SPOTLIGHT ON GHANA HAUSA MUSIC AWARDS – GH AREWA EMPIRE
The New Trust Newspaper Online focuses on a group of Ghana movies, music and culture from the Asokore Mampong Municipality (Ashanti Region) aimed to create an atmosphere to explore Hausa northern Musician in Ghana to be able to uplift the spirit in the music industry.
The group intends through the competition to access the ability of the musicians in the Country.
The leadership of the group said “in order to accomplish this goal, we need a platform where the industry is able to respectfully engage in thoughtful discourse since Civil discourse is necessary in maintaining a healthy democracy and we believe that with this grant we can foster an environment of respectful competition among the Hausa Musicians.
In a proposed letter to Ghana Musician Association,the group said “this proposal is characterized by our overall aim to increase civic awareness, Education and engagement. As educated youth within the industry, we see a growing need for an atmosphere where topical issues can be discussed and debated openly, in an effort to promote a more complex understanding of issues involving many perspectives”.
Sanusi Abdul Mujeeb
Director – GH Arewa Empire,said the competition has been in existence since 2019 and it came to a halt late 2020 due to Covid-19 Pandemic protocols set out by the Government of Ghana.
“This was organized by the director of the then National Service Personnel President Asokore Mampong Municipal Assembly ,H.E Umar Abdul Aziz Abdullah regime..
The youth led organization formally registered under the Registrar General Department consists of youth from Asokore Mampong Municipality named GH Arewa Empire has decided to reinstate this initiative and make it an annual program as a form of an extra-curricular activity for the Hausa Musicians and Actors in our industry.
We have decided to operate with an emphasis on capturing an environment in which Hausa Musicians and Actors can discuss and respectfully debate on national issues and important issues in order to strengthen their understanding of topical issues in music and the perspective involved. We are imbedding to work to open our doors to anyone interested in discussing important issues, regardless of whether they are actively part of us or not, in order to achieve the most nuanced conversation if possible. With this record, we seek to expand our impact and utilize more resources in order to promote a bigger and more integrated cause in the industry”.
STATEMENT OF NEED
There is a very void in the Hausa and Northern Music, and the industry as a whole, of an open forum that provides individuals the opportunity to show their talent regardless of their background. We aim at forming a strong team award within all the participants and help motivates, train and guide them to improve their knowledge and skills in industry. This club will be a great asset for music, movie and northern culture.
GOAL
We seek to provide Hausa and Northern Musicians with a supportive forum for understanding ideas that may not initially agree with, and examining their own opinions with input from others. The goal is to ensure that musicians in the industry start right, point out the role of education in music career, expose Hausa and Northern Musicians to basic of showbusiness.
OBJECTIVES
We want to develop a community that is engaged in civic duty. This helps create responsible citizens, analyzers, decision makers and voters of the future.
SUSTAINABILITY
Having a platform is very important to be able to provide information to others. Once we have this platform, we and the musicians and actors who will win will be able to continue to encourage an open discussion between one another and also organize this same program annually.
POTENTIAL PITFALLS/LIMITATIONS
One potential setback maybe about finance, lack of interest by some leaders and lack of interest from musicians. Some may not readily sign up for what we want to do. This can be countered by reaching out to the players in the industry, to ensure that the first impression is in our control and as positive as possible.
FORMS OF AWARD: PREPARED AND IMPROMPTU AWARDS
In prepared awards, the categories are announced to tournament participants anywhere between weeks and a couple of months in advance. Participants have time to campaign on the category award.
In impromptu award, contesting participants receive the category in few weeks ahead of the competition. Here, the skill is to rely on one’s own or it managing team. However, the participants are allowed few mistakes in the preparation.
THE MUSICIANS AND ACTORS OR PARTICIPANT
At the frontend you have the participants, also called nominees. It is pretty obvious what their task is. A participant has to prove their worth in the categories of style, lyrics, content and strategy, which are the four components of the decision-making process in the GHAEMA format.
THE JUDGES
There are minimum of three, and always an uneven number of impartial judges or adjudicators in the award competition.
