Liberia set to host music awards

Voting for the awards took place from 3 to 30 January, with 50% of the final result contributed by fans. The other half will be made up by a selected panel of judges.

The event is organised by the Tunes Liberia website, which was established in 2015 by tech entrepreneur Elvis Juasemai.

“I realised how popular Liberian music had become,” Juasemai told the Liberian Observer. “But despite the growing demand, I could hardly find them on the Internet, which severely limited their reach.

“We were trying to solve the massive problem of lack of access to Liberian music and lack of digitalisation for the music’s record keeping, situations in my mind that devalued musicians and their music.

“But the thing has gradually changed since Tunes Liberia was established because no matter your location, you can easily access Liberians music.”

The awards' organising team said: “Nominees were selected based on hard work and consistency through the year and your tireless contributions to the growth of the Liberian music industry. The selection was based highly on merit rather personal friendship or any kind of preference.”

The Tunes Liberia Music Awards will take place at Centennial Pavilion in Monrovia.

Below is the list of nominees:

Best Artist of the Year

• Teddyride
• Bucky Raw
• DenG
• Shine P
• Kobazzie
• Christoph
• CIC
• Kizzy W

Video of the Year

• DenG feat. KCee – Make Dem Talk
• Kizzy W feat. Guru – Ouu Baby
• PCK & L’Frankie – Success
• Flex feat. Akon – Holy Ghost
• Soulfresh – Don’t Put Me There
• Quincy B feat. Sweetz – My Pledge

Song of the Year

• Deng – Grateful
• Kobazzie feat. CIC – Drinks on Me
• C-Jay – Boss Chick
• AG Da Profit – Zico
• Revoluxon feat. Christoph – i Vex
• CIC feat Casimoney – Brother
• Teddyride feat. Christoph – Let me hear
• Shine P – Mind Ur Baynay
• Quincy B feat. Sweetz – My Pledge

Best International Artist

• Jon Bricks
• Bucky Raw
• ConCCoins
• AG Da profit
• Flex
• J-Lee

Best Video Director

• Jackie Russ
• A.Fo4doe
• Lorenzo Loveland
• Padmore Paasewe

Traditional/Gbema Artist

• Too Much
• Killer Beatz
• Casi Money
• Benji Cavalli
• Mz Menneh

Record Label of the Year

• Bilikon ENT.
• SOG Records
• Naymo Records
• MEMG
• Swag District ENT.
• Floyd Nation

Best Online/Radio Personality

• O’neal Robert
• Martina Brooks
• Rickslyn Myers
• Master Queen
• Berenice Mulubah
• DJ AsAboy

Best Hipco Artist

• Young Zee
• Margas
• Mr. Smith
• Chiller Coolnanee
• Christoph
• Lil Beshop
• JB (Soulfresh)

Best Gospel Artist

• Sayon Mason
• Anitram
• King Bryan
• Bernice Blackie
• Moses Swaray

Best Reggae/DanceHall Artist

• AK Feeling Man
• NasseMan
• Ne-oh William
• Shatta Capone
• BS2 BeenieKing

Best Group of the Year

• Just-2
• PCK & L’Frankie
• 2In1
• 2 Win
• SoulFresh

Best DJ of the Year

• DJ Spesh
• DJ Nelly
• DJ Theo
• DJ Magrady
• DJ Weezy
• DJ’s Don

Best Comedian of the Year

• King Sokoloko
• Paul Flomo
• Wedigar
• Angel Michael
• John Flomo

Best Hip Hop Artist

• C-Note
• CO.Z
• Tito Gee
• Speedo’o
• Scientific
• Geno

Best Afro-pop Artist

• Kobazzie
• EricGeso
• D’Ameko
• Kizzy W
• Feouls
• CIC
• Teddyride
• DenG

Best TrapCo Artist

• Bucky Raw
• Nuchie Meek
• Young Sotee
• Revoluxon
• Venny
• Shine P

Best Producer of the Year

• Genius
• Stone LuckShine
• Rawlo
• Killer Beatz
• Kizzy W
• D12
• CharlieGOLD
• Yung Cutter

Best Female Artist

• Faithvonic
• sweetz
• Pillz
• J.Glo
• Mai Myers
• Da Vero

Best New Artist

• C-Jay
• AceCape
• Revoluxon
• Pascal
• Stunna
• JaRedo
• Kpanto