The Ghana Music Awards Festival 2011 has kick started in earnest. The eligibility period (final day of the submission) closed on Friday the 14 of January 2011.
Though the nominations will not be announced unless it has been categorized to its final nominations, GhanaCelebrities.com has come up with our predicted nominations for the various categories.
In this year’s awards, all musical works produced and or released from December 1, 2009 – November 30, 2010 were presented to the GMA Academy for consideration.
As an industry player, what I have below is exactly what I filled in the Nominations Form (You can only disagree).
Accusations and counter accusations, backbiting, insults and misunderstanding have always characterized the awards. For these same reasons, I see this year as no different.
The categorization process will always be with problems. Musicians are confused as to what type of genre of music they do. Others also have problems as when and how they release their albums.
VIP and Sarkodie opted out of the awards a year and two years ago respectively because they claimed they had not officially released their various albums though some of their singles were released on Ring Back Tunes (RBT),an acceptable form of release under the GMA. So I won’t be surprised if some artistes opt out of this year’s award citing the same reasons above.
Don’t forget that the Public Categories of the Ghana Music Award is largely popularity based implying therefore that a song or artistes will only find its way into the final Nomination list if it widely known and enjoyed by a large portion of music lovers across the country.
Mind you, we are not saying this list is what will be used for this year’s awards, the actual list will not be this long and the names will be trimmed down further.
Below is our list of nominations for the various categories. If you disagree, let’s see your list also…
1. Hip Hop Song of the Year
- Intoxicated – Richie
- Get On The Dance Floor – DBlack
- No More Kpayor – Asem
- Somebody – DBlack
- My Life – Trigmatic
- Meawozo – 2 Toff
- Yaaro – Richie
2. Gospel Song of the Year
- Efunumu Ba – Cecilia Marfo
- Halleluiah – Cee, Isaac And Ampong
- Mma Mma – Florence Obinim/Princess Ofeoma
3. Reggae Song of the Year
- Valentine – Morris D’Voice
- Thanks And Praise – Iwan
- Who’s Bad – Iwan
- Trigger – Samini
- African Reggae Fever – Rocky Dawuni
4. Best Rapper of the Year
- Okyeame Kwame
- Captain Planet (4×4)
- Asem
- Guru
- Promzy (VIP)
- Paedae (R2Bees)
- Red Eye (2 Toff)
- Asamoah Gyan
- DBlack
5. Best Male Vocal Performance (Solo/Group)
- Morris D’Voice
- Iwan
- Jay Ghartey
- Adane Best
- Fresh Prince (4X4)
- Muggees (R2bees)
- SK Blinks
- Trigmatic
- Fritz
- Rocky Dawuni
6. Best Female Vocal Performance (Solo/Group)
- Cecilia Marfo
- Florence Obinim
- Cee
- Bertha
- Celestine Donkor
7. African Artiste(s) Of the Year
- Bebe Sumthing
- Wande Coal
- Jimmy Black
- P-Square
- Banky W
- MI
8. Hip Life Song of the Year
- Away – VIP
- African Girls – Castro
- Aha Yede – Nana Boroo
- Wo Bekumi – Dr. Cryme
- Ghana Lady – Mframa
- Sweet Mistake – Samini
- Where The Money Go Dey – Obour
- Azingele – Rough N Smooth
9. High Life Song of the Year
- Forever – Becca
- Dzata Bi – Adane Best
- Meda Enda – Bless
10. Instrumentalist of the Year
- Nacy
- Richie
- Appietus
11. Most Popular Song of the Year
- Away – VIP
- No More Kpayor – Asem
- I Think I Like Am – VIP
- African Girls – Castro
- Efunumu Ba – Cecilia Marfo
- Halleluiah – Cee/Isaac/Ampong
- Wengeze – Eazzy
- My Lady – Jay Ghartey
- Thanks & Praise – Iwan
- Forever – Becca
- Sweet Mistake – Samini
- My Life – Trigmatic
- Miss Doctor – 4X4
- Aha Yede – Nana Boroo
12. Afro-Pop Song of the Year
- I Think I Like Am – VIP
- My Lady – Jay Ghartey
- Lagos To Vienna – KNii Lante
13. Artiste(s) of the Year
- VIP
- Asem
- Nana Boroo
- Castro
- Iwan
- Amakye Dede
- Becca
- Eazzy
- Trigmatic
- Tinny
- Cecilia Marfo
- No Tribe
14. Hip Life/Hip Hop Artiste(s) of the Year
- VIP
- Asem
- Ayigbe Edem
- Castro
- Nana Boroo
- Eazzy
- DBlack
- R2Bees
- Trigmatic
- 2 Toff
- Richie
15. High Life Artiste(s) of the Year
- Becca
- Amakye Dede
- Adane Best
- Bless
- Gyedu Blay Ambolley
16. Gospel Artiste(s) of the Year
- Cecilia Marfo
- No Tribe
- Cee/Isaac/Ampong
- Florence Obinim
17. Discovery of the Year
- Morris D’Voice
- Iwan
- Jay Ghartey
- DBlack
- Nana Boroo
- Eazzy
- Akoo Nana
- Dr. Cryme
- Trigmatic
18. Best Collaboration of the Year
- Valentine – Morris D’Voice/Okyeame Kwame
- African Girls – Castro/Asamoah Gyan