They watch the video of the participants or listen to their music in each category and have to assess to what extent the teams have performed their respective roles as either in terms of style, content and strategy, whether the timing was alright and whether enough it fit the category had been exchanged.Judges fill in a mark sheet, come to an individual decision, leave the mark sheet in the room and meet the other judges outside the competition.
There, they exchange and discuss their decisions,based on which observations they have made.
The Chief Adjudicator or chairperson announces the result of the competition.
This should be avoided at all costs. Feedback should be constructive, objective and not meant to make participant/musicians feel bad about themselves. More on judging later.
THE AUDIENCE
It’s always nicer for the musicians, actors or participant not only to speak to the judges and team mates, but to an audience as well. If there is competition ongoing, you might want to advertise it on a wider scale to encourage outside visitors to attend the program. The audience can also cast their vote in support to make you stand upright among your category.
JUDGING
Before talking about the tasks of a judge, or adjudicator, one must know that nobody is born a judge, but that virtually anyone with good enough music and art and the will power to do so can become one. Very much like awards, judging, unfortunately, can only be learned on a step-by step basis.
Becoming confident in the practice of adjudicating will gradually develop by sitting through competition judges’ briefings and gathering experience as a shadow judge, who is allowed to participate in the discussion, but whose decision doesn’t count. Inexperienced judges will get their chance possibly two or three rounds into any competition to judge as a third of three judges.
It can’t be avoided to be thrown in at the deep end at some point, but once that has happened, people usually catch on quite fast.Simply put, no two judges observe the exact same things in a competition.
Everyone has a different approach, expectation and perspective on it, which is why there are always an odd number of judges in the room (usually three in preliminary rounds and respectively 5, 7, 9, maybe even 11 judges in the knock-out final rounds) to allow a majority decision in any case.What will be expected from everybody, however, is that the decision you make can be justified reasonably. Why giving it to one team rather than the other may come down to only one aspect of the competition.
Why this aspect is crucial enough to give the competition to either of the teams/participants is a question you will have to answer satisfactorily.
THE MARKING STANDARD
The categories in which marks are allocated are style, lyrics, content and strategy.
A maximum of 30 points can be allocated to all the four expectations, whereas the public/audience votes take 70 points to make it 100 points before one can stand a chance of winning the award.
However, the range in which marks are given almost never go below 60 or over 80 in substantive category.
An average mark that fulfills all the requirements, and receives the quality “good”has 70 points.
An overwhelmingly good speech at GMA final rounds receives about 77 or 78 points.
GH AREWA EMPIRE MUSIC AND FLIMS AWARD 2023 MARK SHEET
Style:
Lyrics:
Contents: Votes:
strategy:
Judge:
PREPARING AN AWARD AREAS OF COMPETITION (SPERM MODEL)
ARTISTE OF THE YEAR
BEST HIPLIFE/HIP POP
ARTISTE OF THE YEAR
BEST HIPLIFE ARTISTE
BEST REGGEA/DANCE HALL ARTISTE
BEST ZIKRI ARTISTE
AFROBEATS/AFROPOP ARTISTE
BEST NEW ARTISTE OF THE YEAR
COLLABORATION OF THE YEAR
BEST HIPLIFE SONG
BEST HIGHLIFE SONG
BEST ACTRESS OF THE YEAR
BEST ACTOR OF THE YEAR
BEST ZIKRI SONG
BEST COMEDIAN
BEST RAPPER PERFORMANCE OF THE YEAR
HAUSA MOST POPULAR SONG OF THE YEAR
ALBUM OF THE YEAR
EP OF THE YEAR
BEST MALE VOCAL OF THE YEAR
BEST FEMALE VOCAL OF THE YEAR
BEST MUSIC VIDEO OF THE YEAR
SONGWRITER OF THE YEAR
RECORD OF THE YEAR
MUSIC PRODUCER OF THE YEAR
BEST INSTRUMENTALIST OF THE YEAR
BEST MOVIE DIRECTOR OF THE YEAR
BEST AREWA MOVIE OF THE YEAR
AREWA POPULAR SONG OF THE YEAR
