African musicians bag nominations for ISC People’s Voice awards

The awards are part of the annual contest, provides aspiring and established songwriters with the opportunity to get their songs heard by influential decision makers in the music industry. During the 2020 call for entries, the organisers received more than 26 000 entries across 23 categories.

The nominees include Baaba Maal (Senegal), who received a nod in the World Music category alongside Dibdiamond (Mauritania), Cecile Kayirebwa (Rwanda), Richie Lumambo (Tanzania) and Zubi & Anatu (Nigeria).

Nigerian hip hop duo T2 Tizzle and Zimbabwean rapper McKurry have been nominated in the R&B/Hip Hop category. DAP The Contract from Nigeria got a nod in the Music Video category, while Aurelina from Ghana was named in the Lyrics Only category. South African singer Connell Cruise was nominated in the Performance category.

Other nominees are Tarrah (Nigeria), Pedro Barbosa (South Africa) and Bahjat Etorjman (Libya), who were nominated in the Fork/Singer-Songwriter, Latin Music and Pop Top 40 categories, respectively.

The nominee with the most votes across all categories will be named the winner and receive a free single or album release provided by TuneCore, a pair of LCD-1 headphones from Audeze and a Notion app provided by PreSonus, among other prizes.

The public has until 7 April to vote for their favourite acts here.

“You may only vote once per day per unique email address,” the ISC said. “The song with the most public votes will be the People’s Voice winner, which is in addition to and separate from the regular winners selected by ISC’s judge panel.”

The winners will be announced in April or May.