{"id":26446,"date":"2013-02-13T08:36:43","date_gmt":"2013-02-13T08:36:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2013\/02\/vgma-categorization-under-way\/"},"modified":"2013-02-13T08:36:43","modified_gmt":"2013-02-13T08:36:43","slug":"vgma-categorization-under-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/02\/13\/vgma-categorization-under-way\/","title":{"rendered":"VGMA categorization under way"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Entertainment of Wednesday, 13 February 2013<\/p>\n

Source:<\/strong> GhanaWeb<\/p>\n

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\"Sarkodiesakodie\"<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Preparations towards the 14th edition of the prestigious Vodafone Ghana Music Awards have kicked off earnestly, as Mrs. Theresa Ayoade, Executive Director of Charterhouse Productions the organizers of the event shared with us \u201cthe Board has been in place since January 2013 and has been working on shortlisting, categorizing and verifying the various entries. It\u2019s been a very challenging process and gives us a fair idea of how the industry has fared over the past year, the emerging trends in the music industry and so on\u201d.<\/p>\n

Reports from the VGMA Board Room indicate that some categories such as Highlife and Reggae\/Ragga are starving of entries whiles others such as Hiplife are oversubscribed with very strong competition in the \u201cCollaboration of the Year\u201d.<\/p>\n

The Hip hop and Afro Pop categories have seen a fair amount of impactful entries but the surprising discovery of all is the Gospel Category which in previous editions has been very competitive but hasn\u2019t seen much impactful activity this year. The question thus arises: Is Gospel Music, the leading genre in times past, suffering?<\/p>\n

The full nomination list will be announced at the event launch slated for February 23rd. This year\u2019s event, being the 2nd year of the new partnership with Vodafone promises to build on the giant strides taken last year to propel the industry to THE NEXT LEVEL \u2013 which is the theme for this year.<\/p>\n

The VGMA is produced by events powerhouse \u2013 Charterhouse with support from Golden Tulip Hotel and sponsored by Vodafone.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Entertainment of Wednesday, 13 February 2013 Source: GhanaWeb Preparations towards the 14th edition of the prestigious Vodafone Ghana Music Awards have kicked off earnestly, as Mrs. Theresa Ayoade, Executive Director of Charterhouse Productions the organizers of the event shared with us \u201cthe Board has been in place since January 2013 and has been working on shortlisting, categorizing and verifying the various entries…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26446","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26446"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26446\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}