Titi for video award
Mar 04, 2005
The 2005 Channel O African Music Video Awards nominees were announced in Johannesburg,
By Vision Reporter
The 2005 Channel O African Music Video Awards nominees were announced in Johannesburg, South Africa on February 17, with Ugandan artistes conspicuously missing. The Awards show will be held at the Civic Theatre on March 31. The event will be recorded ‘live’ and broadcast on Channel O on April 2 at 9:00pm.
Titi (Tendo Tabel), whose Nsonyiwa Faza album brought her fame in East Africa, is the only Ugandan artiste cited. She was nominated together with Tanzanian diva Jay Dee for their East Africa radio/video hit Makini.
Kenya and Tanzania garnered at least two nominations in different categories each. Tanzania’s Renee Lamira is up three awards. Her song, Ngoma Ya Kwetu, is up for three awards: Best Female Video, Best African East and Best Choreography.
Tanzanian singer, Ray C, and Jay Dee are both up for Best African East with their songs Mapenzi Yangu and Distance respectively.
Kenya’s celebrated Luo rap duo, Gidi Gidi Maji Maji, are also contenders in the Best African East video category.
It is not clear whether Ugandan artistes’ low ratings in the continental awards were due poor quality videos or the fact that Ugandan singers never submit their works for airing on Channel O. Part of the criteria used for short-listing were technical quality of the video and frequency of requests for a video on the different Channel O shows to measure popularity of the video.
This exercise produced the final five nominees per category. But Halima Namakula, who was in South Africa for the Kora All Africa Awards and whose music is played on Channel O, says the trouble stemmed from ignorance. “I found out about these awards in time, but I had just finished with the Koras and did not bother to submit videos.
However, I can vouch for my fellow Ugandan artistes on this. Few knew about these awards and I believe almost no one submitted videos for the event. That’s why we are missing. I don’t think it has anything to do with the quality of our videos,†she says. Ugandans can log on to ww.channelo.co.za to vote for Titi.
The 2005 Channel O African Music Video Awards nominees were announced in Johannesburg, South Africa on February 17, with Ugandan artistes conspicuously missing. The Awards show will be held at the Civic Theatre on March 31. The event will be recorded ‘live’ and broadcast on Channel O on April 2 at 9:00pm.
Titi (Tendo Tabel), whose Nsonyiwa Faza album brought her fame in East Africa, is the only Ugandan artiste cited. She was nominated together with Tanzanian diva Jay Dee for their East Africa radio/video hit Makini.
Kenya and Tanzania garnered at least two nominations in different categories each. Tanzania’s Renee Lamira is up three awards. Her song, Ngoma Ya Kwetu, is up for three awards: Best Female Video, Best African East and Best Choreography.
Tanzanian singer, Ray C, and Jay Dee are both up for Best African East with their songs Mapenzi Yangu and Distance respectively.
Kenya’s celebrated Luo rap duo, Gidi Gidi Maji Maji, are also contenders in the Best African East video category.
It is not clear whether Ugandan artistes’ low ratings in the continental awards were due poor quality videos or the fact that Ugandan singers never submit their works for airing on Channel O. Part of the criteria used for short-listing were technical quality of the video and frequency of requests for a video on the different Channel O shows to measure popularity of the video.
This exercise produced the final five nominees per category. But Halima Namakula, who was in South Africa for the Kora All Africa Awards and whose music is played on Channel O, says the trouble stemmed from ignorance. “I found out about these awards in time, but I had just finished with the Koras and did not bother to submit videos.
However, I can vouch for my fellow Ugandan artistes on this. Few knew about these awards and I believe almost no one submitted videos for the event. That’s why we are missing. I don’t think it has anything to do with the quality of our videos,†she says. Ugandans can log on to ww.channelo.co.za to vote for Titi.