Miss Supranational Comes To Ghana

Miss Supranational 2012

World Beauty Association’s (WBA) Miss Supranational event will be held in Ghana for the first time this year.

Ghanaian entertainment production house Lilys House Entertainment has obtained the legitimate right to present the highly professional TV transmitted show in Ghana in collaboration with Viasat 1.

Miss Supranational is an annual beauty contest that is held in Panama and some other parts of the world. It not a typical beauty contest but comes in an attractive concept.

It involves highly entertaining performances and exciting presentation until the end.

Ghana will be hosting the event this year for the first and perhaps subsequent years by Lilys House Entertainment. Ghana’s will be dubbed Miss Supranational Ghana 2013.

Lilys House Entertainment is an outfit created to touch African lives, through TV reality show, art designing- either radio or television- and event organizing.

It also has experience in movie making, project builders, script writing, website designing, education, publishing etc.

The company has been around for a while and hopes are that it pulls off a good show with the upcoming event.

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AMAA Goes Back To Bayelsa

Majid Michel, Africa's Best Actor 2012

The ninth edition of Africa Movie Academy Awards (AMAA), the most popular awards ceremony in Africa, is scheduled to come off April 25, 2013 in Bayelsa, Nigeria.

Last year, the award ceremony was organized in Lagos instead of Bayelsa where it was held since its inception.

Reasons given for the move to Lagos were challenges in the areas of security

, accommodation and airport logistics which were inadequate in Bayelsa State to hold an event of such magnitude at the time.

This year, the event is going back to Bayelsa and is expected to host some international names.

Nominations will be revealed in Malawi, Friday, March 15, 2013. The AMAA, since its inception in May 2005, has been held in Bayelsa State, except for the 2008 and 2012 editions which were held in Abuja and Lagos respectively.

The event is presented annually to recognize excellence in the African film industry, rewarding directors, actors, and writers.

The awards are aimed at honouring and promoting excellence in the African movie industry as well as uniting the African continent through arts and culture.

Currently, the AMAA jury is going through various processes to see a success award this year.

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More Stars Endorse Bass Awards

Media personnel at the launching the ceremony

More musicians and industry players have thrown their weight behind the newly launched BASS Awards.

The BASS Awards 2013 is an annual event that seeks to reward African Reggae and Dancehall Music artistes. 

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It is the first of its kind and the future looks very bright as it touches on one of the most respected genres in the world.

The event was launched in Accra on February 22 at the Alisa Hotel. It attracted a number of musicians and stakeholders in the entertainment industry.

Stars who have endorsed the ceremony include Bandana, Trigmatic, Stephanie Benson, Tic Tac, Stonebuoy, Wutah Kobby, Nii Lante and more.   

It is an established fact that Reggae and Dancehall have made a tremendous impact among music lovers and the artistes themselves hardly get noticed or appreciated.

The award is specially designed to show gratitude to reggae and dancehall musicians, to serve as an annual gathering of lovers of reggae and dancehall and generally present top notch entertainment to the public.

The name of the event was derived from Rhythms and Bass (pronounced Base) which happened to be the basis for the reggae and dancehall genres.

The preparations for the event, which is expected to come off between June 29 and July 1, 2013, have started in earnest.

A special diary will be broadcasted on television soon before the event will be held.

Kweku Pra of Rackus Productions, organizers of the event, stated, “The BASS Awards has been a work in progress for a while now, adding that the intention is to create the continent’s biggest and foremost Reggae and Dancehall celebration every year.”

Kwaku also hinted that the event would see a performance by a top international male Dancehall artiste, though he stopped short of naming the artiste.

The BASS Awards is organised by Rackus Productions and powered by Bullhaus Entertainment and Solid Multimedia.

Music lovers and the public can access details of the BASS Awards via www.bassawards.net  or like the awards on the Facebook fan page, Bassawards, or follow on twitter @bassawards.

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Alberto Strides With ‘Hands In The Air’

Alberto

Despite the rise and fall of many upcoming artistes in Ghana, new and talented artiste Alberto, born Albert Koomson, is hopeful of staying around in the music industry for a long time.

He is the newest musician to announce his presence on Ghana’s music scene with enough energy and those who have listened to his stuff have attested he is good.

Born in the early 90’s in Nigeria, at Imo state, where he spent five months, he was brought to Ghana in April 1992. He lived in Accra at a town called Swalaba for two years and relocated to Tema in 1994.

His mother is Beatrice Boahmoah, a Ghanaian from the Ashanti Region, and his dad, Fred Igwe, is a Nigerian from Imo state in Igbo. He was named after his step-dad of blessed memory, Prince Koomson. He was also a musician who played the trumpet in a band with A.B. Crentsil called ‘Sweet Talks’. He is the last of four children.

Alberto lived in Tema Community 9, attended his nursery school at Sharon in Tema Community 9, and has his primary and junior high education at Firstar Academy, in Community 12 Tema. He attended Chemu Senior High School in Community 4 Tema, and completed in 2008 and later took a course in Graphic Design at NIIT.

Afterwards, he decided to go into music.

Alberto

In 2012, Alberto released his first two singles; ‘Hands In The Air’ and ‘Logoligi’, produced by Strawberry House Entertainment (SHE), after he hooked up with an executive producer and the two have recorded a couple of singles which are beginning to spark up major interests.

“Working with Chemphe and his business partner, producer and co- founder S.H.E, Mr. Ishmael Dawutey (UK)  has given me the freedom to be myself and to make music exactly the way I want to make it,” he stated.

‘Hands In The Air’video peaked at number 11 on Gh-One’s new artiste video chart. Other singles include ‘Shekome’ and ‘Hands In The Air’ remix. He has other singles coming out soon featuring stay Jay, Chemphe, Tony Harmony and a few others.

By the end of 2013 and early 2014, Alberto believed he would steadily, with hard work and good music, take over the industry and be noted as one of the fastest growing and successful musicians. “Making good music, topping music charts, featuring and doing collaborations with some big artistes, plus touring the world and most importantly making the people who have accepted me happy through any means, would be my focus,” he enthusiastically noted.

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