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Ghanaian Rapper Michael Owusu better known as Sarkodie last Sunday at the 2014 Headies award won Best African Artist of the Year while Patoranking becomes the proud owner of a Hyundai 4×4 after winning the Next Rated category.
Patoranking the buzzing dancehall act dominated most of the event as the music act went home with three awards. His first award was for his collaborative effort on’Emergency’. The hit single earned him the Best Collabo award alongside WizzyPro, Skales and Runtown.
His second award was the Best Reggae /Dancehall category for his hit single ‘Patoranking’. His biggest award of the night was when he clinched the Next Rated award category. In a moving speech the artiste recollected his humble beginnings when he sold rat poisons and worked on at construction sites.
Mavin boss Don Jazzy also went home with two awards. He and his crew won the ‘Best Pop Single’ award. Later in the night, he won the major award, Producer of the Year. Fellow Mavin act Reekado Banks went home with two awards two, Best Pop Single and Rookie of the Year.
List of Winners:
Best R&B Single – Let Somebody Love You by 2face Idibia.
Best Pop Single – Dorobucci by The Mavins
Best Rap Single – Parcel by Phyno
Best Street Hop – Double Wahala by Oritsefemi
Best Vocal Performance (Male) – Iyawo Mi by Timi Dakolo
Best R&B/Pop Album – The Journey by Sean Tizzle
Best Vocal Performance (Female) – Love To Love You by Niyola.
Best Rap Album – Baddest Guy Ever Liveth by Olamide.
Best Reggae/Dancehall – Girlie O by Patoranking
Best Collabo – Emergency by WizzyPro featuring Skales, Runtown and Patoranking
Best Recording of the Year – Ordinary People by Cobhams Asuquo
Best Alternative Song – Bolaji by BOJ.
Producer of the Year: Don Jazzy
Lyricist on the Roll: Jesse Jagz
Next Rated: Patoranking
Hall of Fame:Sir Victor Uwaifo
African Artiste of the Year – Sarkodie
Rookie of the Year: Reekado Banks
Best Music Video: Ada Ada (Flavour) by Clarence Peters
Song of the Year: Aye by Davido
Album of the Year: Baddest Guy Ever Liveth by Olamide.
Artiste of the Year: Davido.
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![[Nigeria] How we made our first N1million – P-Square](https://dancehallafrica.com/wp-content/uploads/33411254.295.jpg)

Peter and Paul Okoye of Psquare, winners of the Special recognition award at the just concluded Headies awards, which was held at the Eko hotel and suites, Lagos have revealed how it took them years to save their first million naira.
Just before they were given their awards, the twin brothers who wowed the audience with a rendition of their old tracks, at the annual music and video awards, revealed the other side of them that fans did not know.
“While we were living in Jos, we lived with our uncle and he gave us – Jude, Paul and Peter just one room to share. It wasn’t easy, we were squatting with a large family.
“Somehow, we came to Lagos and after selling our stuffs, we were able to rent a one-room apartment and you know we had no chairs but we did not care. All we were after was how to market our music…..eventually money started coming in but it was small, very small. For a while, we were angry that our names were being mentioned everywhere and peeps would see us to say, ‘I just saw your music on MTV base”, meanwhile we had no TV to even watch the MTV base in our house”.
On their first one million naira, they said “The first time we had one million naira we celebrated it. For a long while, all we could save was N850,000 and it was paining us. One day however, we went for a concert and right there we were paid N150,000, then it was big money. We immediately added it to the N850,000 and voila, we had N1million. We bought drinks to celebrate, we were glad that we were now millionaires”.
“To the upcoming artiste, you don’t make money immediately, it’s like you are investing in music and would reap later on”.
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Tanzanian artiste, Diamond and South Africa’s Cassper Nyovest emerged the biggest winners at the just concluded 2014 Channel O Music Awards held in Johannesburg, South Africa on Saturday night
Both acts won 3 awards while Nigeria’s Davido, missed out on all the categories he was nominated for.
While Cassper Nyovest won “Most Gifted Male”, Most Gifted Southern” and “Most Gifted Video Of The Year, Diamond won “Most Gifted Newcomer,” “Most Gifted Afro Pop” and “Most Gifted East”.
Mavin records’ singer Tiwa Savage won “most gifted female” as 5 Star records’ lead act, KCee, won the “Most Gifted Duo, Group Or Featuring” category for his song, Pull over featuring Wizkid.
Rapper, Olamide emerged “Most Gifted West” for his hit song, “Turn up”.
Meanwhile, ace music producer, Donjazzy, disagreed with the organizers of the award on the winner of “Most Gifted Video of The Year” won by Cassper Nyovest.
The Mavin boss said Davido, who obviously is having a good year, should have won the award for his “Aye” video.
“My most gifted video award is Aye by Davido sha. #MyOpinion. He definitely owned 2014. #Okbye” he tweeted via his twitter handle, @DONJAZZY.
