{"id":275047,"date":"2011-01-28T10:15:11","date_gmt":"2011-01-28T10:15:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/?p=49911"},"modified":"2011-01-28T10:15:11","modified_gmt":"2011-01-28T10:15:11","slug":"ghana-music-awards-categorisation-committee-meet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/01\/28\/ghana-music-awards-categorisation-committee-meet\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana Music Awards Categorisation Committee Meet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_35179\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-35179\" style=\"width: 276px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-35179\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2010\/11\/17\/ghana-movie-awards-receives-96-entries\/ghana-movie-awards\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-35179\" title=\"Ghana Movie Awards\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Ghana-Movie-Awards.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"276\" height=\"270\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-35179\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ghana Movie Awards night will take place on December 25 at the Accra International Conference Centre<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nACTIVITIES leading up to the 2011  Ghana Music Awards Festival (GMA) are well under way with the successful  completion of the brainstorming and Categorisation Committee meeting.<br \/>\nThe  meeting, which was held at the British Council Hall, witnessed  highly-spirited discussions between some notable members of the growing  entertainment industry in Ghana who had valuable opinions to share on  the GMA.<br \/>\nThe highly energetic meeting was attended by big names  in the industry  like Panji Anoff, Nana Kwaku Osei (Nacy), Appietus,  Ahmed Banda (Bandex), Akuba Quarmine of GTV, K.K Kabobo, David Kyei  (Kaywa), Fifi Folson, Ernest Kwesi Ennin, Dj Mensa and Nana Kwame O.  Sarpong, among many others.<br \/>\nThe Planning Committee of the GMA was  also in full attendance while Rev. Micheal Ohene-Okantah of the  University of Education, Winneba, represented the school of music where  so many musical talents are nursed yearly.<br \/>\nThe agenda for the  discussion was simple; to discuss the developments in the music industry  over the last year with reference to the awards, examine the awards  categories and finally categorize the entries into the various  categories.<br \/>\nThis agenda engaged the professionals from about  11am, when the meeting began, till about 3pm when the committee finally  moved to have lunch and to continue further discussions in close  quarters. As part of the discussion, some new categories were suggested.<br \/>\nNotable  among the suggestions were The Best Performer of the Year, Best  Ghanaian Artiste in the Diaspora and the Engineer of the Year.<br \/>\nOne  conclusion that was drawn was that although all the members of the  various committees of the GMA were drawn from the industry itself, it  was the only way to ensure the scheme worked well.<br \/>\nThe data  collected from the categorizations processes will be compiled and  presented to the Planning Committee when it meets to discuss the  processes so far and begins to work on cutting down the nominees to  size.<br \/>\nIt is important to note that one of the Planning  Committee\u2019s main responsibilities is to complete categorization of the  public categories, which are mainly based on popularity such as the song  categories, the artiste categories and the album categories.<br \/>\nThis  committee also generates and vets the entries into the industry  categories which are not based so much on popularity, such as the  Instrumentalist, Record of the Year, Male and Female Vocal performance  and Producer of the Year, etc.<br \/>\nThe current list of categories in  the GMA 2011 scheme are: Public Category- Artiste of the Year,  Hiplife\/Hip-Hop Artiste of the Year , Highlife Artiste of the Year ,  Gospel Artiste of the Year, Discovery of the Year, Best Collaboration of  the year, African Artiste of the Year, Hiplife Song of the Year,  Highlife Song of the Year , Most Popular Song of the Year, Afro-Pop Song  of the Year, Hip-Hop Song of the Year, Gospel Song of the year, Reggae  Song of the Year, Best Rapper of the year.<br \/>\nThe Industry  categories are: Album of the Year, Best Male vocal performance  (Solo\/Group), Female vocal performance (Solo\/Group), Best Music Video of  the Year, Songwriter of the Year, Record Label of the Year, Producer of  the Year, Traditional Artiste of the Year, Record of the Year,  Instrumentalist of the Year and MUSIGA Merit of the Year.<br \/>\nMeanwhile,  a special call is being sent out for entries into the Music For  Development category, which is being sponsored by the World Bank.<br \/>\nAll  entries for this category must reach Charterhouse before February 7 to  allow the committee ample time to work on the entries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ACTIVITIES leading up to the 2011 Ghana Music Awards Festival (GMA) are well under way with the successful completion of the brainstorming and Categorisation Committee meeting. 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