GMA holds forum on music marketing trend

2010-04-02 16:53

As part of the Ghana Music Awards festival, an open forum was held on April 1 for stakeholders to discusse efficient ways to utilize new trends in music marketing. The forum which was instituted in 2009, discussed the issue of musicians paying for airtime in the first year and according ...

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WAPI series to end with “I Rep Africa”

2010-04-02 07:15

The WaPi (Words and Pictures) series, a free event organized by the British Council for any sort of visual or verbal artistes to showcase their art, will soon come to an end with a grand festival at British Council HQ, Accra. The “I Rep Africa” themed festival will be ...

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Cwasi Oteng’s Mercy Project Hits Tema Th

2010-03-30 18:13

The famous harbour city of Ghana; Tema, this Easter will arguably host the biggest gospel concert so far this year. The concert, dubbed ‘Cwasi Oteng’s Mercy Project Concert’, is a live recording concert of Cwasi Oteng’s new album, ‘The Mercy Project’ and will feature the notable greats of contemporary Ghanaian ...

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Coptic produces track for Memphis Bleek

2010-03-29 12:20

US-based Ghanaian music producer, Coptic continues to work his magic and rapper Memphis Bleek is one of the latest artists to work with the talented beat maker. Coptic’s well crafted production on the title track, ‘The Process’, sets the tone for the rejuvenated rapper to reintroduce his aggressive flow to ...

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‘I Sing of a Well’ to be released in blo

2010-03-28 19:01

The movie, ‘I Sing of a Well’ continues to enjoy critical acclaim including topping the upcoming African Movie Academy Awards (AMAA) with 11 nominations but the conflict between co-producers, Leila Djansi and Akorfa Edjeani Asiedu seems to be affecting the commercialization of the film. There have been a media battle ...

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An Open letter to the Ghana Music Awards

2010-03-26 13:11

Dear Ghana Music Awards Cc: Charter House, MUSIGA I must say I was saddened when I read an article about how Charter House might have gifted highlife singer, Kwaisey Pee with the Ghana Music Award for Best Male Vocalist in 2008 as his reward for writing a song for Irene and Jane, ...

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Tales from the screening rooms

2010-03-25 06:56

I recently had the opportunity to attend the press screening of three very different upcoming Ghanaian movies. While the storylines in these movies obviously varied, they equally had varying strengths and weakness, which made me enjoy some more than the others. Clearly with Shirley Frimpong-Manso’s fast growing pedigree in film ...

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Celebrity Sightings: The New Kardashians

2010-03-24 05:55

It was a delightful girls’ day out for the gorgeous Ama K Abebrese, Jackie Appiah and Menaye Donkor at their new favourite bistro and cocktail bar, Crave( Labone, Adjacent the SIC Training Centre) but ended up as a rare celebrity sighting when they came under my ever watchful radar. There ...

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14 selected for Face of Black's Secret

2010-03-22 18:03

The search for the ‘Face of Black’s Secret’ make-up range took an exciting turn last Saturday, March 20, when 14 finalists were selected for the grand finale slated for April 25. After combing through hundreds of applications from all over the country in several pre-selection processes, over 40 beautiful young ...

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Kwaisey Pee exposes Charter House

2010-03-22 16:10

Contemporary highlife singer, Kwaisey Pee has a taken a bold decision to say that the award he won for ‘Best Male Vocal Performance’ at 2007 Ghana Music Awards was more of a gift. Now Kwaisey Pee is raging with anger with Ghana Music Awards and wants his fellow musicians to crusade ...

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