{"id":1099174,"date":"2022-05-25T16:03:20","date_gmt":"2022-05-25T16:03:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/05\/25\/vgma23-i-filed-for-the-artiste-of-the-year-nomination-but-i-was-ignored\/"},"modified":"2022-05-25T16:03:20","modified_gmt":"2022-05-25T16:03:20","slug":"vgma23-i-filed-for-the-artiste-of-the-year-nomination-but-i-was-ignored","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/05\/25\/vgma23-i-filed-for-the-artiste-of-the-year-nomination-but-i-was-ignored\/","title":{"rendered":"VGMA23: &#8216;I Filed For The Artiste Of The Year Nomination But I Was Ignored&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<h2 id=\"h-although-this-year-s-vodafone-ghana-music-awards-vgma-has-been-held-there-are-some-artistes-who-had-issues-with-the-organizers-and-one-of-such-people-is-tamale-based-musician-mujahid-ahmed-bello-who-is-widely-known-as-fancy-gadam\">Although this year\u2019s Vodafone Ghana  Awards (VGMA) has been held, there are some artistes who had issues with the organizers and one of such people is Tamale-based musician, Mujahid Ahmed Bello who is widely known as Fancy Gadam.<\/h2>\n<p>According to him, he was looking forward to getting nominated for the Artiste of the Year category, however, that did not materialize as he was ignored.<\/p>\n<h4>READ ALSO: Efia Odo Calls Out Nana Addo, Asks Him To Create Solutions That Will Tackle The Problems Ghana Is Facing<\/h4>\n<p>He made this known as he shared his grievances on the popular Ghanaian radio station, Hitz FM, and in his submission, he said;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI filed for the Artiste of the Year nomination. I believe I deserve to be nominated. It shouldn\u2019t be about Accra. In the North, we are also part of Ghana. There are songs that are big in Accra but not known in the North.<\/p>\n<p>I strongly believe Sarkodie\u2019s influence contributed to the success of \u2018Total Cheat\u2019. I hosted about three shows last year.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The prestigious awards show was held on May 6 and 7. Several popular musicians bagged some awards and the ultimate award for the night, Artiste of the Year, was won by young Ghanaian musician, Dennis Nana Dwamena who is known in showbiz as KiDi.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async defer crossorigin=\"anonymous\" src=\"https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js#xfbml=1&#038;version=v13.0&#038;appId=1009694476028322&#038;autoLogAppEvents=1\" type=\"2afe8bcd2d466e884a177328-text\/javascript\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Although this year\u2019s Vodafone Ghana Awards (VGMA) has been held, there are some artistes who had issues with the organizers and one of such people is Tamale-based musician, Mujahid Ahmed Bello who is widely known as Fancy Gadam. According to him, he was looking forward to getting nominated for the Artiste of the Year category, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1099177,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[151,10001,12745,9536,293],"class_list":["post-1099174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-artiste","tag-filed","tag-nomination","tag-vgma23","tag-year"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1099174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1099174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1099174\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1099174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1099174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1099174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}