Newly crowned Ghana Music Artiste of the Year, Elom Adablah, known in showbiz as EL, says he will not allow the hype associated with the award to distract him but spur him on to achieve more success.

"I’m not for the hype or unnecessary noise making but I’m for making music for people to enjoy all around the world and that’s what I represent. We are going back to the studios to make more music because that is what we represent,” he said.

The award-winning Ghanaian record producer cum rapper emerged as the favourite when he won the five awards, including the Artiste of the Year, at the 17th edition of the Vodafone Ghana Music Awards last Saturday.

He beat stiff competition from his contemporaries Sarkodie, Stonebwoy, Bisa Kdei, VVIP and SP Kofi Sarpong to win the ultimate award.

He told TV3's Mark Tetteh after the event that he has always longed for the prestigious award at the start of my music career, noting "I'm literally out of words and out of breath because this is something I have always wanted"