TRACE Awards 2023: Celebrating African Music Excellence in Kigali

Globally recognized entertainment and multimedia platform TRACE held its inaugural music award tagged  Trace Awards 2023, on October 21, 2023, at the BK Arena in Kigali, Rwanda. The award which had more than 150 artists nominated across various genres such as Afrobeat, Dancehall, Hip Hop, Afro-pop, Mbalax, Amapiano, Zouk, Kizomba, Genge, Coupé Décalé, Bongo Flava, Soukous, Gospel, Rap, Rai, Kompa, R&B, and Rumba, was set up to celebrate the creativity, talent, and influence of African and Afro-inspired music and artists. 

 The awards ceremony, which was hosted by Nigerian music veteran D’Banj alongside Angolan global supermodel Maria Borges, featured a star-studded lineup of performers, including Davido, Yemi Alade, Black Sherif, Kizz Daniel and more.

Here are the winners of the Trace Awards 2023, which had various stars like Burna Boy, Bixckie, Davido, DJ Maphorisa, Libianca, Yemi Alade among other artists in the nomination list.  

· Best Music Video – “Baddie” Yemi Alade (Nigeria)

· Best Artist France & Belgium – Tayc (France)

· Best Producer – Tam Sir (Ivory Coast)

· Best Artist North Africa – Dystinct (Morocco)

· Best Artist UK – Central Cee

· Best Artist Indian Ocean – Goulam (Comoros)

· Best Artist Francophone Africa – Didi B (Ivory Coast)

· Best DJ – Michael Brun (Haiti) 

· Best Gospel Artist – KS Bloom (Ivory Coast)

· Best Artist The Caribbean – Rutshelle Guillaume (Haiti) 

· Best Artist Anglophone Africa – Asake (Nigeria)

· Best Global African Artist – Rema

· Best Newcomer – Roseline Layo (Ivory Coast)

· Best Collaboration – “Unavailable” – Davido (Nigeria) with Musa Keys (South Africa)

· Best Dancer – Robot Boii (South Africa) 

· Best Artist Lusophone Africa – Lisandro Cuxi (Cape Verde)

· Changemaker Trace Award – Mr Eazi (Nigeria)

· Best Live – Fally Ipupa (DRC)

· Lifetime Achievement Award – 2Baba (Nigeria)

· Album of the Year – “Love Damini” – Burna Boy (Nigeria)

· Best Female Artist – Viviane Chidid (Senegal)

· Best Male Artist – Davido (Nigeria)

 

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Yemi Alade to Celebrate 26th Birthday in Switzerland

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Pretty Nigerian singer, Yemi Alade is a year older today March 13, 2015. The ‘Johnny’ singer who  is currently on tour in Europe  having been in France for over a week,  heads to Switzerland today to continue her tour and celebrate her birthday.
Born Yemi Eberechi Alade to a yoruba father, (James Alade), a former Commissioner of Police and an Igbo mother (Helen Uzoma), Yemi  Alade came into limelight after winning the maiden edition of the Peak Talent Show in 2009.
Yemi holds a B.S.C in Geography from the University of Lagos and with the huge success of ‘Johnny’ having prompted her to great heights, she is currently signed to the Taiye Aliu-led Effyzzie Music Group and dropped her long-awaited debut album, ‘Kings of Queens’ in September 2014.

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Yemi Alade - Temperature (Official Video) ft. Dil

 Effyzzie Music Group presents the music video for 'Temperature' which serves as the fifth single off Yemi Alade‘s critical and commercial successful debut album 'King Of Queens'.

The viral love preaching number features the track’s producer, R&B singer DiL. The visuals was shot in London and was directed by Ovie Etseyatse and co-directed by Taiye Aliyu.
Yemi Alade decided to release the music video on the 13th of March to celebrate her birthday and launched a singing contest on Instagram where fans get to win an iPhone 6 and go on a dinner with the diva.

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