Simon Webbe from BLUE and Genevieve Nnaji who is arguably the biggest actress in Africa have been confirmed to host this year’s O2 African Music Awards, on Friday 15th October at Wembley Arena, London.

Genevieve started her acting career as a child actress in the then popular television soap opera Ripples at the age of 8. In 2004 she became the face of Lux soap in a highly lucra¬tive spon¬sor¬ship deal. In 1998 at the age of 19 she was introduced into the growing Nigerian film industry with the movie “Most Wanted”. Her subsequent movies include Last Party, Mark of the Beast and Ijele.

She has starred in over 80 Nollywood movies. Nnaji has received several awards and nominations for her work, including the Best Actress of the year award at the 2001 City People Awards and the Best Actress in a Leading Role award at the 2005 African Movie Academy Awards. In 2004 she signed a recording contract with EKB Records, a Ghanaian record label, and released her debut album One Logologo Line, a mix of R&B, Hip-Hop and Urban music.

Most Gifted RnB Nominees includes @ToluMide

Where to Vote
http://mva.channelo.tv/nominations/most-gifted-rnb/

To say 2kay, real name Abiye David Jumbo, has had to struggle for his break in the music industry is an understatement. Not that having to fight to get what you want is an alien concept to the newest artise on the Grafton Streetz label.

He grew up in the violent regions of Port Harcourt and it is those experiences that 2kay started writing music about from a very early age. But trying to focus on the music was difficult when he had turmoil in his private life that reflected that going on in his surroundings. At the age of 12 he had to hawk kerosene on the streets to help his struggling mother maintain the family. It is perhaps here that 2kay was able to understand the power of his music as he proved a popular salesman with a selling and singing pitch.

She was not able to perform on the second eviction of the Big Brother All Stars because Big Brother had a surprise for all the former housemates.

GhanaCelebrities.com has been reliably informed that Mimi would be invited to pass through the Big Brother All Stars show. This package is to have all the former houses come on board to feel the all stars show.

However, Nigeria is readily waiting for Mimi as she embarks on her promotional tour to the West African country. The singer who represented Ghana in the Big Brother Africa 3 show will be on her way out of Ghana and her first stop will be Virgin Island, Lagos.
She is set to make appearance in the club ‘REHAB’ to promote her new single ‘Shayo’. She will then make a couple of radio and TV interviews in selected stations.

The Ghana Music Awards 2010 ‘Discovery of the Year’ nominee will head to Abuja a week later. She will again make some appearance, as well as perform in Club Fuzion.

Akon, Dizzee Rascal, Tinchy Stryder, SWAY, K’naan, P Square, Sarkodie, Radio & Weasel, D’Banj, Amr Diab, Tamer Hosny, Alikiba, Black Coffee, are some of the big names nominated to battle for this year’s O2 African Music Awards (AMAs) Statuette.

The AMAs is Europe’s premier annual awards ceremony for African musicians and music makers. The main aim is to achieve mainstream recognition for big selling African artists who have sold millions of records in the African market, yet remain under-exposed to the Western world. Music industry experts have tipped African music to “explode” into the UK market and the AMAs is there to provide a platform that will recognise their achievements annually.

This year’s nominee application broke last year’s record, a total of 2,325 applications were received over the 2 months submission period.

This year’s voting is 100% by the general public via the official O2 African Music Awards’ website http://www.africamusicawards.com/ and SMS. Voting will be activated between 6th September and 10th October. All winners will be announced at the awards on Friday 15th October at Wembley Arena, London.

D-Black da Ghana Bwouy and Kwaku-t , Ghana’s Most celebrated hip-hop duo who have now split up to release solo albums to return in 2012 for another project together have topped the Ghanaian Nominee List at the 2010 Channel O Music Video Awards with 2 nominations ,coming 2nd in total African nominations, coming second to “K’Naan” of the hugely popular Wave your Flag song who leads the pack with 3 nominations.

