Tanzania Music Awards return after six-year hiatus
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- 18 Jan 2022
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Tanzania Music Awards is returning this year (2022) to recognizing and promoting artiste after a six-year hiatus.
Last held in 2015, Tanzania Music Awards - then-known as the ‘Kilimanjaro Music Awards’ or ‘Kili Music Awards’ - have been sorely missed.
Tanzania’s National Arts Council, known by (Basata) is all set and determined to bring back the country’s once upon a time prestigious music awards by end of March, 2022.
Basata says the new edition of the music awards will be totally different but better compared the old days with the last event held in 2015 at Mlimani City.
According to BASATA, this year’s edition will have additional categories specifically created for International artistes.
Speaking to The Beat, organizers Executive Secretary Matiko Mniko hinted that for the first time, Tanzania Music Awards will award international acts from other countries including Kenya, Uganga, Nigeria, South Africa and others just like other country’s music awards.
“In the coming music awards, we are expected to have awards that will features international artistes, as other international awards do such as BET, AFRIMA. So we will have categories specifically for Tanzanian artistes, others for international collaborations and categories for the international artistes only” says Mr Mniko
It is clearly the industry needs these awards, the national art Council is dedicated to bring back the encouragement for the music talents who strives to create good music that entertains and showcase their unrelenting zeal both locally and internationally.
“We will bring international artistes onboard for these awards because it will help us promote the Tanzania Music Awards beyond out boarders and make our music breakthrough to international grounds,” adds Mr Matiko
The council has already created a special committee which is in the final stages of preparing categories including additional ones for international acts.
“The committee which is in the final stage will tell the public details on the voting processes and qualification for artistes’ nominations in each category”, says Matiko.
Six years ago, the Kilimanjaro Music Awards was one of many music centric that doled out awards and provided them equally because artiste were battling to make sure that they participate fully on their music career.
For those who don’t know the history, Tanzania Music awards was introduced in 1999 and they survived for 16 years, but those sixteen year were one of the biggest in entertainment history, because we were able to see how our government supports all the music genres that are produced in our country.
With more than twenty categories, there were a lot of dramas that were quite mouth-watering which accompanied the event, am talking about the speeches that were made and speeches that were created, before the age of social media. Read More…
