The Board of the Vodafone Ghana Music Awards has taken rapper Jay Bahd off the New Artiste of the Year category of the 24th edition of the scheme.
According to the VGMA board, there have been petitions to drop the Asakaa boy from the nomination. The “Anadwo” hitmaker has had a successful 2022 touring Europe.
This comes after Jay Bahd was nominated in the category alongside Malcum Nuna, DJay, Lasmid, Ewurabena, DJ Azonto, and Chief One, was challenged by Journalist Austin Woode.
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Austine Woode provided evidence that Jay Bhad was not a new artiste in the scheme because he had nominations in the 2021 Vodafone Ghana Music Awards.
Jay Bhad and Yaw Tog bagged a nomination in the Best Collaboration of the Year in 2021 for their collaborative work, ‘Sore’.
Parts of the press release read, “One of the submissions made, which has generated high public interest, is Jay Bahd’s inclusion in the Best New Artiste category.
The Board agrees that Jay Bahd is not new to the scheme, because of his shared nomination on Yaw Tog’s ‘Sore’ for Collaboration of the Year in 2021.
This means he’s not eligible as a nominee for the Best New Artiste category of the 24th Vodafone Ghana Music Awards. The error has been corrected, and Jay Bahd and his team have been informed accordingly. The inconvenience is deeply regretted.
Jay Bhad’s removal from the New Artiste of the Year category leaves artists such as Ewura Abena, Lasmid, Chief One, DJ Azonto, Malcolm Nuna, and DJay to fight for the award.
The 2023 Vodafone Ghana Music Awards is scheduled to take place at the Grand Arena in Accra on the 6th of May, 2023, and broadcasted live on television via TV3.
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