After being nominated last year for their first video “Move” off their Target Practice Album at the Channel O Music Video Awards in South Africa in the Best West African Video Category, D-Black da Ghana Bwouy and his rap partner ,Kwaku-t went on to be nominated for their second video “Breathe ft. Jay So” at the 2010 Museke African Music Awards for Best African Video , and “Breathe” nominated for Hiphop Song of the year at the 2010 Ghana Music Awards, making them the first English rapping artistes to be nominated in the 11 year history of the Ghana Music Awards Festival which also saw them Win the Coveted Music Video of the Year Award for “Breathe” directed by Gyo Of Phamous Philms at the same award ceremony.

SEPTEMBER
Gal Level's launch on the 3rd September and its expected to the best ever in the country with artists coming from Africa including: Toniks (Uganda), Roberto & General Ozzy(Zambia), Kalahari-ans(Namibia) and many more from south Africa.

Apart from the launch itself, KN256 is lining up it's projects for recording and video shootings.
Money buy me Love-Toniks (Uganda) & Gal Level (Namibia) is to be shot from Namibia by the best producers around the continent according to Ogopa Butterfly Namibia.

Priceless-Toniks (Uganda) & Roberto(Zambia) is to to also be shot from the same country as decided by different african managers by Munyaradzi(Nigeria) and Hasz Media Ent. Africa from Uganda.

From @CPWaa aka Ilunga Khalifa -

Habari ya kazi wakubwa,
Ningependa kuwajulisha mashabiki wangu wote na mashabiki wa muziki wetu wa kizazi kipya kwa ujumla kwamba, Msanii CP a.k.a Cpwaa ( King of Bongocrunk) bado anaendeleza libeneke kupitia mitandao mbalimbali. Kwa sasa unaweza pata historia, maendeleo yake,nyimbo, video na picha za matukio mbalimbali kupitia tovuti yake rasmi ya:

http://www.cpwaa.co.tz/

kupitia tovuti hiyo pia unaweza kujiunga na kutembelea tovuti zake nyingine za myspace,facebook fan page,twitter,youtube na blogsite.

On July 26, 2010, @LiizhaJames announced the birth of Elisa Helena James Mourinho, her first child to her and Mr. Bang, her husband and producer. We join all Lizha's fans to wish her the best as she welcomes a new member to her family.

Some of the Facebook posts on Lizha's wall included "ParaBens pelo n0vo membro da familia, o n0me tem que ser "Elizabang"" and "Parabens Lizha e Bang, tudo de bom para voces e para a bebe. Beijocas". Fans were congratulating her and welcoming a new member to her family and joking her name should be "Elizabang" and wishing the best for her and her baby.

From her latest video, Es Meu, you can see how pregnant Elisa Lisete James Humbane was. The song and video features Brazilian Alcione Dias Nazareth, who is one of the most successful female sambists in Brazil. The video is low key and we don't see Lizha James dancing and moving like she usually does in her high-energy music videos. She was quite reserved in this video as she and Alcione held microphones and sang in a recording session with a live band backing them.

Watch the video

Kenyan based multi-talented producer, DJ and Emcee Madtraxx aka Maddy have signed to Rockstar 4000 Music Entertainment - the African continent’s first Pan African 360 Music & Entertainment Company and Record Label.

The deal with Rockstar 4000 begins this month and will see multi-talented producer, DJ and Emcee Madtraxx in an historic, exclusive worldwide digital distribution deal, having his music made available commercially to a global audience of millions. Rockstar 4000 Music Entertainment, through its exclusive Pan African partnership with Sony Music Entertainment Africa, will distribute Madtraxx’s music and video catalogue to hundreds of digital storefronts worldwide, including major digital music services like iTunes®, Amazon MP3, Napster, eMusic, Rhapsody, Beatport, YouTube, Vevo, Zune, MySpace Music, Spotify, SKY, Juno Download, Boomkat, and Turntable Lab and mobile carriers and outlets such as Verizon Wireless, Sprint, AT&T, T-Mobile and Nokia (to name a few) via Sony’s partnership with the San Francisco-based digital distributor IODA.