[ 2011-11-21 ]

Becca with her award

Becca wins overall Best Music Video Award but...
Rebecca Akyeampong known in showbiz as Becca took
the overall Music Video Award at the second
Vodafone 4syte Music Video Awards 2011.

The second edition of the 4syte Music Video Awards
(MVA)’s which took place over the weekend would
have been one of the best shows on the 2011
entertainment calendar but for a few critical
lapses that were ignored by the organisers.

Undoubtedly the Music Awards which is sponsored by
telecom giant Vodafone is a crowd puller and it is
this bit that the organisers should learn to pay
attention to because with this number of people
coming to a show of this magnitude, they should
not be taken for granted.

Before I go into the nitty-gritty of the show let
me first acknowledge the concept of wanting to
recognise and honour our hard working artistes who
apart from giving us lovely tunes to listen and
dance to, go to great lengths to produce music
videos to complement the songs.

Also I believe everyone who came to watch the show
would agree with me that the content of the
program was great but it fell short of perfect
execution.

Big ups to all the awardees, Ghana is grateful and
proud of you and we wish you all the best in the
coming years.

For those of you who could not pick up any award,
better luck next time and hope we would be
celebrating you come the next awards.

Away from all that, are the organisers saying they
did not know the sitting capacity of the Accra
International Conference Centre for which tickets
were sold over and above the number of seats in
the Conference Centre?

I am asking this because both the ground floor and
the first floor of the Conference Centre were so
packed one could hardly find a place to step. It
was war if you tried to go out from the auditorium
and vice versa.

I could count about six people holding VIP tickets
who had to go to the first floor because there was
no space to even stand on the ground floor and
talking about standing, most people had to
virtually stand throughout the show.

Would it not have been better if the show was
taken to the Dome of the Conference Centre which
would have been a better option of the two thus
Conference Centre and Dome?

At least you could sit a lot more people in there
than in the auditorium.

Some amount of security was provided but it could
not cater for the numbers because of the obvious,
leaving innocent people to be attacked and robbed.


Yes two ladies had their purses taken away from
their seats when a scuffle broke out in the isle
on the right side of the auditorium.

One of the security guys came back after the fight
with blood stains in his shirt and no one could
tell whether it was his blood or the blood of
another.

This is simply unacceptable, not for a show like
the Music Video Awards. Not at all.

Anyway here are the winners of this year’s
Vodafone 4syte TV Music Video Awards.

Becca swept two awards - the overall best music
video with her song ‘African Woman’ and best
female video award.

Ghana’s fastest rapper Sarkodie also swept two
awards, Best Hip-hop Video with the song ‘Lay
Away ft. Sway and Best Editing.

Sarkodie also shared the Best Collaboration Award
with R2Bees with the song ‘Agyeii’.

Budding artiste Bra Kevin Beats also took home two
awards, Discovery of the Year, and Best Directed
Video with the song titled ‘3 Headed Beast’

Best Video for the Male Category went to Okyeame
Kwame with the song ‘Faithful’ ft. Bertha.

Best Hiplife Video went to Asem with the song
‘No more Kpayor’

Best Storyline Video was taken by Eassy with her
song ‘One Love’
Best Choreography Video went to Richie

Best Special Effect Video was taken by Obour

Best Highlife Video went to legendary George Darko
of ‘Ako Te Brofo fame’

Best Reggae Video was taken by Samini

Best Gospel Video went to Cwesi Oteng

Best Photography Video went to Man Sing Angel

Best Group Video went to 4x4
Best African Video went to D-Banj.

There were some honourary awardees for the event
and they included the Living Legend Award which
was picked up by Ernest Addoquaye,
Achievement Award was picked up by Ivan Quashiga

Source - Citifmonline

... go Back