{"id":66288,"date":"2023-05-12T13:21:55","date_gmt":"2023-05-12T13:21:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/05\/12\/i-wanted-vgma-to-nominate-my-gospel-song-in-afrobeats-category-scott-evans\/"},"modified":"2023-05-12T13:21:55","modified_gmt":"2023-05-12T13:21:55","slug":"i-wanted-vgma-to-nominate-my-gospel-song-in-afrobeats-category-scott-evans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/05\/12\/i-wanted-vgma-to-nominate-my-gospel-song-in-afrobeats-category-scott-evans\/","title":{"rendered":"I wanted VGMA to nominate my gospel song in afrobeats category – Scott Evans\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Urban gospel musician, Scott Evans is one of the proponents of the agenda to have gospel songs nominated in all genre categories in the Vodafone Ghana Awards.<\/p>\n

Earlier, Akesse Brempong had in a tweet, wondered why gospel songs were not nominated in the highlife category.<\/p>\n

\u201cMediated by the worship experience in Pentecostal-Charismatic churches, we can observe that an aesthetics of liveness has reentered highlife music through the idiom of gospel (F. Carl 2014). But no gospel song in the HIGH LIFE CATEGORY of VGMA24,\u201d he wrote.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Mediated by the worship experience in Pentecostal-Charismatic churches, we can observe that an aesthetics of liveness has reentered highlife music through the idiom of gospel (F. Carl 2014)<\/p>\n

But no gospel song in the HIGH LIFE CATEGORY of VGMA24 @GHMusicAwards<\/a>@Kwamedadziegh<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Akesse Brempong (@AkesseTheLion) May 9, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n

Another gospel musician, Kofi Owusu Preprah also wrote: \u201cThere\u2019s so much VALUE that gospel brings to the award schemes. Organizers must seriously consider\u00a0\u00a0opening up to gospel across all categories. Gospel is \u201cThe Message\u201d and not merely the rhythm. Today GH appreciates gospel in hi-life + all rhythms!\u201d<\/p>\n

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There’s so much VALUE that gospel brings to the award schemes. Organizers must seriously consider opening up to gospel across all categories. Gospel is “The Message” and not merely the rhythm. Today GH appreciates gospel in hi-life + all rhythms! @GHMusicAwards<\/a> @3musicnetworks<\/a> https:\/\/t.co\/Bl3C8zNE4d<\/p>\n

\u2014 Kofi Owusu Peprah (@kofiowusupeprah) May 10, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n

Speaking on Joy FM\u2019s Twitter Spaces show on Wednesday, May 9, 2023, Scott Evans said he even submitted his song \u2018Best Side\u2019, to the VGMA Board to be nominated in the Afrobeats\/Afropop song category but it did not earn a nomination.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cAmazingly, when I was filing for the VGMA, I filed for Afrobeat Song of the Year,\u201d he told Kwame Dadzie.<\/p>\n

Asked if he was disappointed he didn\u2019t earn a nomination in that category, Scott said \u201cit is one of those things.\u201d<\/p>\n

According to him, it is about time the scheme went beyond just nominating gospel songs by just their message but also the rhythm.\u00a0<\/p>\n

In his response the Head of Public Events and Communications at Charterhouse, the organizers of the Vodafone Ghana Awards, Robert Klah said although the issue of nominating gospel songs in the various genre-categories had been raised at the VGMA Board meetings before, they would still make room for further discussions.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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