KORA All-Africa Awards Unveil 2016 Nominees with SoundcityTV as Official Broadcast Partner and Namibia as Host

KORA All-Africa Awards Unveil 2016 Nominees with SoundcityTV as Official Broadcast Partner and Namibia as Host

KORA All-Africa Music Awards, the  African continent's first and premier award ceremony in the musical arts  has announced the nominees in the 26 categories for her 2016 edition.   The award ceremony taking place at the Windhoek Country Club in Namibia  has partnered with SoundcityTV Africa as official Broadcast Media.


 

The Award Ceremony which is set to take place on the 20th of March 2016,  and will form part of the host country - Namibia's annual National Day  celebrations would be televised live on SoundcityTV - Channel 327 on  DSTV, GOtv Channel 75 and her digital platforms across 55 countries.

 

SoundcityTV delivers the very best of Culture, Music, Entertainment and Lifestyle to a worldwide audience, a fitting for the KORA All-Africa Awards. 

 

“We are excited about the partnership to take the 2016 KORA All-Africa Award to 55 countries and to our over 40 million audience via the live broadcast and digital platforms," said  Mr. Tajuddeen Adepetu, who is Chief Executive at Consolidated Media  Associates and Executive Producer at SoundcityTV Africa. "We are inspired by the incredible work of KORA team over the last 12 years and then by 2016 crop of nominees for the  award. Next year's ceremony would be nothing short of spectacular even  to audience who would be tuned in from their homes via SoundcityTV."

 

The Namibian government who would be playing host for the March 20th ceremony has thrown her weight fully behind the 2016 edition of the Award. In  a communication recently issued by the Namibian Ministry of Environment  and Tourism in conjunction with the Ministries of Education, Arts &  Culture; and Information and Communication Technology, the Namibian  government expressed the belief that the creative industries play a key  role in contributing to the economy and in doing so, furthering the  poverty alleviation agenda through tourism, the cultural arts and the  creative industries which largely informed the partnership with the  Organizers of KORA.

 

The statement from the Namibian government in part read: 'These  programmes are designed to ensure Namibian's participation in this  landmark event, and assure that the country's tourism, ICT and art  industries benefit directly from the events being hosted in Namibia. As  such, we are pleased to endorse the KORA AII-Africa Music Awards and anticipate the positive impact it will have on Namibia's creative economy.

 

It is our further belief that the KORA  All-Africa Music Awards also represents a unique opportunity for  public-private partnership to jointly collaborate in the delivery of a  landmark event, and as such, encourage role-players in the private  sector to explore partnership opportunities with the event.' The full  Media Release by the Namibian Government is available on Soundcity.tv  website.

 

The 2016 KORA All-Africa Awards' nomination list released via @SoundcityTV twitter account and on the koraawards.com website  on the 3rd of November, 2015 saw over a 100 of the most promising and  gifted artistes nominated across the four regions of the continent.

 

Nigerian artistes and categories they are nominated are: Reekado  Banks for Most Promising Male Artist of Africa; Yemi Alade for Most  Promising Female Artist of Africa; P-Square for Legendary Award; Tiwa  Savage, Flavour N'abania and Korede Bello for Best Video; Lara George  for Best Female  - Spiritual Music; Flavour scores a second nomination  for 'Best Male - West Africa' alongside Davido; Tiwa Savage is also  nominated for 'Best Female - West Africa' while Bracket are up for Best  Group of Africa; The trio of BNG are nominated for Best Group -  Spiritual; Mavins' 'Adaobi' is nominated for Best Collaboration.

 

It is also noteworthy that winners from every category would not only be going home with the coveted KORA plaques but cash prizes ranging from twenty thousand dollars ($20,000) to a million dollars ($1,000,000).

 

The countdown begins!

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