A time for the DJs

They are mostly the brains behind the sounds that we jam to at events but the works of Disc Jockeys (DJ’s) have mostly gone unrecognised.

It was in line with the need to set up an institution to recognise the works of DJs that the Ghana DJ Awards was established in 2012.

Since its inception, the awards show has served the platform to award deserving artistes in the year under review and appreciate the works of new talents as well. 

This year, the show, which will come off at the Accra International Conference Centre on Saturday, February 21, is to reward hardworking DJs in the industry who have contributed to the promotion of Ghanaian culture through music over the course of the year.

At a ceremony held at the Alisa by Browser Shop" href="#">Hotel to announce the nominees for this year’s awards recently, the Chairman of the Ghana DJ Awards, Mr. Ahumey Ocansey said voting via shortcodes have been opened to allow members of the public vote for their favourite DJs, in order to increase their chances of winning. 

“ The public is requested to text the prefix of the category along with the name of their preferred DJ to shortcode 1736 on all networks. 

“There is also an element of online voting in this year’s awards as the categories of Best International Ghanaian DJ and Best International Non Ghanaian DJ are available for voting on Twitter,” he added.

 Other categories up for grabs are; Best DJ of the Year, Best Event DJ of the Year, Best Record Promoter of the Year, Best Pub DJ of the Year and Best Video Jockey of the Year. 

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The rest are Best Mobile DJ of the Year, DJDiscovery of the Year,   Best Highlife DJ of the Year, Club DJ of the Year, Reggae/dancehall DJ of the Year, Best Artiste DJ of the Year, Best Mixtape DJ of Year  and Campus DJ of the Year.

Nominees will also compete in the Best Hiplife DJ of the Year, Best Gospel DJ of the Year, Best Male Radio DJ of the Year, Best International Ghanaian DJ, Best Club MC of the Year, Best Female Radio DJ of the Year and Best Female DJ of the Year categories.