BIG MONEY FOR MUSICIAN

The winner of the topmost award –the Artiste of the year-at this year’s Ghana Music Awards (GMA)gets a whopping GHC5000 cash prize, the organizers have announced.
Additionally, the recipient of the MTN/GMA Lifetime Achievement Award, which is an honory award that celebrates the contribution of veterans to the music industry, will get a GHC 2000.
Similarly, the world Bank-sponsored Music for Development attracts an overall package of GHC 5000 cash, in which GHC 3000 of the amount goes to the winner with GHC 500 each to other nominees in the category.
Theresa Ayaode, the chief Executive of Charter House, the organizer announced these last week Friday at the Golden Tulip Hotel in Accra, where the nominees for this year’s awards were unveiled.
The climax of the awards is slated for the Accra International Conference Centre (Dome) on April 9, this year , and is expected to be attended by musicians from around the globe.
Spectator Agoro presents below, the list of nominees for this year’s awards.
Artiste(s) of the year
No tibe
Cecilia Marfo
Samini
Castro
VIP
Kwabena Kwabena
Most Popular song of the year
Kiss your Hand R2Bees
African Girls Castro
Away VIP
Afunumu Ba Cecilia Marfo
Wengeze Eazzy
Bohye No Tribe
Eha ye de Nana Boro
Discovery of the year
Jay Ghartey
Eazzy
Iwan
Nana Boro Trigmatic
Herty Bongreat
Bless
Hip Hop Song of the Year
Get on the dance floor D-Black
My Life Trigmatic
Intoxicated by Richie
Bo wonsam ma me Eazzy
No more Kpayor Asem
Guns and Roses J-Town
Hiplife Song of the year
Away VIP
African Girls Castro
Mugu Akoo Nana
Eha ye de Nana Boro
Female friend Reggie Rockstone
Democracy Guru
Hip Life/Hip hop Artiste(s)of the year
D-Black
Eazzy
VIP
Trigmatic
Castro
R2Bees
Gospel song of the year
Odo Ben ni Herty Bongreat
Bohye No Tribe
Nhyira Ba Ceccy Twum
God never fails Florence Obinim &Princess Ifeoma
Onyame Di hene Ernest Opoku
Halleluyah Cee
Gospel Artiste(s) of the year
Herty Bongreat
No Tribe
Ernest Opoku
Cee
Florence Obinim
Cecilia Marfo
High l life Song of the year
Dzata Bi Adane Best
Meda Enda Bless
DDadea Anoma Kwabena Kwabena
Anadwo y idea Daddy Lumba
Yaa Amponsah Unit Cash
Megye Apem Daasebre Gyamena
Highlife Artiste(s) of the year
Daddy Lumba
Kwabena Kwabena
Adane Best
Bless
Afro-Pop song of the year
My lady Jay Ghartey
Kiss your Hand R2Bees
Move Back 5five
Sweet Mistake Samini
Wengeze Eazzy
Miss Doctor 4x4