Bloggers' Forum: The ShattaBwoy VGMA ban - to overturn or not to overturn?
Conversations on the sanctions meted out to Stonebwoy and Shatta Wale have been triggered following the call for entries for this year’s Vodafone Ghana Music Awards (VGMAs).
Read full articleCharterhouse Ghana, organisers of the scheme, maintains that the indefinite ban imposed on these two acts by the VGMAs board is still in force until the newly constituted board decides otherwise.
Shatta Wale and Stonebwoy were banned indefinitely from the awards scheme, stripped of all the awards they won last year and asked to return the plaques after they disrupted the 20th edition of the event.
While Stonebwoy was up the VGMA stage taking his award, Shatta Wale, his rival on the music scene, was seen approaching the stage with a host of others presumed to be his fans.
Stonebwoy who felt threatened, pulled out a handgun handed him on stage by a member of his entourage, a scene that sparked a scuffle between the two artistes and their followers.
The awards event was temporarily halted and the topmost two awards for the event; Most Popular Song of the Year and Artiste of the Year, were deferred due to the melee.
On the maiden edition of Bloggers’ Forum on GhanaWeb TV, where a mix of tourism, arts and entertainment writers sit to discuss issues relating to the industry, the reporters analyze the repercussions of the inclusion or exclusion of Stonebwoy and Shatta Wale.
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