Akwaboa's Manager Disqualifies Him

Born Gladstorm Kwabena Akwaboah, he
is popularly known in Ghana’s showbiz
industry as Akwaboah.
He is one of the three musicians in this
year’s VGMA’s ‘New Artiste of the Year’ category;
whose nomination has come under public
censorship – calling for his nomination to be
quashed because he is not a new artiste/
musician.
Researching on the said musician, I chanced on a
well written article by his manager, Flexy of Y fm
and Etv’s Talk Showbiz. Read carefully, the
relevant excerpts of the article which was posted
on Modern Ghana.com on 25 January 2013 Last
updated at 00:06 CET and credited to Flexy, Talk
showbiz (unedited).
“That is the man AKWABOAH.
He first announced his musical trademark to the
world in 2009 when he wrote Daa Ke Daa for
Becca and Ayeyi Ndwom for DSP Kofi Sarpong.
Both songs won their respective artiste awards at
the 2010 Ghana Music Awards with Akwaboah
subsequently being adjudged the Song Writer For
the year 2010 for Daa Ke Daa. Again in 2012,
Akwaboah pulled another magic in writing Best in
Me for Efya which kept her musical career going
through out last year. This will surely win her an
award at this year's music awards.
Akwaboah after years of perfecting his musical art
launched his music career last year with the
release of his first official single, I Do Love You
which is currently enjoying loads of airplay across
the country and on other international platforms.
This song brings the late eighty's born Akwaboah
out as a great Songwriter and Composer of our
time and a magnificent singer whose talent knows
no boundaries. One can easily wonder what took
him so long in letting the world know about his
talent.
With just a song out in the public domain,
Akwaboah has carved a niche for himself with his
fan base growing from strength to strength as
the days go by. His fans keeps yearning for more
which prompted him to release a bonus track
titled Mesan Agye Wo as an addition to his first
single. He is set to release his next single which
features Okyeame Kwame soon.
Some few weeks after the release of “I Do Love
You”, Akwaboah has already been tagged as the
“ladies man” by his fellow GH artistes and some
personalities in the media. His personality,
composure, attitude, voice, his choice of words
and his kind of music as well as other qualities
makes him win the heart of many young and
affluent ladies in the country. May be, the
doubting minds should get to listen to his two
songs which are officially out in the public
domain.”
How revealing? So Akwaboah actually launched
his music career in 2012 with the release of his
first official single, ‘I Do Love You’ which was not
only a ‘loser song’ but enjoyed loads of airplay
across the country and on other international
platforms.
He wrote ‘Daa Ke Daa’ for Becca and ‘Ayeyi
Ndwom’ for DSP Kofi Sarpong and both songs
won their respective artiste awards at the 2010
Ghana Music Awards with Akwaboah
subsequently being adjudged the ‘Song Writer For
the year 2010’ for ‘Daa Ke Daa’ and in 2012,
Akwaboah pulled another magic in writing Best in
Me for Efya. After all these, VGMA nominated
Akwaboah as ‘New Artiste of the Year’ in VGMA
2014. Too bad!
Well, I am by this publication calling on the VGMA
board to annul Akwaboah’s nomination for ‘New
Artiste of the Year.’ We advocate for this not out
of any malicious intent but in consonance with
the principles (criterion) of the award scheme.