The final nominations list for the first annual BASS Awards has been released by the organizer of the Awards.Preceding the release of the nominations, the Awards committee headed by Daddy Bosco had been meeting for three weeks, working to prune down the number to the present list after more than 300 songs were entered for this year’s Awards. Songs that got nominated for the awards this year are reggae/dancehall songs released between 2010 – 2012.Conspicuously missing from the nominations list is Bandana who according to the committee declined to be part of the Awards, he is said to have written on his facebook page declining to be part of the Awards.Two songs from Samini “Papistic” and “Body flame” all featuring Kaakie, were missing from the nominations, these two were disqualified during the shortlisting process due to its sexually explicit lyrics, Daddy Bosco explained, adding that one of the criteria that qualifies a particular song to be nominated is it’s lyrics, “Lyrics must obviously be clean and devoid of swear words, violence and should not be sexually suggestive”.Samini’s other song, Time bomb featuring Nigerian music star Wizkid was however nominated by the committee in three different categories.Bass Awards comes off at the National Theater on 6th July, 2013, preceding that will be a nominees Jam featuring Jamaican Dancehall act Elephant Man, Samini, Stonebuoy, Jupiter, Kaakie, Natural face among other acts.The BASS Awards 2013, is an annual event that seeks to reward African Reggae and Dancehall music makes its first entry in the Ghanaian Entertainment and Events space.The Award Scheme seeks to appreciate and celebrate musicians within the Reggae and Dancehall genre. BASS Awards is the first of its kind and the future looks very bright as it touches on one of the most respected genre in the world.It is an established fact that Reggae and Dancehall has made a tremendous impact among music lovers and the artistes themselves hardly get noticed or appreciated.The award is specially designed to show gratitude to reggae and dancehall musicians, to serve as an annual gathering of lovers of reggae and dancehall and generally present top notch entertainment to the public.The name of the event was derived from Rhythms and BASS (pronounced Base) which happened to be the basis for the reggae and dancehall genre.The BASS Awards is organised by Rackus Productions and powered by Bullhaus Entertainment and Solid Multimedia.Check out the final list below:FINAL LIST FOR BASS AWARD CATEGORIESMOST POPULAR REGGAE SONG OF THE YEAR(S)1...
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