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rocky dawuni at grammys1Best Reggae Album nominee, Rocky Dawuni has made his appearance at the red carpet of 58th Grammy awards happening  live at the Staples Center in Los Angeles. The Ghanian reggae artist wore  a white suit perhaps as a sign of early victory.  rocky dawuni at grammys2

When asked about his chances of winning and who he wants to meet he said we should keep the faith burning and that he wants to meet Kendrick Lamar.

Meanwhile early winners from the non-televised part of the ceremony include the following

Best Pop Vocal Album – Taylor Swift  – ‘1989’

Best Instrumental Composition Afrolatin Jazz – ‘The Afro Latin Jazz Suite’

Best Arrangement, Instrumental Or A Cappella thebenbram, mitch grassi, scott hoying, Avi Kaplan, kirstin taylor and K Olusola “Dance Of The Sugar Plum Fairy”

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Best Arrangement, Instruments And Vocals – schneider maria – “Sue (Or In A Season Of Crime)

Best Recording Package Sarah Dodds, Shauna Dodds,  Dick Reeves – ‘Still The King: Celebrating The Music Of Bob Wills And His Texas Playboys’

Best Album Notes – Joni Mitchellcom – ‘Love Has Many Faces: A Quartet, A Ballet, Waiting To Be Danced’

Best Boxed Or Special Limited Edition Package Suepie, Dean Blackwood & Jack White – The Rise & Fall Of Paramount Records, Volume Two (1928-32)

Best Historical Album – Steve Berkowitz, Jan Haust, Jeff Rosen, Peter Moore, MarkWilder – ‘The Basement Tapes Complete: The Bootleg Series Vol. 11’

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Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical Shawn Everett & Bob Ludwig – ‘Sound & Color’

Best Remixed Recording, Non-Classical – Dave Aude – “Uptown Funk (Dave Audé Remix)”

Best Surround Sound Album – James Guthrie & Joel Plante – ‘Amused To Death’

Best Contemporary Instrumental Album  – Snarky Puppy & Metropole Orkest – ‘Sylva’

Best New Age Album – PAUL AVGERINOS – ‘Grace’

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Best Jazz Vocal Album – Cecile Salvant – ‘For One To Love’

Best Jazz Instrumental Album – John Scofield – ‘Past Present’

Best Improvised Jazz Solo – Mcbride – “Cherokee”

Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album – Maria Schneider Orchestra – ‘The Thompson Fields’

Best Latin Jazz Album – Eliane Elias – ‘Made In Brazil’

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Best Reggae Album – Morgan Heritage – ‘Strictly Roots’

Best World Music Album – Angelique Kidjo – ‘Sings’

Best Children’s Album- Tim Kubart – ‘Home’

Best Spoken Word Album – Jimmy Carter – ‘A Full Life: Reflections at Ninety’

Best Comedy Album Louis CK – ‘Live At Madison Square Garden’

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Best Latin Pop Album – Ricky Martin – ‘A Quien Quiera Escuchar (Deluxe Edition)’

Best Latin Rock, Urban Or Alternative Album Natalia Lafourcade – ‘Hasta La Raíz’ & Pitbull – ‘Dale’ (TIE)

Best Regional Mexican Music Album – Los Tigre – ‘Realidades – Deluxe Edition’

Best Tropical Latin Album – Ruben Blades with Roberto Delgado & Orchestra – ‘Son De Panamá’

Best American Roots Performance – Mavis Staples – ‘See That My Grave Is Kept Clean’

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Best American Roots Song –  Jason Isbell – “24 Frames”

Best Americana Album – Jason Isbell – ‘Something More Than Free’

Best Bluegrass Album – Steel Drivers – ‘The Muscle Shoals Recordings’

Best Blues Album – Buddy Guy – ‘Born To Play Guitar’

Best Folk Album – Bela Fleck & Abigail Washburn – ‘Béla Fleck And Abigail Washburn’

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Best Regional Roots Music Album – Jon Cleary – ‘Go Go Juice’

Producer Of The Year, Classical – Judith Sherman

Best Opera Recording –  Seiji Ozawa , Isabel Leonard, Dominic Fyfe – “Ravel: L’Enfant Et Les Sortilèges; Shéhérazade”

Best Choral Performance Charles Bruffy, Phoenix Chorale & KC Chorale – “Rachmaninoff: All-Night Vigil”

Best Chamber Music/Small Ensemble Performance – Eighth Blackbird – “Filament”

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Best Classical Instrumental Solo- Augustin Hadelich, Ludovic Morlot – “Dutilleux: Violin Concerto, L’Arbre Des Songes”

