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Artist manager and entertainment pundit, Nana Poku Ashis, has urged organisers of Telecel Ghana Music Awards (TGMAs) to entrust the public with the sole responsibility of selecting Artiste of the Year.
To Ashis, the public is better positioned to determine the winner of the scheme’s ultimate award, as they are more in tune with the popularity and impact of songs and their artists.
The category definition for “Artiste of the Year states that the artist of the year is the artist(s) adjudged by the Academy, Board, and the general public as the artist(s) with the highest audience appeal and popularity.
The artist(s) must have released a hit single/album during the year under review.”
Speaking to the media, Ashis argued that the academy and board members are detached from the grassroots and lack a thorough understanding of an artist’s influence and relevance, making them unfit to decide on the award.
“The Artist of the Year should be left to the public.
I strongly think if they want to be very fair, they should pull out the academy, and the board from voting, because it’s a populist award.
“Same with the Song of the Year, we all know, it is the public that knows which particular song was the biggest hit in the year under review.
But then, when the technicalities add up to it, it takes it from who was supposed to win.
Once they say it’s a populist award, they should leave that overall artist and most popular song of the year to the public to vote for.”
“I think they should change people on the board from time to time. Some of these people have been there for too long, and they’ve written the same notes over and over again.
It’s not refreshing.
It’s about time they bring in new people with new ideas.
“The young generation is different.
See, some of our old people do not understand what is going on now with the younger generation and the trends in music they are doing.
So if you keep the same people on the board for too long, you’ll be frustrating most of the new crop of artists and the kind of productions they bring out.
