Who takes over from Ebony Reign as VGMA Artiste of the year?

Rufftown’s record label queen, late Ebony Reign still remains the country’s reigning artist of the coveted Ghana Music Awards, VGMA Artiste of the Year Award.

The musician who won the prestigious awards posthumously in 2018 still holds the title after organizers of the event failed to present the award to any artiste last year due to the misunderstanding which occurred at the grand event which nearly marred the beauty of the prestigious event last.

Until today, August 28, the late Ebony Reign still holds on to the crown as the first female to have won the ward and only artiste to have won the award posthumously and also two years in a roll due to misunderstanding.

With the 2020 edition of the VGMA scheduled to take place from Friday, August 28 through to August 30, the question still remains who takes over from the reigning queen of Ghana’s music?

The late Ebony Reign

Artist of the year 2020 Nominees

The VGMA has shortlisted five renowned artistes in Ghana to vie for this year’s Artiste of the Year Award.

The nominees include sensational Ghanaian Highlife musician and the youngest among the nominees, Kuami Eugene, Gospel giant and women representative, Diana Hamilton, hip hop giant, Medikal, Fante rap king, Kofi Kinaata and the country’s finest musical legend and BET Award winner, Sarkodie.

VGMA Categories

Sarkodie lead all the nominees with ten (10) nominations in nine (9) other categories namely;

• Hip-Life Song of the Year-Oofeetso
• High-Life Song of the Year-Saara
• Hip-Pop Song of the Year-Bleeding
• High-Life/Hip-Pop Artiste of the Year
• Best Collaboration of the Year – Oofeetso
• Best Collaboration of the Year-Saara
• Best Rapper of the Year
• International Collaboration of the Year-Lucky by Sarkodie ft Rudebwoy
• Album of the Year-Black love
• Most Popular Song of the Year-Oofeetso

The youngest artiste among the nominees, Kuami Eugene present six nominations in six other categories, they include

• High-Life Song of the Year-Obiaato
• Best Video of the Year-Obiaato
• High-Life Artiste of the Year
• Male Vocalist of the Year
• Best Collaboration of the Year-Ohemaa
• Most Popular Song of the Year-Obiaato

Medikal has six nominations

The Borla Bird hit maker Medikal, comes on board with six other nominations including

• Hip-Life Song of the Year-Omo Ada
• Hip-Pop Song of the Year-Drip
• Best Video of the Year-Drip
• High-Life/Hip-Pop Artiste of the Year
• Best Rapper of the Year
• Most Popular Song of the Year

Gospel sensation, Diana Hamilton, follow closely with four other nominations with her popular song Wa’asem winning her nomination in three of the four, namely, the Gospel Song of the Year, Most Popular Song of the Year and Song Writer of the Year awards. She also had a nomination in the Gospel Artiste of the Year category.

Taadi sensation and Fante Rapper, Kofi Kinaata also received a total of four other nominations including Highlife Artiste of the Year, with his hit song “Things Fall Apart” featured in the Highlife Song of the Year, Most Popular Song of the Year and Song Writer of the Year categories.

Sarkodie, the Azonto Hitmaker remains the favorite to win the Artiste of the Year award

Who will win what?

In an interview on TV3 today, Ghanaian musicians, Fameye and Strongman Burna tipped Kofi Kinaata and Sarkodie to win respectively.

According to Fameye, Sarkodie, although, very much deserving of the award has won it many times hence the need for a new face to take over the honour.

Strongman Burna, on the other hand, said King Sark has released back to back hits throughout the year and that was a plus, deserving of the award.

The gospel musician, Diana Hamilton said it was an honour and win for her to be among such a male-dominated category adding that she would be happy no matter the outcome of the award.

Certainly, all the five vying for the number one award in the VGMA have done incredibly well in the year under review and we can’t wait to see who takes over from the 90’s bad girl, the late Ebony Reign.

Source: GhanaPlus.com