See full winners list below:
MOST GIFTED MALE CASSPER NYOVEST – DOC SHEBELEZA*** Winner DAVIDO – AYE RIKY RICK FT OKMALUMKOOLKAT – AMANTOMBAZANE K.O. FT KID X – CARACARA SARKODIE – ILLUMINATI
MOST GIFTED FEMALE THEMBI SEETE – THUNTSHA LEROLE BUCIE FT HEAVY K – EASY TO LOVE LIZHA JAMES FT UHURU – QUEM TI MANDOU TIWA SAVAGE FT DON JAZZY – EMINADO** Winner SEYI SHAY – IRAWO
MOST GIFTED NEWCOMER DREAM TEAM FT TAMARSHA, AKA & BIG NUZ – TSEKEDE CASSPER NYOVEST – DOC SHEBELEZA EMMY GEE FT AB CRAZY & DJ DIMPLEZ – RANDS AND NAIRAS DIAMOND – NUMBER ONE** Winner PATORANKING – GIRLIE O (REMIX)
MOST GIFTED DUO, GROUP OR FEATURING
UHURU FT OSKIDO & PROFESSOR – Y-TJUKUTJA DJ CLOCK FT BEATENBERG – PLUTO (I REMEMBER) R2BEES FT WIZKID – SLOW DOWN K.O. FT KID X – CARACARA KCEE FT WIZKID – PULL OVER** Winner
MOST GIFTED DANCE UHURU FT OSKIDO & PROFESSOR – Y-TJUKUTJA DAVIDO – SKELEWU DJ CLOCK FT BEATENBERG – PLUTO (I REMEMBER) P SQUARE – PERSONALLY BUSISWA FT VARIOUS – NGOKU** Winner
MOST GIFTED RAGGA DANCEHALL BUFFALO SOULJAH – BASAWINE** Winner OREZI – RIHANNA JESSE JAGGZ FEAT WIZKID – BAD GIRL PATORANKING – GIRLIE O (REMIX) SHATTA WALE – EVERYDOBY LIKES MY TING
MOST GIFTED AFRO POP DAVIDO – AYE MAFIKIZOLO FT MAY D – HAPPINESS DIAMOND – NUMBER ONE** Winner FLAVOUR ADA ADA IYANYA – JOMBOLO
MOST GIFTED KWAITO UHURU FT OSKIDO & PROFESSOR – Y-TJUKUTJA** Winner CHARACTER FT MONO T & OSKIDO – INXEBA LENDODA BIG NUZ FT KHAYA MTHETHWA – INCWADI YOTHANDO DJ VETKUK VS MAHOOTA – KHABA LENJA DJ CNDO – YAMNANDI INTO
MOST GIFTED R&B 2FACE FT T PAIN – RAINBOW JIMMY NEVIS FT KWESTA – BALLOON GB COLLECTIVE FT BRIAN TEMBA & REASON – CHOCOLATE VANILLA DONALD – CRAZY BUT AMAZING** Winner NIYOLA – TOH BAD
MOST GIFTED HIP HOP CASSPER NYOVEST – DOC SHEBELEZA KHULI CHANA FT DA L.E.S & MAGESH – HAPE LE HAPE 2.1 PHYNO – ALOBAM K.O. FT KID X – CARACARA AKA – CONGRATULATE** Winner
MOST GIFTED SOUTHERN DJ CLOCK FT BEATENBERG – PLUTO (I REMEMBER) CASSPER NYOVEST – DOC SHEBELEZA** Winner AKA – CONGRATULATE ZEUS – PSYCH K.O. FT KID X – CARACARA
MOST GIFTED WEST R2BEES FT WIZKID – SLOW DOWN DAVIDO – AYE BURNA BOY FT D’BANJ – WON DA MO OLAMIDE – TURN UP** Winner DR SID FT DON JAZZY – SURULERE
MOST GIFTED EAST SAUTI SOL – NSHIKE DIAMOND – NUMBER ONE** Winner NAVIO – NO HOLDING BACK EDDY KENZO – SITYA LOSS ELANI – KOOKOO
MOST GIFTED VIDEO OF THE YEAR EMMY GEE FT AB CRAZY & DJ DIMPLEZ – RANDS AND NAIRAS DAVIDO – AYE K.O. FT KID X – CARACARA BURNA BOY – RUN MY RACE TIWA SAVAGE FT DON JAZZY – EMINADO DR SID FT DON JAZZY – SURULERE RIKY RICK FT OKMALUMKOOLKAT – AMANTOMBAZANE CASSPER NYOVEST – DOC SHEBELEZA** Winner SARKODIE – ILLUMINATI DJ CLOCK FT BEATENBERG – PLUTO (I REMEMBER) AKA – CONGRATULATE DIAMOND – NUMBER ONE

Nigerian reggae-dancehall star Burnaboy touched down at Entebbe International Airport aboard a Kenya Airways flight in the wee hours of Friday on his first ever trip to Uganda.
The West African musician is in the country to take part in the Club Mega Fest scheduled to take place at Mandela national stadium (Namboole) on Saturday.
Popular for hits like “Yawa Dey” “Run MY Race” and “Wombolombo”, Burnaboy will feature on same stage as American superstar Shaggy, South Africa’s Mafikizolo and Jamaican legend Patra.
The dancehall sensation, whose real names are Damini Ogulu, arrived emerged from the Arrivals section at Entebbe airport clad in a black T-shirt and black shorts, all matched with a black hoodie teamed with long white socks.
He immediately promised to live up to his fans’ expectations on Saturday.
“I am looking forward to performing at the Club Mega Fest because this is my first time in Uganda. I’ve also been told about the good girls here. I can’t wait!”
More international acts are expected to arrive in the country ahead of the hyped show as the buildup to the event – dubbed the biggest music festival Uganda has seen – reaches its climax.