Best Classical Solo Vocal Album – Joyce DiDonato & Antonio Pappano – ‘Joyce & Tony – Live From Wigmore Hall’

Best Contemporary Classical Composition – Stephen H Paulu – “Paulus: Prayers & Remembrances”

Best Compilation Soundtrack For Visual Media – Glen Campbell – ‘Glen Campbell: I’ll Be Me’

Best Score Soundtrack For Visual Media – Antonio Drums X – ‘Birdman’

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Best Song Written For Visual Media – Common, RHYMEFEST & John Legend – “Glory”

Best Music Video – Taylor Swift ft. Kendrick Lamar – “Bad Blood”

Best Music Film – Asifkapadia (director), Amy Winehouse – ‘Amy’

Best Gospel Performance/Song – Kirk Franklin – “Wanna Be Happy?”

Best Contemporary Christian Music Performance/Song-  Francesca

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Best Gospel Album – Israel Newbreed – ‘Covered: Alive In Asia [Live]’

Best Contemporary Christian Music Album – Toby Mac – ‘This Is Not A Test’

Best Roots Gospel Album – The Fairfield Four – ‘Still Rockin’ My Soul’

Best Country Solo Performance – Chris Stapleton – ‘Traveller’

Best Country Duo/Group Performance – Little Big Town – “Girl Crush”

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Best Country Song – Hillary Lindsey, Lori McKenna and  Lizrose- “Girl Crush”

Best Dance Recording – Skrillex, Diplo & Justin Bieber – “Where Are Ü Now”

Best Dance/Electronic Album- Skrillex and Diplo – ‘Skrillex And Diplo Present Jack Ü’

Best R&B Performance – The Weeknd – “Earned It (Fifty Shades Of Grey)”

Best Traditional R&B Performance – Lalah Hathaway – “Little Ghetto Boy”

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Best R&B Song – The Dangelo & Kendra Foster – “Really Love”

Best Urban Contemporary Album – The Weeknd – ‘Beauty Behind The Madness’

Best R&B Album – The Dangelo – ‘Black Messiah’

Best Alternative Music Album – Alabama Shakes – ‘Sound & Color’

Best Rock Album – Muse – ‘Drones’

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Best Rock Song – Alabama Shakes – “Don’t Wanna Fight”

Best Rap/Sung Collaboration – Kendrick lamar ft. Bilal, Anna The Wise, & Thundercat – ‘These Walls’

Best Rap Performance – kendrick lamar – “Alright”

Best Rap Song – Kendricklamar, kawan prather, Sounwave, & Pharrell – “Alright”

Best Pop Solo Performance – Ed Sheeran – “Thinking Out Loud”

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Best Pop Duo/Group Performance – Mark Ronson ft. Bruno Mars – “Uptown Funk”

Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album – tony bennett & Bill Charlap – ‘The Silver Lining: The Songs Of Jerome Kern’

Producer Of The Year, Non-Classical – Jeff Bhasker

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Lagos police arrest gay gang of criminals, who raped their male victims

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The police in Lagos have recorded a breakthrough by arresting eight members of a vicious gang of criminals that specialize in subjecting their victims to several hours of anal sex after dispossessing them of their properties and cash.

The arrest, said to be one of the biggest successes of detectives recently, under the watchful eyes of Commissioner of Police, Adegoke Fayoade so far, was made in the highbrow areas of Lekki, Ajah and Ikoyi areas of the state and efforts are in top gear to round up fleeing members of the dreaded gang made up of young men between the ages of 23 and 40.

Giving details of the operational strategies of the gang, police sources said the young men usually perpetrate their evil acts by renting living apartments in the highbrow areas of the city after which they embark on search for their victims.

It was learned that they normally place notices in strategic areas of the city, advertising job vacancies and acting as estate agents.

Sources said desperate job and accommodation seekers who respond to their adverts would be taken to their apartments usually situated in one of the booming estates where they are subjected to all kinds of torture with a view to forcing them release their account details after which they would be forced into several hours of anal sex by members of the gang.

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According to sources, their operational method is to roam around with exotic cars including high flying SUV’s. They place fake advertisements in strategic areas of Lekki, Ajah, Banana Island and even Ikoyi after which they also scout around, looking for fine and healthy-looking men.

As soon as they succeed in getting a victim, they drive the person to their apartment where they torture him for hours. While torturing their victim, they would extract all information about him including his financial status.

