Dancehall artiste, MzVee has been nominated for the 2016
Black Entertainment Television (BET) Awards.
MzVee, born Vera Hamenoo-Kpeda, received a nod in the
Best International Act (Africa) category of the awards.
MzVee’s nomination has got many people shocked, bringing
the competence of ghana’s BET reps into question.
According to BET nomination process, “There is a voting
academy made up of about 500 people from the music
industry, media, and bloggers. BET sends out ballots
electronically and voters nominate, in all the different
categories, who they think should be award nominees. These
are collated by a group called “Yangaroo” that works on other
awards shows as well, and they narrow it to the top five
nominees, and send that list back out to the academy to vote
on the winner”.
Sarkodie, Shatta Wale, Stonebwoy, EL, Efya…… The list of
artistes worthier of BET’s recognition is long. Yet they chose
to go for the least common denominator.
One is left to wonder if the BET award for The International
best African Act should be taken seriously at all.
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