The maiden edition of the Global Music Awards Africa (GMAAs) was held virtually on 20th March 2021 from Ghana.
Organized by Ghana-based event company Smart Focus Media, the GMAAs operate with a vision of honoring outstanding musical accomplishments by African acts while promoting the continent’s artists to global audiences.
“Our mission is to unite Africa through music,” asserts GMAAs CEO Daniel Adofo.
“The scheme will also honor the hard work and dedication of various stakeholders in the music industry.”
In 2021, artists from 20 countries were rewarded in various categories.
One of the star names to emerge from this inaugural event is a recording artist from Sierra Leone known as Star Zee. "ZeeZee" as she fondly refers to herself in her songs, is a cross genre artists with banging songs in hip-hop, dancehall and AfroBeats, and her award and multiple nominations reflect her ability to cross genres with ease and impact.
Star Zee bagged multiple nominations for her craft in different genres.
Global Reggae/ Dancehall Song of the Year
‘Big Money’ – Star Zee (Sierra Leone)
‘Journey’ – Stonebwoy (Ghana)
‘Dolla Bill’ – Heph B (Nigeria)
‘Shaming Enemies’ – Buffalo Souljah (Zimbabwe)
‘Choppings’ – Shatta Wale (Ghana)
Global Reggae/ Dancehall Artist of the Year
Shatta Wale (Ghana)
Star Zee (Sierra Leone)
Buffalo Souljah (Zimbabwe)
Burna Boy (Nigeria)
Stonebwoy (Ghana)
Heph B (Nigeria)
The live event was screened across multiple TV channels in Ghana, including Ceejay TV (link is external), Base TV and 3rd TV; and also streamed on the GMAAs‘ Facebook page (link is external).
The indomitable Star Zee from Sierra Leone won the Global Hip Hop Song of the Year with her big hit 'Big Money'. She conquered great competition as you can see from the full nomination.
Global HipPop Song of the Year
‘La Hustle’ – Medikal ft. Joey B and Cris Waddle (Ghana)
‘Madina’ – Teflon Flexx (Ghana)
‘Love from 233’ – Kwesi Arthur (Ghana)
‘Big Money’ – Star Zee (Sierra Leone) - WINNER
‘Camuflaje’ – D-Soulja (Equatorial Guinea)
No recording artist succeeds on their own efforts alone. The significant ones have a well structured teams behind them and Star Zee is no exception, with her video for 'Big Money' getting a nomination in the Global Best Video of the Year category; which was won by Nanky ft Sarkodie from Ghana for the song 'Favour'
Global Best Video of the Year
‘Here For You’ – Vanilla Karr (Equatorial Guinea)
‘Waa’ Santrinos – Raphael ft. Zeynab (Togo)
‘Tevunya’ – Sheeba Karungi (Uganda)
‘Big Money’ – Star Zee (Sierra Leone)
‘Without You’ – Awoskey (Nigeria)
‘Whatsapp’ – Nick Mba (Equatorial Guinea)
‘On God’ – D’Tee (Nigeria)
‘Camuflaje’ – D- Soulja (Equatorial Guinea)
‘Goddess’ – Tiisha (Goddess)
‘Wildin’ – Mmzy (Nigeria)
‘Favour’ – Nanky ft. Sarkodie (Ghana) - WINNER
‘Litty Lit’ – Cuppy ft. Teni (Nigeria)
Other acts from Sierra Leone to get nominations include, Emmerson and Terror D who got a mention in the Record of the Year and Global Afrobeats Song of the Year categories for the song 'All Access' by Terror D featuring Emmerson.
Terror D also got other nominations; one for Global Afrobeats Artist of the Year, which was won by Kelvyn Boy from Ghana, and another for the Global Rapper of the Year, which was won by Flowking Stone from Ghana.
The Global Artist of the Year award was bagged by Burna Boy from Nigeria, who recently became the first Afrobeats artist from Nigeria to win a Grammy Award along with trailblazer, WizKid.
This tells you that Star Zee is in good company and she continues to rise in the standings of African recording artists at the moment.
supremeINC is especially proud of Star Zee because she used to be signed to our management stable for a few years and we feel like we played in integral part in her development into becoming the regional superstar that she is today.
ZeeZee has continued to make good decisions with her career and her current management team at DozKabal is doing a fantastic job representing one of the most talented recording artists - male or female - from Sierra Leone.
As she says in one of her 2021 releases, 'Life', she retorts; "Look pan me watch - timeless".
Star Zee is truly a timeless artist whose songs will continue to be relevant even after she has retired and enjoying her hard work.
Keep keeping on Star Zee! We're proud of you.
Sierra Leone is proud of you too!!!
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