“As soon as they are in possession of those personal facts, they swing into action by proceeding to his house or banks to empty his money and other valuables. The second round of their operation is to subject their victim to hours of anal sex which they take turns to have their fill. They usually record their exploits on video and later relax to view it while enjoying their loot.”

It was gathered that their criminal exploits were blown open after they succeeded in cornering and maltreating a relation of a mobile police officer. The enraged officer was said to have gone to one of the police stations at Lekki to lodge the report.

Based on this development, the Commissioner of Police, Adegoke Fayoade gave marching orders to his special squad to round up the criminals without delay.

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The Special Squad, it was learned, succeeded in penetrating the gang and rounded up seven of their members including their oldest member said to be a lawyer.

Crime Guard learned that during interrogations, members of the gang who were looking unruffled stated boldly that their victims were healthy looking young and old men that will satisfy their sexual urge through the anus.

“They reportedly shocked detectives when they confessed that they had been operating for over three years and that they choose highbrow areas where they could easily track well nourished and endowed men.

Police sources said: “They were boasting to us about how many healthy looking men they have abused through the anus. They said they reject men that are not looking health, stating emphatically that they have no business with women. After their arrest, we confined them in separate cells so that they would not descend on our male suspects inside the cell.

“However, few days later, one of them raised alarm that the oldest member of the gang who claimed to be a lawyer was having same affair with a member of the gang. When we accosted him, he said the relationship had been going on since they have been operating as a gang.

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“Our greatest problem now is that some members of the devilish gang have escaped and we strongly suspect that they must be carrying on with their devilish criminal acts wherever they are.

“We are spreading our dragnets and we are sure that very soon, we will round all of them up. I must state that if not for the swiftness with which our Commissioner directed the operation, many men in Lagos state would have been endangered species by now.”

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Joyce Dzidzor to release Tatata featuring Freddy Meiway

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Former Aids Ambassador and actress Joyce Dzidzor is gearing up for the release of her latest single Tatata featuring Ivorian Legendary musician Freddy Meiway.

Scheduled for release on April 10 the song recorded by King Dee, mixed by Donguy and mastered by Franz talks about broken heart and how to come out of it. Speaking in an interview with Joyce she said Freddy will not just jump on any song if he is not okay with it “How many musicians have been able to feature him on a song. It was not easy getting him on the song but finally we did and I am so grateful for that.

Asked why she went in for Meiway she said she has so much respect for him and even got a tattoo of him at her back said that her latest tattoo at her back.

“Meiway songs helped me her come out from depression. His music was a therapy for me when I was going through severe depression in 2019 in Hamburg and I tattoo him at my back to celebrate his achievements as an artiste for the past 35 years” she said Asked about her next project and collaboration with other Ghanaian musicians Joyce said that will only depend if this project goes well.

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“ I have a lot of plans for my music career but that will depend on how my latest single goes. If it goes well and accepted by Ghanaians it will give me the energy to continue my music career and feature other musicians” she said. Joyce has been doing music for more 15 years now and has backed musicians like Highlife musician Gyedu- Blay Ambolley and singer Sherifa Gunu.

She was also a member of Dela Hayes Women of Colour band. She pleaded with musicians in Ghana to acknowledge backup singers for their contributions they play. “It is only few musicians who come out to acknowledge who backed them in a studio but I have backed a lot of musicians in the past and they know it. It is just right that they acknowledge our contribution we play so that we can do fill happy for a good work done. When that is done, other musicians who probably liked what we did on other songs can employ us on their projects. That has been my worry for sometime and I wish it could be addressed” she said

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Henry Fitz and 2 others being sued over Serwaa Amihere video

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Serwaa Amihere has filed a suit at the Dansoman circuit court against Henry Amponsah popularly known as Henry Fitz, Edem Saviour Ketti and Candylove Kwaykewaa Ababio. (more…)

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‘Jenifa’s Diary’ actress Aderounmu Adejumoke is dead

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Nigerian actress, Adejumoke Oreoluwa Aderounmu, popularly known for her role as ‘Esther’ in popular TV series Jenifa’s Diary, is dead. (more…)

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Nyantakyi admits $100,000 payment to Anas to suppress corruption documentary

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Former Ghana Football Association (GFA) president Kwesi Nyantakyi has confessed to paying a hefty sum of $100,000 to journalist Anas Aremeyaw Anas in an effort to halt the release of the Number 12 documentary. (more…)

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‘7 armed men invaded our residence, demanding proceeds from Efya’s UK show’ – Sleeky Promotions

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Sleeky Promotions, the organizers of Efya’s recent show in the UK, has issued a press release addressing a distressing incident. (more…)

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