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legit9ja · 7 years ago

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Full List Of Winners At The 2017 All Africa Music Awards #AFRIMA2017

On Sunday, November 12 2017, The All Africa Music Awards (AFRIMA) ceremony was held in Lagos. The prestigious award was hosted by the globally recognized Senegalese singer, Akon and music stars across the African continent gathered at the event to celebrate the best of African music. Nigerian artistes Wizkid was the biggest winner of the night after losing the ‘Best African Act’ to Davido, he claimed the award for best male artiste (West Africa), artiste of the year and song of the year with his collaboration with Drake, Come Closer. Tiwa Savage, Simi, YCEE, DJ Coublon, Adasa Cookey are some of the other Nigerian music professionals to claim awards at the well-attended event. See full list of winners below: ARTISTE OF THE YEAR: Wizkid (Nigeria) AFRICAN FANS FAV: The Dogg (Namibia) ALBUM OF THE YEAR: Eddy Kenzo – “Biology” (Uganda) BEST AFRICAN COLLABORATION: Alikiba – ‘Aje’ ft M.I Abaga (Tanzania) BEST AFRICAN CONTEMPORARY: Wande Coal – ‘Iskaba’ ft DJ Tunez (Nigeria) BEST AFRICAN ELECTRO: Nsoki – ‘Africa Unite’ ft DJ Maphorisa, Paulo Alves (Angola) BEST AFRICAN GROUP/DUO/BAND: Toofan – ‘Tere Tere’ (Togo) BEST AFRICAN HIP HOP: Ycee – ‘Juice’ (Nigeria) BEST AFRICAN JAZZ: Nduduzo Makhatini – ‘Igagu’ (South Africa) BEST AFRICAN POP: Toofan – ‘Tere tere’ (Togo) BEST AFRICAN REGGAE,RAGGA,DANCE-HALL: 2baba – ‘Holy holy’ (Nigeria) BEST AFRICAN RnB AND SOUL: Alikiba – ‘Aje’ ft M.I Abaga (Tanzania) BEST AFRICAN ROCK: Gilad – ‘Angel Uriel’ ft Omer Millo (Kenya) BEST AFRICAN TRADITIONAL: Halmelmal Abate – ‘Harar’ (Ethiopia) BEST FEMALE INSPIRATIONAL: Asikey – ‘Earth Attack’ (Nigeria) BEST MALE INSPIRATIONAL: Gilad – ‘Angel Uriel’ ft Omer Millo (Kenya) MOST PROMISING ARTISTE OF THE YEAR: Neza – ‘Uranyica’ (Rwanda) SONG OF THE YEAR: Wizkid – ‘Come closer’ (Nigeria) REVELATION OF THE AFRICAN CONTINENT: Shyn – ‘Resim Pitia’ (Madagascar) PRODUCER OF THE YEAR: DJ Coublon – ‘Yolo Yolo’ by Seyi Shay (Nigeria) SONGWRITER OF THE YEAR: Simi – ‘Smile’ AFRICAN LEGEND AWARD: Salif Keita (Mali) and Oliver ‘Tutu’ Mtukudzi (Zimbabwe) VIDEO OF THE YEAR: Adasa Cookey – ‘Cooking Pot’ by Orezi CENTRAL AFRICA (Best Female) : Montess – Love Witta Gun Man (Cameroon) CENTRAL AFRICA (Best Male): Locko – Supporter ft Mr Leo (Cameroon) EAST AFRICA (Best Female): Nandy – One Day (Tanzania) EAST AFRICA (Best Male): Henok & Mehari Brothers – Firkir Yishala (Ethiopia) SOUTHERN AFRICA (Best Female): Thandiswa – Nontsokolo (South Africa) SOUTHERN AFRICA (Best Male): Emtee – We Up (South Africa) WEST AFRICA (Best Female): Tiwa Savage – All Over (Nigeria) WEST AFRICA (Best Male): Wizkid – Come Closer ft Drake (Nigeria) NORTH AFRICA (Best Female): Ibitssam Tiskat – Menak Wla Meni (Morocco) NORTH AFRICA (Best Male): Shayfeen – Wach Kayn Wader (Morocco) Read the full article

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deafhard-blog · 7 years ago

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Full List Of Winners 2017 Afrima Awards

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Full List Of Winners 2017 Afrima Awards

Winners of AFRIMA Awards 2017.

