Koby Maxwell's 'African Lady' music video wins Indie Music award in Hollywood

US-based Ghanaian multiple artist Koby Maxwell has won the Best Special Video award of the 2018 Indie Music Channel Awards (IMCA) that was held in the United States (US), California, from April 21-22, 2018.

Music video of Koby Maxwell's song “African Lady”, on which he featured Wizboyy Ofuasia, received the award at the 5th edition of the IMCA at the Hard Rock Cafe in Hollywood, California, for Best Special Video costing over $5,000.

Award-winning composer and pianist Danaë Xanthe Vlasse of Winnetka in California won Best Special Video award in that cost under $5,000 for her work titled "Swansong". Indie Music Channel, organizers of the IMCA was created by Christopher Ewing who is an Emmy Award-winning TV host, actor & model. His creation was based on the need to raise support for US-based indie artists and their music.

Wizboyy is a Nigerian Musician and Producer of urban highlife and Afropop songs under the record label No-Tyme Records. The music video for "African Lady" according to Koby Maxwell was shot in the Northern Region of Ghana because they wanted to portray authentic scenery that is normally not seen in mainstream media about Ghana elsewhere.

Koby Maxwell said, "we felt it was very important to show the world Ghana and Africa in the most pristine form as a way of promoting the culture."

Released in 2017 and published on YouTube in March of that year by Koby Maxwell Productions, the music video has won acclaim among Ghanaians and Nigerians living in the Diaspora as well as Africans all over Koby Maxwell acknowledged, "Wizboyy, myself, our respective teams and all who pushed this video to this award, are really grateful for the massive support. It only motivates us to do more and better soon."