- Aha Yede – Nana Boroo/SK Blinks
- Meda Enda – Bless/Okyeame Kwame
- Somebody – DBlack/Kwabena Kwabena
- Get On Da Dance Floor – DBlack/Dr. Cryme
- Kiss Your Hand – R2bees/Wande Coal
- Intoxicated – Richie/Sway
- Tempo – Samini/Muggees
- Trigger – Samini/Ghetto KB
- Shokoli – Echo/Iwan
19. Album of the Year
- Home & Away – Morris D’Voice
- Progress – VIP
- Twinkle – Eazzy
- My Time – Iwan
- C.E.O – Samini
- U.K.N.R. – Richie
- Music, Love & Life – DBlack
- Permanent Stains – Trigmatic
- Reggiestration – Reggie Rockstone
20. Producer of the Year
- Richie – Lynx Entertainment
- One Mic Entertainment
- Paradise Entertainment
- Bullhaus Entertainment
- Samini Music
- King Bling
- Black Avenue Muzik
- Kanpke Records
22. Record of the Year
- Shame On You – Morris D’Voice
- Valentine – Morris D’Voice
- My Lady – Jay Ghartey
- Yaaro – Richie
23. Best Music Video of the Year
- Valentine – Morris D’Voice
- I Think I Like Am – VIP
- Aha Yede – Nana Boroo
- Wengeze – Eazzy
- Yaayi – VIP
- Get On Da Dance Floor – DBlack
- Somebody – DBlack
- Intoxicated – Richie
- My Life – Trigmatic
- Sweet Mistake – Samini
24. Song Writer of the Year
- Shame On You – Okyeame Kwame
- Somebody – DBlack
- My Life – Trigmatic
- My Lady – Jay Ghartey
- Valentine – Morris D’Voice
By Ebenezer Anangfio Jnr./Ghanacelebrities.Com/Ghana
kuul-aa…………………..well am thinking ..best rapper? asamoah ghyan? man!!! get real
wat happen to the best of all time Ernest Opoku Jr
How is Valentine by Morris D’Voice a reggae song and Gyan who just came with once song being in catagorie of best rapper ( M’abo kakra ) nomination is so foolish The people that have Been making the nominations had probably too much Abεnkwan, Mepa wo kyεw change it
Ooo i thought de author said dis’s not de real nomination but jst a prediction on wht mite happen.Save all uur words for de real nomination u can unlesh them when things go wrong which i kno it will.
waao this is tight ,but i want okyame kwame to win song write of the year with shame on u lol i love that song alot.
D-black topped the list! Nice one.well deserved. Yes boss
u forgot Richie for Male vocal performance and artist of the year !!! and 4X4 Miss Doctor for afro pop song of the year
Yeand DBlack for Artist of the year is not there.oh this is not the actual nomination, just predictions.
I know dis is jus a prediction but y is it dat d african artist of d year is always outside ghana,mainly nigerians..r we, d ghanaians not africans anymore? Any xplanation 4 dat?
WENGEZEE,AHA YE DE OR AFRICAN GIRLS 4 MOST POPULAR SONG OF THE YEAR (I.E WHEN THE REAL ONE COMES OUT)
Ben you are baiased towards guys why, where is killbeatz? and the tema guys?
why is tnny not in the list dont fuck up boy
d-black and v.i.p yaayyy!
nonsense asamoah gyan 4 best rapper??how can u b nominated 4 sayin ladies’ names in a song??if he wins,den he probably bribed dem..
nice nominees it will be very tight for this years awards but why is Ernest opuku jnr excluded?i really love his music.
where are my boys too?five five move back
dat is crazy.how can asem,paydae and asamoah be nominated for best rapper of the year and most annoying asem been nominated for artiste of the year.if no ammendment are made this will bring controversies.
where is kill beatz,kiss ur hand was one of the most popular songs of the year and should even be among the songs of the year.r2bees album was tight.i think.if this is the official list then i reserve my comments.raaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah.
ok ghana celebrities i think u guys havent done ur homework kraaa especially with the producer of the year awards its becoming one way the guy behind majority of the hitz in ghana is not getting recognised Killbeatz what a shame ghanaians cannot appreciate huge brilliant talent yet when we hit the clubs its hes goodies getting played sorry mate perhaps next time you guys will write a better article because its becoming one way no disrespect jus my opinion thanks
killbeatz allll day where my TM peeps dey i rep all day raaaaaaahhhhh
@ adjoa Killbeatz and nii from Accra are not even in the list damnzz this is bogus by the way where are you staying you seems to enjoy clubbing down there
where be tema boys.tema boys are the real musicians opanka,yaa pono ,sarkodier and guruu. the commettee is corrupt
chaley,asamoah gyan! man let get serious
I don’t understand why Ernest Opoku is always not nominated in the awards? Is it because he doesn’t like it or the board who doesn’t nominates him.