{"id":64734,"date":"2023-05-07T16:10:39","date_gmt":"2023-05-07T16:10:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/05\/07\/black-sherif-wins-artiste-of-the-year-at-2023-vgma\/"},"modified":"2023-05-07T16:10:39","modified_gmt":"2023-05-07T16:10:39","slug":"black-sherif-wins-artiste-of-the-year-at-2023-vgma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/05\/07\/black-sherif-wins-artiste-of-the-year-at-2023-vgma\/","title":{"rendered":"Black Sherif Wins &#8216;Artiste Of The Year&#8217; At 2023 VGMA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>\u201cKweku the Traveler\u201d hit maker, Black Sherif was adjudged the overall Artiste of the Year at the 2023 edition of Vodafone Ghana  Awards (VGMA).<\/p>\n<p>He beat the likes of Sarkodie, Stonebwoy, Camidoh, Esther Piesie, KiDi and King Promise to win the award in the early hours of Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>The 24th edition of the VGMA was held at the Grand Arena of the Accra International Conference Center (AICC) on Saturday night.<\/p>\n<p>This year\u2019s event saw performances from the likes of Piesie Esther, KiDi, DSL, Epixode, Lasmid, King Promise, Gyakie, Sarkodie, Pheelz and others.<\/p>\n<p>It was also attended by several showbiz personalities.<\/p>\n<p>Several other artistes also picked different awards aside from Black Sherif. Esther Piesie also won Best Gospel Artiste of The Year and Gospel Song of The Year respectively.<\/p>\n<p>Below is the full list of VGMA 2023 winners :<br \/>Best  Video of the Year \u2013 Konongo Zongo (Black Sherif)<br \/>Songwriter of the Year \u2013 Perez music (Hewale lala)<br \/>Unsung Act of the Year \u2013 DSL<br \/>Best Female Vocal Performance of the Year \u2013 Niella<br \/>Best Male Vocal Performance of the Year \u2013 Perez <br \/>Vodafone Green Award \u2013 Worlasi<br \/>Producer of the Year \u2013 MOG Beatz<br \/>Best African Artiste of the Year \u2013 Asake<br \/>Lifetime Achievement Award \u2013 Kofi Sammy<br \/>Best Gospel Song of the Year \u2013 Piesie Esther<br \/>Best Gospel Artiste of the Year \u2013 Piesie Esther<br \/>Best Hip Hop Song of the Year \u2013 Black Sherif (Kweku The Traveller)<br \/>Best Hiphop\/HipLife Artiste of the Year \u2013 Sarkodie<br \/>Best International Collaboration of the Year \u2013 Camidoh ft King Promise, Mayorkun and Darkoo (Sugarcane remix)<br \/>Best Hiplife Song of the Year \u2013 Lasmid (Friday Night)<br \/>Best Afropop Song of the Year \u2013 Therapy (Stonebwoy)<br \/>Best Reggae and Dancehall Song of the Year \u2013 Atia (Epixode)<br \/>Best Highlife Artiste of the Year \u2013 Kofi Kinaata<br \/>Best Reggae\/Dancehall Artiste of the Year \u2013 Stonebwoy<br \/>Best Afropop\/Afrobeats Artiste of the Year \u2013 King Promise<br \/>Best Rap Performance \u2013 Obiaa Boa (Amerado)<br \/>Best Highlife Song of the Year \u2013 Downflat (Kevinbwoy)<br \/>Best Afrobeat Song of the Year \u2013 Camidoh ft King Promise, Mayorkun and Darkoo (Sugarcane remix)<br \/>Best Collaboration of the Year \u2013 Sarkodie Ft Black Sherif (Countryside)<br \/>Record\/Audio Engineer of the Year \u2013 Far Away (Gyakie)\/(Altra Nova)<br \/>Best New Artiste of the Year \u2013 Lasmid<br \/>Album\/EP of the Year \u2013 5 Star (King Promise)<br \/>Most Popular Song of the Year \u2013 Black Sherif<br \/>Artiste of the Year \u2013 Black Sherif<\/p>\n<p><!-- AI CONTENT END 2 -->\n\t<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cKweku the Traveler\u201d hit maker, Black Sherif was adjudged the overall Artiste of the Year at the 2023 edition of Vodafone Ghana Awards (VGMA). He beat the likes of Sarkodie, Stonebwoy, Camidoh, Esther Piesie, KiDi and King Promise to win the award in the early hours of Sunday. The 24th edition of the VGMA was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":64735,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Black Sherif Wins &#039;Artiste Of The Year&#039; At 2023 VGMA - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/05\/07\/black-sherif-wins-artiste-of-the-year-at-2023-vgma\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Black Sherif Wins &#039;Artiste Of The Year&#039; At 2023 VGMA - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"\u201cKweku the Traveler\u201d hit maker, Black Sherif was adjudged the overall Artiste of the Year at the 2023 edition of Vodafone Ghana Awards (VGMA). 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