Beyonce, Lady Gaga top MTV Music Award Nominees

When MTV announced the nominees for its 2009 Video Music Awards show, two artists came out clearly on top. Beyonce and Lady Gaga lead the pack with 9 nominations each. The next closest artist is Britney Spears, with 7 nominations.
Beyonce, wife of super producer and rapper Jay-Z, is nominated in the following categories: Best Female [...]

Posted in Artist awards on August 18th, 2009
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Panafrica: Dance to a Different Beat

The Kora All Africa Music Awards could be good for local music - if we knew how to exploit them, writes Thebe Mabanga Next weekend’s Kora All Africa Music Awards - the sixth of their kind - will, one hopes, be better received than last year. It was an event fraught with logistical problems, gripes [...]

Posted in Artist awards on September 12th, 2008
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