to make the International DJ of The Year category list since the inception of the awards.

Others in the category for this year are DJ Humility (Nigeria), Tim Westwood (UK), DJ Symon Chris (France), Danny Blakk (Cote Divoire) and DJ Divalash(South Africa).

Currently, she can be seen on Smile Time Africa with Darlington Smile which airs on GH1 Ghana on Saturday at 3:30PM Ghanaian time, and airs in Nigeria, South Africa and Texas.

Sponsored by DJ Drinks, Honda, Scratch Studios, BelAqua, RedBull, Ghana DJ Awards 2014 promises to be an exciting event with performances by some of the best DJs in the industry.

Source: Mercury Republic

I don’t like those artists that try to do HipHop - Appietus

Producer Appietus has an issue with the clamouring of the hip hop genre by some mainstream artistes of today.

“The only thing I don’t like about our music industry is those artists that try to do the Hip Hop; you can’t play or rhyme it in their accent better than producers and artists in America. It’s their culture and they live in it,” he’s told this website’s Adullai Isshak.

He also spoke on the challenges artistes are facing with getting decent numbers for album sales.

Full quotes below “The only thing I don’t like about our music industry is those artists that try to do the Hip Hop; you can’t play or rhyme it in their accent better than producers and artists in America. It’s their culture and they live in it.

They can’t play better Afro Beats than us and we can’t play better hip hop than them. .

Music is universal but it’s the language we put on the rhythm that make it Ghanaian, western or Asian music.”

“When you listen to music from any part of the world, it can stir a feeling within you. When Magic System’s “Premiere Gaou” hit Ghana, almost everyone who was crazy for the tune never understood what they said but never cared.

All they knew was that they had found some good dance music.”

On album sales “The mistake our artists make mostly is that, when they make an album they promote only two or three songs on the album and leave the rest of the songs on the album to mature into hits by themselves which is wrong.

So in the mind of the people, the best songs on the album are the ones you promoted and since not everyone is discerning when it comes to music, they are only going to judge the strength of the album based on the hits on it and it will go against you.”

“To make album, you have make hit singles and gather them onto the album. That’s how you will get a platinum album in the west. And if you have an album with several hits on it, people will be encouraged in getting the whole thing and not pirating just one or two songs off the whole album.

“You go to the best studios to record two good songs and the rest, you just let a struggling producer do cheap work for you, and you think it will not go against you in the end. It’s an album and so spending good money to make a good album goes a long way to boost your image as an artist because that is what people will use to judge you.”

Appietus’ Big Bang Compilation, which features acts like Sarkodie, Kwaw Kese, and Castro is out soon.

Source: Abdullai Ishaak-enewsgh.com

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