Budding Singer Jailed For Armed Robbery

2010-01-28 18:44

William Ramzy Amui aka Ramzy, first runner-up in the first edition of music reality show, Stars of the Future was last Monday sentenced to a 10-year imprisonment with hard labour by the Tema High court presided over by Justice Peter Offei. Ramzy and eight others pleaded guilty to charges of conspiracy, ...

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Van Vicker and Nadia escape death in Hai

2010-01-28 06:54

Van Vicker and Nadia Buari escaped the catastrophic earthquake that hit Haiti on 12 January 2010 when the two failed to honour their plans to shoot in the devastated Caribbean country. According to Van, it was due to their busy schedules that changed the traveling dates as they would have ...

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The Return Of VIP

2010-01-28 06:19

THE MEMBERS of Vision In Progress (VIP) can be described as Ghana's leading artistes, after releasing hit after hit over the years. They are adored by numerous fans worldwide and have established themselves as icons in the Ghanaian and African music industries. The group, which has carved a niche for itself, has ...

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“Castro’s Brother Threatened To Beat Me”

2010-01-28 06:09

A YOUNG photo journalist, Ekow Anderson, who was nearly lynched during the secret wedding of one of Ghana’s hiplife artistes, Theophilus Tagoe, known professionally as Castro, confirmed to BEATWAVES on Monday that Castro and his family threatened to lynch him when he was spotted taking pictures of the couples. The incident ...

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Life is rough and smooth

2010-01-28 05:44

In a year when pundits fumed over what appeared as a takeover of GH music by emcees from next-door Naija, it took more or less of a word rumoured to be over-browbeaten to put the breaks on the Naija boys putting them in check. Little did Bullet and Akan, pronounced ...

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Blakk Rasta to go on Rastafarian pilgrim

2010-01-28 05:37

Ghana’s reggae superstar Blakk Rasta will be one of the headline acts at the forthcoming reggae festival in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The festival, which comes off on the 6th of February, commemorates the birth of the reggae legend, Bob Marley. Blakk Rasta is scheduled to present two speeches on pan africanism ...

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Samini Goes To School In UK

2010-01-28 04:09

Ghana’s rising Afro-Raggae star and reigning best performer in Africa Emmanuel Samini simply known as Samini is gone back to School. Samini has now enrolled at the Point Blank Music College in London to expand his musical horizon. He left the shores of Ghana on Wednesday January 14 to begin intensive ...

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Ghana Music Awards Festival returns

2010-01-27 07:22

The Ghana music industry will be buzzing with excitement once again as Charterhouse, event organisers of the annual Ghana Music Awards Festival, begins working with stakeholders in the industry towards instituting the 2010 edition. Stakeholders are thus encouraged to send in entries of songs and albums that were released during the ...

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Venus Hits Premiere Scene Again

2010-01-27 07:10

BARELY A week after the controversial movie producer of Movie Africa Productions, Socrate Sarfo, said premiering movies in Ghana is a waste of resources, Venus Films is on the move to keep the fire burning to prove critics wrong. Venus Films, which has contributed to the rise of big names ...

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Ghanaian artist sing in sipport of Haiti

2010-01-27 06:22

Alliance Francaise was on Saturday night jam-packed with music lovers who thronged the place for a ‘Solidarity Concert for Haiti’ organised by Creative Storm. The concert, Haiti – Ghana Response, saw some of the big names in Ghanaian showbiz performing for free to raise funds for worried Haiti. Blakk Rasta, Wanlov Kuborlor, ...

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