Namibia Music Awards 2008

The Namibia Music Awards -2008
Saturday 3^rd May, Ongwediva Town

Sponsored by Cell One-my network, my choice

The Namibia Music Awards or NMA was established in order to create and provide a suitable musical entertainment and promotional platform for Namibian musicians, music producers, whilst offering the public at large great rhythmatic sounds under one roof. NMA’s main objective is to award the various musicians nominated by the public and the media under the different supplied categories fairly so that each unique artist’s talent is recognized and appreciated. The NMA ceremony also provides the opportunity for well known as well as up and coming musicians to perform during the ceremony in order to entertain the crowd.

The Namibia Music Awards ceremony is a unique event because of its ableness in providing transparent, truthful, objective and fair award to the Namibian musicians.  NMA recognizes all Namibian musicians from the ages of 16 years old and above to be nominated by the public and the media in order to stand a chance of being awarded one of the many awards in their respective categories. The NMA event is also a tool of promoting Namibian music to the African continent as well as to the rest of the world. It is a ceremony of joy and happiness because it allows all people young and old to be together at one stand and celebrate Namibian music.

The Namibia Music Awards ceremony has a great number of categories that were identified with the purpose to catering for most Namibian musicians who continue to explore the music industry in search of variety, uniqueness and sweet melodies with the opportunity of being appreciated and recognised. Many musicians have suffered and are suffering a great deal, because the music industry is a very tough and competitive platform. At times it requires one to have patience, to work whilst others are sleeping, have discipline and respect, bypass pride, it requires you to stand tall; be true to yourself and believe that in the end your dream will eventually prosper.

2008 has seen the organizers utilize different strategies for the Namibia Music Awards. For the first time in the history of Namibia, the Namibia Music Awards will provide the public with the opportunity to nominate the musicians under his or her category.

The public will have to sms an artist name, song, and category to 8555. For example ‘Selma baby be mine reggae’ and sms this text to 8555. The nomination process will start Friday 15^th February 2008 until 20^th March 2008. You are allowed to nominate and vote for your favorite musician as many times as possible.

After nomination:
·         the independent accounting body will screen and place the 3 best nominees under the respective category.
·         This information will than be communicated to the public so that they begin with the voting process
·         Voting will start on the 2^nd April 2008.
·         To vote all you have to do is sms artist code and number to 8555 such as ‘BTR 1’ (which stands for Best Tradition number 1).
·         Voting and nomination will be done via various medium such as you can use Cell One and any other means of available communication as long as you sms nomination and voting choice to 8555, you could also fax to 061-239069 or log on to www.entertainmentnamibia.com for more information.
·         When you nominate and vote using Cell One you stand a chance of winning 10 VIP tickets and 1 Nokia cell phone.

After the voting process:
·        Voting will begin on 2^nd April 2008 and ends on 30^th April 2008
·        The independent accounting body will confirm the results
·        The independent accounting body will hand over these results in sealed envelopes on the night of 3^rd May 2008

NB: Any musician who which to perform at this glamorous event in order to promote himself and his music, kindly contact Namvula at 085 561 0597 or log on to www.entertainmentnamibia.com

The website is www.entertainmentnamibia.com, which will promote Namibian creative entities, work of art and entertainment shows to you including the biggest entertainment ceremony: the Namibia Music Awards.

Cell One road to fame: The show was created in 2007 by Cell One in order to search for knew talent in the field of music. The show travels to all parts of Namibia searching for the One with all needed qualities of a STAR. For more information, contact Cell One at 061-382000

IA MUSIC AWARDS – 3RD MAY 2008 – WINNERS