All Africa Music Awards (AFRIMA) 2017, which held on Sunday, November 12, 2017 was hosted by Multi-Platinum international artiste, Akon. Different stars from all over the continent graced the event which celebrated their achievements in music.

Here we got the full list of winners at the 2017 AFRIMA Awards, check them out below

ARTISTE OF THE YEAR:Wizkid (Nigeria)

AFRICAN FANS FAV:The Dogg (Namibia)

ALBUM OF THE YEAR:Eddy Kenzo – “Biology” (Uganda)

BEST AFRICAN COLLABORATION: Alikiba – ‘Aje’ ft M.I Abaga (Tanzania)

BEST AFRICAN CONTEMPORARY: Wande Coal – ‘Iskaba’ ft DJ Tunez (Nigeria)

BEST AFRICAN ELECTRO: Nsoki – ‘Africa Unite’ ft DJ Maphorisa, Paulo Alves (Angola)

BEST AFRICAN GROUP/DUO/BAND: Toofan – ‘Tere Tere’ (Togo)

BEST AFRICAN HIP HOP: Ycee – ‘Juice’ (Nigeria)

BEST AFRICAN JAZZ: Nduduzo Makhatini – ‘Igagu’ (South Africa)

BEST AFRICAN POP: Toofan – ‘Tere tere’ (Togo)

BEST AFRICAN REGGAE,RAGGA,DANCE-HALL: [/b]2baba – ‘Holy holy’ (Nigeria)

BEST AFRICAN RnB AND SOUL: Alikiba – ‘Aje’ ft M.I Abaga (Tanzania)

BEST AFRICAN ROCK: Gilad – ‘Angel Uriel’ ft Omer Millo (Kenya)

BEST AFRICAN TRADITIONAL: Halmelmal Abate – ‘Harar’ (Ethiopia)

BEST FEMALE INSPIRATIONAL: Asikey – ‘Earth Attack’ (Nigeria)

BEST MALE INSPIRATIONAL: Gilad – ‘Angel Uriel’ ft Omer Millo (Kenya)

MOST PROMISING ARTISTE OF THE YEAR: Neza – ‘Uranyica’ (Rwanda)

SONG OF THE YEAR: Wizkid – ‘Come closer’ (Nigeria)

REVELATION OF THE AFRICAN CONTINENT: Shyn – ‘Resim Pitia’ (Madagascar)

PRODUCER OF THE YEAR: DJ Coublon – ‘Yolo Yolo’ by Seyi Shay (Nigeria)

SONGWRITER OF THE YEAR: Simi – ‘Smile’

AFRICAN LEGEND AWARD: Salif Keita (Mali) and Oliver ‘Tutu’ Mtukudzi (Zimbabwe)

VIDEO OF THE YEAR: Adasa Cookey – ‘Cooking Pot’ by Orezi

Central Africa (Best Female) : Montess – Love Witta Gun Man (Cameroon)

Central Africa (Best Male): Locko – Supporter ft Mr Leo (Cameroon)

East Africa (Best Female): Nandy – One Day (Tanzania)

[b]East Africa (Best Male) :Henok & Mehari Brothers – Firkir Yishala (Ethiopia)

Southern Africa (Best Female): Thandiswa – Nontsokolo (South Africa)

Southern Africa (Best Male): Emtee – We Up (South Africa)

West Africa (Best Female) :Tiwa Savage – All Over (Nigeria)

West Africa (Best Male): Wizkid – Come Closer ft Drake (Nigeria)

North Africa (Best Female): Ibitssam Tiskat – Menak Wla Meni (Morocco)

North Africa (Best Male):Shayfeen – Wach Kayn Wader (Morocco)

#AFRIMA 2017 #Awards #List of Winners

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artsvark · 7 years ago

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Guitarrist Vuma Levin tours nationally his new jazz album

Vuma Levin

In association with Concerts SA, Vuma Levin presents the national tour if his second studio album, Life and Death on the Otherside of the Dream.

Matching his virtuosity, Vuma will be surrounded by an impressive array of locally based and international musicians. The 5 performances in Johannesburg will feature Vuma himself, Bernard van Rossum (UK/Netherlands), Xavi Torres Vicente (Spain), Peter Auret, Benjamin Jephta, Bokani Dyer and Marcus Wyatt. In Cape Town, the 5 performances will include Bernard van Rossum, Andre Petersen, Shane Cooper, Jonno Sweetman and, of course, Vuma Levin. Lastly, for the Durban leg of the tour, Vuma will do a special duo collaboration with renowned pianist Neil Gonsalves.

