Kumi Guitar is a High-Life musician born Nana Yaw Kumi has also have his own take about the dancehall’s ban.
Late yesterday, Organisers of the Vodafone Ghana Music Awards, Charterhouse, have nullified the Artiste of the Year and Song of the Year award categories for 2019 thus making Ebony still Artiste of the Year.
The Board of the awards scheme at a press conference at the Alisa Hotel in Accra Thursday, revealed the results of the most anticipated categories will not be released and hence does not exist in this year’s scheme.
The chairman of the VGMA Board, Amandzeba, stated, “unfortunately we do not have ‘Song of the Year’ or ‘Artiste of the Year’ which to our interpretations means Ebony is still ‘Artiste of the Year.”
The decision of the VGMA board comes after the camps of dancehall artistes Shatta Wale and Stonebwoy got into a fight on the stage when the latter was announced Reggae/Dancehall Artiste of the Year.
The two categories annulled were tipped to go to Shatta Wale and Stonebwoy.
Mark Okraku Mantey, a member of the Board, stated they hold the right to “dismiss, disqualify or ban any artiste who abuses the scheme, the board or any of its members with or without any just course or put the brand into any kind of disrepute.”
Also, Shatta Wale and Stonebwoy have been stripped off all the awards won on the night and banned indefinitely.
The decision means that Shatta Wale is no longer the winner of the ‘Highlife Song of the Year’ for ‘My Level’ and ‘Reggae/Dancehall Song of the Year’ for ‘Gringo’.
It also means that Stonebwoy has also lost the ‘Reggae/Dancehall Artiste of the Year’ and ‘Best Collaboration of the Year’ awards he won on the night.
With that, the Betweener hit maker, Kumi Guitar thinks the decision is too hash for them because both of them contribute to the music industry and to that effect, they help those with less fan base to also build theirs and he suggest they review their decisions of banning shatta wale and Stonebwoy concerning the Saturday night brawl
This is what Kumi Guitar said:
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Source: Ghanawish Radio | Spain/ U.K
