Barely a month after winning Best Ghana DJ of the Year at the maiden Ghana DJ Awards, DJ Black has set his eyes on the African DJ of the Year award.
The host of the Open House Party on Joy FM has been nominated forBest African DJ at the maiden African Global DJ Awards (AGDA Awards) scheduled for South Africa.
Born Kwadwo Ampfo, DJ Black told Myjoyonline.com in an interview that “Let’s give glory to God for the Best DJ in Ghana award. Winning the best African DJ, wow that would be an icing on the cake.”
According to him, “Winning the top award is a big thing. To be nominated in that category itself is awesome, it means your skills qualify as the Best African DJ.”
Asked what his chances of winning the award are, DJ Blacked, who happens to be the first African DJ to have a personal app, said, he is “confident,” of picking up Africa’s ultimate DJ award. (Click on link to download the app.)
Mr Black, as he is affectionately called, also got nominations in theBest Western African DJ and Best Radio DJ.
The road to winning that award will not be easy as DJ Black has to shake off stiff competition from some of Africa’s finest DJs including DJ Aly and
Fila (EGYPT), DJ Fresh (South Africa), DJ Xclusive (Nigeria), DJ Crème de la crème (Kenya) and DJ Oskido (South Africa).
The African Global DJ Awards is aimed at recognizing and celebrating the talent of the Africa’s greatest DJs. This event, according to organizers, Stronghold Entertainment and Statsmedia Group, will hold annually and is the first and only African DJ awards ceremony to be held in the continent.
Top African DJs, entertainment executives, radio stations and club owners came up with the categories as well compiled the final nomination list.
Voting for the awards starts March 15, 2013 and winners will be announced at the main event on May 4, 2013 at the Sandton Convention Center, Johannesburg, South Africa.
The reactions to Chris Brown’s performance at the Hope City concert on Tuesday, organized by Charterhouse who have denied that the artist smoked marijuana live on stage, are both funny and scary.
From the day we all heard the amount that was paid to the artist to the day he performed and made a mockery of Ghana by smoking and using vulgar language, some of our readers saw it as a clarion call for the security agencies to be more alive in their responsibilities, while others regarded it as a comical indictment of the organisers, who chose to speak out unwisely instead of hiding their faces in shame, see Charterhouse denies Chris Brown smoked “weed”.
It got funnier when the financier of the Hope City concert sent in this release STATEMENT: Rlg – Chris Brown smoked “an electronic cigarette”stating that the alleged marijuana was an electronic cigarette.
Why was Chris Brown invited to Ghana at all given his background of mal-handling the opposite sex? We must ask this question: if organisers thought that a person with such a questionable history was worthy of performing in front of thousands of Ghanaians, is there really hope in Hope City?”
In 2007 and 2012 in Sweden and Norway respectively, Snoop Dogg, a major hip hop artist, was been detained and fined for possessing marijuana. And what happened to Chris Brown when he lit his marijuana and smoked on stage In Ghana? He got off scot-free? Thus, the question is there ‘hope’ in Hope City?”
A warning must be sent to Chris Brown, through the organisers, that we shall not be cajoled by their flimsy excuses before bringing another law breaker to Ghana to pummel, trample and ridicule our culture all in the name of entertaining us. To be forewarned is to be forearmed!
Ghana’s king of the streets, Kwaw Kese also known as Abodam, says there is too much ignorance in the country which is killing the creative arts industry.
Kwaw Kese was sharing his thoughts on the infamous Chris Brown weed smoking saga at an Rlg program on Tuesday.
He said if it were a Ghanaian artist who had smoked weed on stage, he will not be walking freely even from stage.
“There is too much ignorance in Ghana, Ghanaian Dj’s play songs from the west that contain the ‘F’ and ‘N’ words on radio but refuse to play songs played by Ghanaian artist… “My song Fle Fle was not played because someone thought I was insulting somebody” he laments.
“We gave him the opportunity, because if the organizers had briefed him on the dos’ and donts of our society he would not have done that,” the Abodam man said.
“Chris brown cannot stand on any American stage and smoke weed, so doing that in Ghana is respect to the whole nation.
“A lot of people smoke, Artistes, Djs, politicians; but it’s not something you go out and do in public,” the street branded artiste said.
Chris Brown’s choice of stage antics has been a subject of discussion in the country, some members of parliament have called for his immediate arrest while a group is purported to have lodged a complaint at the stadium police station for his arrest.
Though organizers of the event Charterhouse and Rlg have come out in separate accounts to explain the situation, their position seems to have fueled public anger.
Police PR Cephas Arthur in an attempt to explain actions by the police asked if Ghanaians can say they have not done this before.
He said we must take the log out of our eyes, and then we will see clearly to take the speck out of our brother's eye.
Ghanaian actor Michael Moncar has passed away. According to source to the actor’s family, the unfortunate incident happened at about 5am Friday, after a short illness.
Actor and close friend to the deceased, Mr. Fred Amugi confirmed to Peacefmonline.com that even though it is so hard to believe, death has laid its cold hands on his bosom friend Michael Moncar.
“Michael has been sick for about a week now until this unfortunate incident happened but my brother God knows best”, the actor told Peacefmonline’s in a shaky voice.
Fred disclosed that the unassuming actor has been on admission at the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital for about a week until he died this morning.
Chris Brown allegedly threw his bodyguard off a plane.
The controversial R&B star abandoned his long-time bodyguard known as Big Pat in Bermuda after a pit stop on the Caribbean island on Wednesday after they apparently got into a fight on board.
An airport worker explained to The Bermuda Sun newspaper: 'I'm not sure of the details of what happened on the plane but his plane came in, got services and everything was finishing and they were getting ready to leave.
'Then there was a stall. The security guard [Big Pat] got off first. He was standing outside talking to the pilot. Then Chris Brown and another guy came off. They had to come inside to Customs.
'They then went outside to have a cigarette. The security guard came inside [an airport building] and said he wasn't getting back on the plane.'
The bodyguard told the staff member he had an 'altercation' with Chris. Big Pat was forced to take a Jet Blue commercial flight to New York City's JFK Airport after the furious Don't Wake Me Up singer jetted off in his private plane.
The 23-year-old singer was travelling back from his gig at the Accra Sports Stadium in Ghana, West Africa on Tuesday.
Big Pat has stuck by Chris through his previous temper tantrums and even took a glass bottle to the head during the star's club brawl with love rival Drake last June.
Meanwhile Brown was at the centre of another bust up on Wednesday night - after allegedly threatening a valet parker at a Los Angeles bowling alley over the $10 service charge.
TMZ is running a video of the altercation, in which Brown is seen getting irate, saying: 'Gimme my f*cking keys ... f*** ten dollars.'
He then added: 'Gimme my keys ... we gonna turn this whole spot up ... I promise you.'
A source close to Brown told the website the singer was annoyed because he was being 'fleeced'.
Other customers at the PINZ bowling alley in Studio City were only charged $5 and Brown felt he was taken advantage of because of his fame, the insider said, adding it was the 'principle' of the matter rather than the money.
The website reports he eventually drove off, but said it was not clear whether he paid the fee or not.
Hours later Chris apparently held up traffic after blocking a lane near La Brea Blvd and Hollywood Blvd with his Dodge Viper car.
According to X17 Online, police approached the vehicle and found it empty. Brown later emerged from the Emerson nightclub and spoke to police who allowed him to drive away without a ticket.