Asked about this album launch tour, Vuma says: “This music is, on the one hand, a personal reflection on the last seven years that I’ve spent in the Netherlands in a kind of self-imposed exile away from home. On the other hand it is broader reflection on the crises of the post-Apartheid South African self at home, in the diaspora and in an age of globalisation. Finally, by presenting a series of songs that are deeply hybrid in nature the album is an attempt to implicitly respond the commodification and fetishisation of African art and the cliched ‘single story’ told about South Africa and its people in the West.”

Vuma Levin

Vuma makes use of digital samples and prepared instruments and fuses, contemporary jazz, rock, hip-hop, pop and South African musical forms such as marabi, goema and Nguni-Sotho choral and gourd bow song. All of this hopes to capture and articulate the unique sonic landscape of South Africa and its people whilst still being sensitive to our place as agents in a global order.

Born and raised during the unstable interregnum years of post-Apartheid South Africa, guitarist Vuma Ian Levin’s music is an attempt to interrogate conceptions of identity, nation, culture, power and being both globally and in the emergent, post-1994 national democratic project.

Beginning his studies in jazz at age 18, Vuma received lessons from guitar legend, Johnny Fourie. He completed a National Diploma at the Tshwane University of Technology going on to be presented with the best Guitarist Award (2008). In 2009, he was selected as the guitarist in the Standard Bank National Youth Jazz Band, which culminated in a performance at the Grahamstown Jazz Festival and later at the Standard Bank Joy of Jazz Festival.

Vuma went on to attend the prestigious Conservatorium Van Amsterdam where he graduated and earned the Non-EU Talent Scholarship to finance his masters study. In 2014 he, won the 2nd prize in the National Leg of the Keep an Eye Jazz Awards. He went on to win the 3rd prize, incentive prize and prize for the most original band in the international leg of the Keep an Eye Jazz Awards, which featured bands from New York, Helsinki, Amsterdam, Vienna and Philadelphia. In 2014 he was nominated for the Dutch Eindwerk Prijs and went on to be announced as one of the 9 national finalists. In 2015, he was selected as a finalist in the Dutch Keep an Eye: The Records awards. In 2016, Vuma won the national leg of the Keep an eye Jazz awards and came third in the international leg, featuring bands from Sienna, Boston, New York, Barcelona and Amsterdam. Finally, in the same year Vuma graduated from the Conservatorium van Amsterdam cum laude and was announced as semi-finalist in the Montreux Socar International Jazz guitar competition in which he placed in the top 8.

Levin has performed with some of the top musicians in South Africa and abroad including: Feya Faku, Herbie Tsoeli, Nduduzo Makhatini, Marcus Wyatt, Ayanda Sikade, Sisonke Xonti, Bokani Dyer, Thandi Nthuli, Benjamin Jephta, Tumi Mogorosi, Nhlanhla Mahlangu, Justin Bellairs, Benjamin Herman (Netherlands), Thijs Borstein (Netherlands), Maarten Hogenhuis (Netherlands), Mark Schilders (Netherlands), Romy Brauteseth, Ariel Zamonsky, Zwelakhe Duma-Le Pere, Robin Fassie Kock and many more.

He has performed at a number of top venues and festivals in South Africa and abroad including: Montreux International Jazz Festival (Switzerland), The Amsterdam Jazz Festival (Netherlands), Jazzfest (Amsterdam, Netherlands), North Sea Round Town Jazz Festival (Netherlands), Amsterdam Redlight Jazz Festival (Netherlands), Bimhuis (Amsterdam, Netherlands), De Tor (Netherlands), InJazz Showcase (Rotterdam), Budapest Jazz Showcase (Budapest, Hungary), Standard Bank Joy of Jazz (South Africa), Grahamstown Jazz Festival (South Africa), Mahogany Room (South Africa), The Crypt (South Africa), Tagore’s (South Africa), Afrikan Freedom Station (South Africa), The Orbit (South Africa), More Jazz Series (Mozambique). Vuma has received lessons from and attended master-classes by Lage Lund, Jesse Van Ruller, Gilad Hekselman, Kurt Rosenwinkel, Terryl Stafford, Reinier Baas, Ambrose Akinmusire, Gary Wittner, Helen Sung, Martijn Van Iterson, Maarten van de Grinten and many more.

