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Entertainment of Tuesday, 1 March 2011<\/p>\n

Source: <\/strong>Eugene Osafo-Nkansah\/Peacefmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n

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Another edition of the most prestigious musical event in Ghana has been officially launched and as usual it is already receiving some criticisms from some musicians who feel sidelined for not getting a single nomination.<\/p>\n

The Ghana Music Awards Festival was launched at the Golden Tulip Hotel on Friday February 25, 2011.<\/p>\n

The \u201cSwagger\u201d boys Ricci Nana Agyeman aka Bullet (Ruff) and Clement Baah Foh aka Akan (Smooth) known together as “Ruff & Smooth” are one of the first to raise red flags over the nominations. The Duo is alarmed as to why even a single track from their very strong album could not attract nomination for this year\u2019s awards.<\/p>\n

Speaking on Peace FM\u2019s \u201cEntertainment Review\u201d program, Akan (Smooth) registered their displeasure at the turn of events. According to him their fans on facebook and others mediums on the internet got very upset and began asking why they were not nominated for this year\u2019s GMA, even though he had not seen the nomination list himself. True to their fans\u2019 cry, he said, their name was not on the list when he checked.<\/p>\n

\u201cI feel that Ruff and Smooth as artiste have made a lot of impact since we released this album and looking at what we have been able to achieve personally, I think we deserve to be nominated in several categories. Awards are supposed to boost, motivate and make you feel that your work has been recognized. But we feel our efforts have been downplayed by the organizers and I don\u2019t know why that happened,\u201d he explained.<\/p>\n

He further stated that their songs received appreciable raves on the outside world because they won awards in Nigeria and other African countries and also performed in South Africa on Big Brother Africa (All Stars) Season 5, so they cannot understand why they have been sidelined.<\/p>\n

Asked whether their album falls within the calendar year (December 2009-November 2010), Akan said their popular hit song \u201cSwagger\u201d was nominated in last year\u2019s awards as a single because their album had not been released by then.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe full album was released at the beginning of 2010 which means that we qualify. Even if they decide to take \u201cSwagger\u201d out because it was nominated last year, there are other hit songs like \u201cSex Machine\u201d, \u201cAzingele\u201d, \u201cMonalisa\u201d and reggae song \u201cTime Changes\u201d on the album. Unless the Ghana Music Awards organizers are saying none of these songs is popular…I think they have not been fair to us at all,\u201d he concluded.<\/p>\n

Reacting to this, Juno Abena Turkson, Public Relations Officer for Charter House said \u201cIndeed Ruff and Smooth\u2019s album came up for consideration this year but what happened is that most of the songs we found on the album were songs released for last year\u2019s awards scheme.<\/p>\n

So we couldn\u2019t nominate it as individual songs for this year because they were nominated last year. It was the album which qualified but it is the same songs which were listed for last year out of which \u201cSwagger\u201d was nominated last year. That is why Ruff and Smooth couldn\u2019t make it this year,\u201d Juno explained.<\/p>\n

However, Ruff and Smooth say Juno\u2019s explanation does not hold because a single by R2Bees \u201cI Dey Mad\u201d was nominated in previous awards and a song titled \u201cKiss Your Hand\u201d from the same album has been nominated this year.<\/p>\n

They further added that Samini\u2019s \u201cTrigga\u201d was nominated last year and the same song and even other songs like \u201cSweet Mistake\u201d have been nominated this year, from the same album.<\/p>\n

According to the duo, they had a call from a Charter House representative to submit their album for consideration for this year\u2019s award, “so if they knew they were not going to nominate us, why then did they call us to submit our work?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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