The nominees for the Ghana Music Awards 2010 are out and Sarkodie, Ayigbe Edem, Wutah, 4x4, Bradez, Becca, Ohemaa Mercy and Obrafour lead the number of nominations for the awards ceremony slated for April 10. Music fans have asked many questions about them and asked why artistes like Samini, Ofori Amponsah and Kwabena Kwabena missed out. CharterHouse, the organizers, released a press statement responding to various criticisms as well. In this post, I'll offer thoughts on who should win or who would win when the winners are announced next month.

You can click the songs and artistes below to learn more about them.

Sarkodie, Ayigbe Edem, Wutah, 4x4, Bradez, Becca, Ohemaa Mercy and Obrafour lead the number of nominations for the Ghana Music Awards slated for April 10. You can click the songs and artistes below to learn more about them.

Ameyaw Debrah reports - The nominees for the 11th Annual Ghana Music Awards were announced last night at an event that brought together industry players, keen to know who gets nominated for what in the foremost award for music in the country. The well attended event that saw performances from the likes of Kwabena Kwabena, Gyedu Blay Ambolley, Celestine Donkor, Ohemaa Mercy and Wutah ended with the big reveal of nominees. Sarkodie, touted as the fastest rapper in Ghana led the pack with 8 nominations plus one for his collaboration with Ayigbe Edem and Kwaw Kesse on ‘You dey Craze’. Edem also had 6 other nominations with Wutah following with 5 plus a nod for best male vocal performance for PV, one half of the duo. 4x4 and Bradez both had 5 tallies.

Here is there complete list of nominees:

Artist of the year
4x4
Wutah
Ohemaa Mercy
Sarkodie
Becca
Bradez

I've known Eli Jacobs-Fantauzzi for a long time since he started working on this documentary on Hiplife. Made a couple of trips to his place to help him with some Twi translations, etc, that was fun. The much anticipated documentary, HomeGrown: HipLife in Ghana, is finally out and it is on tour. The documentary follows the career of arguably Ghana's most famous hiplife musicians, VIP. It starts as early as the time they are underground. Eli had been living in Ghana the whole time and has a lot of exclusive footage. You can't miss this. Catch it one of these days.

HomeGrown: HipLife in Ghana is a feature-length documentary about the Ghanaian HipLife group V.I.P. (Vision In Progress), and the film documents ten years of their journey from the ghetto in Accra to their first international tour. They grow from being teenagers with a shared dream to musicians with fans around the wor...ld.