After years of now no longer taking part withinside the Vodafone Ghana Music Awards, Stonebwoy is returned at the listing of nominees. In the brand new listing launched through the organisers, Stonebwoy made his comeback performing withinside the Reggae/Dancehall Song of the Year class. Two of his hit songs had been nominated for the class – ‘1Gad’ and ‘Greedy Men’. He goes in opposition to KiDi (Touch It), Samini (Picture), Larusso (New Gen) and Epixode (Odeshie).
Stonebwoy has additionally been nominated for the Reggae/Dancehall Artiste of the Year award. He is up in opposition to the 2021 winner Epixode, Samini and Larusso. This comes a yr after the VGMA board lifted the ban it positioned on Stonebwoy and Shatta Wale in 2019. The duo had been banned indefinitely from taking part withinside the VGMAs after an altercation among them marred the 2019 edition. For the primary time withinside the then 20-yr records of the Ghana Music Awards, organisers did not announce the winner of the ‘Artiste of the Year’ class because of the brawl.
During a press conference, the organisers said that the 2 artistes breached the code of behavior of the scheme. Mark Okraku-Mantey, who become a member of the Board, on the time, defined that the Board has the proper to brush aside or disqualify any nominee who misbehaves or brings the Awards into disrepute. The former opponents had been additionally stripped of the awards they gained at thenight time and requested to go back the plaques they had been given. In 2020, Charterhouse organisers of the award scheme enforced the ban positioned on Shatta Wale and Stonebwoy. The duo did now no longer make it in that years’ nominees listing and all of the works they featured on additionally did now no longer make it to the listing.
But in 2021, the Board determined to boost the ban. In a announcement launched through the Board of the VGMA, they referred to that even though lifting the ban made Shatta Wale and Stonebwoy eligible to take part withinside the event, the 2 opted now no longer to sign up for the oppositionthat yr. Stonebwoy discovered that this selection become taken with none previous session with both of them, casting doubt at the genuine cause of the VGMA as an award scheme.
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