Outspoken Radio Presenter Blakk Rasta who seems to court controversy every now and then, has sought to set the record straight following...
...the entertainment uproar he generated regarding a statement he made about this year’s Kora All Africa Music Awards on his radio programme and other media outlets.
Blakk Rasta, who brought to the fore some discrepancies that he claimed occurred during the awards ceremony which took place in Burkina Faso, told peacefmonline that he never said Shasha Marley did not win any award.
According to him, he wanted Ghanaians to know that two personalities won the same award, something nobody was aware of in Ghana, because “Shasha Marley was not brave enough to tell Ghanaians that it was a tie and he co-shared the award with someone else”.
“Shasha kept denying that there was another winner, until King Wadada stated on my programme that they both won the same award. That was when Shasha, had no option than to tell the truth," Blakk Rasta.
It will be recalled that Blakk Rasta stated on his “Taxi Driver” programme on Hits FM that Shasha Marley had deceived Ghanaians because he (Shasha Marley) won an award for a different category and not the “Reggae Artiste of year” as earlier claimed.
According to the Hitz FM Reggae presenter, it was rather a Nigerian Reggae Star, King Wadaada, who won the “Reggae Artiste of the year.
He admitted that in the initial stages when he first broke the news on his program, he did say that Shasha won the “Best Male Vocal Performance” award but upon further investigation and research, he realized that the “Reggae Artiste of the year’ was a shared award between Shasha Marley and King Wadaada.
Rasta said he watched a video on YouTube and saw only King Wadada being conferred with that award and all foreign entertainment websites reported that Wadada was the King of African Music.
“There was nothing on Shasha Marley it was only the Ghanaian websites who reported on Shasha. So it was as if Shasha was lying to Ghanaians until my investigation proved otherwise,” Blakk Rasta added.
The ‘Barack Obama’ singer said Shasha Marley and King Wadaada spoke on Hits FM and they both acknowledged on air that it was a shared award.
He told peacefmonline that the Kora Award official, Victoria Nkong, who also doubles as the Personal Assistant to the Kora Award boss and Line Producer of Kora Awards 2010, and who spoke on Peace Fm’s “Entertainment Review”, only came "to add her voice" to what he (Blakk Rasta) had already said on his radio programme.
A similar incident occurred a few weeks ago at the Africa Movie Academy Awards 2010, when three Ghanaian actresses Jackie Appiah, Lydia Forson and Naa Ashorkor Mensah-Doku all won the same award, “Best Actress Performance in a Lead Role” and Jackie Appiah was accused of hijacking the award.
