November 19 2008:
Joseph Haule popularly known as Profesa Jay, will be jetting into Abuja , Nigeria on November 20 to perform at the first ever MTV Africa Music Awards with Zain (MAMA).
Joining Prof Jay on stage will be rappers The Game and Lil Wayne from USA, HHP South Africa and 9Ice from Nigeria. All the five will be performing in the Hip Hop category.
The MTV Africa Music Awards with Zain (MAMA) is a new MTV awards show designed as Africa’s biggest celebration of contemporary music and youth culture.
The MTV Africa Music Awards with Zain offers an unprecedented global platform for African musicians to shine, and to spread the word about Africa’s extraordinary music talent.
The MTV Africa Music Awards with Zain reflects and represents the tastes of Africa’s young music fans – the audience of MTV base, the most widely distributed music TV channel on the continent with 50 million plus viewers.
The MTV Africa Music Awards with Zain celebrates contemporary African music genres and international music genres young Africans love, from R&B to Pop, Rock, Alternative, Gospel, Hip-hop, Rumba, Soul, Electro, Funk, Afro Dance, Dance, Dancehall, Kwaito, Kuduru, Reggae, Afro Pop, Afro Beat, Ndombolo and Zouk.
The MTV Africa Music Awards with Zain is designed to uplift Africa’s contemporary music talent both inside Africa and beyond the continent’s borders. The TV show of the Awards will air across sub-Saharan Africa on DStv, on MTV terrestrial TV platforms in Nigeria, Ghana, Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania and on multiple MTV networks around the world including the USA.
The nominations for the inaugural pan-African music awards ceremony were revealed at a VIP soirée at Planet One, Lagos, Nigeria by Alex Okosi, Senior Vice President and Managing Director, MTV Networks Africa and Norman Moyo, Chief Marketing Officer, Zain Nigeria, in the presence of nominees
D’Banj, Wahu, DJ Cleo and Naeto C.
Selected by an independent voting ‘academy’ of 150 music professionals and opinion formers from 30 countries in sub-Saharan Africa, the nominations for the MTV Africa Music Awards with Zain showcase the wealth of musical talent that Africa has to offer, and provide the ultimate vehicle for young Africans to salute the African and international artists that rock their worlds.
Heading the nominee list with 5 ‘nods’ from the MAMA nominations academy are Nigerian R&B duo P-Square (Best Group, Best Live Performer, Best R&B, Best Video and Artist of the Year), closely followed by triple nominees D’Banj (Nigeria) and HHP (South Africa), who go head-to-head in the Best Male and Artist of the Year categories. Wahu (Kenya) and Asa (Nigeria) share the honours as the most nominated female artists with two nominations each for Wahu (Best New Act, Best Female) and Asa (Best Female, Artist of the Year).
Topping the country roll of honour with 18 individual nominations is South Africa, closely followed by Nigeria (16 nominations). Kenyan artists scored three nominations: Jua Cali for Best Male and Wahu for Best New Act & Best Female. Ghanaian artists were recognised in two categories: Best Live Performance (Samini) and Best New Act (Kwaw Kese), while Mozambique, Gabon, Tanzania and Uganda all scored one nominee with recognition for Professor Jay (Tanzania), East Africa Bashment Crew (Uganda), Movaizhaleine (Gabon) and Dama do Bling (Mozambique).
US, and European artists are represented in three categories with nods to Akon, Rihanna and Alicia Keys for Best R&B, while rappers The Game and Lil Wayne both feature in Best Hip Hop. Prominent in the Best Alternative category are British rockers Coldplay, competing against, Buraka Som Sistema (Portugal) and a trio of South African contenders: Goldfish, The Parlotones and Seether.
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