Finally Vuma has released two solo albums – The Spectacle of An-other and Life and Death on the Otherside of the Dream – and recorded on 3 others (Aspire and Idefix by Aurelio Project, Phatsound), the first of which received a 4-star review from the Netherlands’ largest Jazz publication “Jazzism”.

Vuma Levin´s South African National Tour is supported by Concerts SA through the Music Mobility Fund, a funding mechanism which offers opportunities for South African musicians to undertake live music tours.

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artsvark · 8 years ago

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International Jazz Extravaganza returns to serenade Durban

Impressive line-up for jazz connoisseurs includes Grammy winner Kurt Elling.

Kurt Elling (Photo by Anna Webber)

The second International Jazz Extravaganza (IJE) will once again be wowing Durban jazz fans with inspiring star performances and unmatched hospitality when it returns to the Durban International Convention Centre-Arena (Durban ICC-Arena) on 17 June 2017. So far three acts for the night have been announced – edgy US jazz vocalist Kurt Elling, well-known local artist Nduduzo Makhatini and sensational new vocalist and pianist Thandi Ntuli.

“The first IJE, held in March last year, offered something that no other jazz event in South Africa caters for – entertainment for the pure jazz lover. This, along with a luxurious hospitality experience that combines music, food, and travel, is what makes IJE so unique, and sets us apart. Our second extravaganza will be even more memorable than the first, and as a result, seats are already selling out fast” notes Sindile Xulu, President and CEO of the IJE.

Real treat in store for jazz lovers

Nduduzo Makhathini

Music icon Kurt Elling will no doubt be a huge drawcard for jazz aficionados to the IJE. With every one of his ten albums being nominated for a Grammy, Elling is well known for the impressive technical mastery and emotional depth of his rich baritone voice. A renowned artist of vocalese – the writing and performing of words over recorded improvised jazz solos – Elling is revered in the jazz world for his dynamic lyrics and creative spirit.

Another artist who will be performing at this year’s IJE, and has won the heart of many jazz lovers globally, is local muso Nduduzo Makhathini. His chosen instrument is the piano, which he feels allows him to express himself best through his music. He has been nominated for numerous SAMAs, both for production and performance, and has played, toured and recorded with Busi Mhlongo, Zim Ngqawana, Feya Faku, Jimmy Dludlu, Herbie Tsoaeli and many others.

“I am honoured to be returning to the IJE stage for a second year, as it is an event that puts jazz artistry at the forefront,” explains Makhathini. “For this year’s performance, I will be focusing on my umbrella project that I call ‘iKhambi’, which celebrates blackness through our various modes of healing through music. The IJE is also a wonderful platform to highlight my home province, KZN, and what it has to offer in terms of cultures, traditions, food and music.”

Thandi Ntuli

The IJE’s focus on emphasising what Durban has to offer as an intimate music destination aligns with the focus of one of its presenting partners, the City of Durban. “Our city is well known for our generous hospitality, warm weather, and engaging cultures. The IJE gives us an opportunity to showcase more of Durban, and also accelerates our economic growth and local employment. We are proud to host this event for the second year running,” says City of Durban Mayor, Cllr Zandile Gumede.

Says Nontokozo Madonsela, Head of Marketing for Standard Bank Personal and Business Banking, “We are thrilled that Standard Bank has become synonymous with jazz in South Africa. Our support of events such as IJE and the Standard Bank Joy of Jazz, as well as the Standard Bank Young Artists Awards, only cements our association with this phenomenal art form and, we trust, will go far in seeing this genre of music growing from strength to strength across Africa. We look forward to partnering with IJE, the City of Durban, KZN’s Provincial Department of Arts and Culture and SAA in celebrating a rich blend of African and international jazz in the heart of Kwa-Zulu Natal, bringing jazz enthusiasts and connoisseurs from across the continent together for one night in a truly global celebration of the art of jazz and its heritage.”

Tickets to the IJE are available at Computicket. For hospitality and corporate packages, please contact [email protected] or visit www.ije.co.za for more information.

The second IJE is brought to you by its presenting partners, the KZN Provincial Department of Arts and Culture and The City of Durban, along with its association partners, Standard Bank Personal and Business Banking and SAA. Media partners for the IJE are Mzanzi Magic Music, Kaya FM and East Coast Radio and their official suppliers are Aha Hotels & Lodges, The Blue Train, and SMG-Durban BMW.

International Jazz Extravaganza returns to serenade Durban was originally published on Artsvark

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