The sixteenth Annual Headies Awards is ready to happen on Sunday, September third on the Cobb Power Heart in Atlanta, GA. for a second yr in a row!
Honoring the creative ingenuity of expertise in Africa and America for the second yr in a row with reside performances by Rema, Asake, Oxlade, Johnny Drille, Blaqbonez, Spyro, Seyi VIbez, Fireboy, KCee, Victony, and Ayra Starr. The award may also see famend artists Drake, Future, Selena Gomez, Don Tolliver, and Ed Sheeran contend within the Finest Worldwide Artist class and Sean Combs to obtain the Worldwide Artist class.
Try the total record of nominees right here.
The organizers are bringing essentially the most influential and impactful Afrobeats abilities to america to rejoice them at an unprecedented night time of leisure and highly effective performances, a few of which embrace Asake, Rema, Oxlade, Johnny Drille, Blaqbonez, Spyro, Seyi Vibez, Fireboy, KCee, Victony, and Ayra Starr.
The Headies is essentially the most famend Pan African Award presentation, honoring the best in Afrobeats, African music, and tradition, that includes sounds from the South, East, Central, North, and West of Africa. Impressed by the necessity to fill a major void and be the voice of a technology within the tradition that they represented. The Headies Awards perceive the city modern popular culture that Afrobeats brings to mainstream music and have created a mega platform that interfaces with younger, gifted artists who characterize the way forward for world music.
“This era is a really fascinating interval in our nation (Nigeria) and all over the world. Final yr we gave away a Bentley to the winner of the Subsequent Rated class, so this yr we needed to do one thing else, and that’s to present the “Rookie Of The Yr” a 2-bedroom absolutely furnished solar-powered home.” – Ayo Animashaun, CEO and Founding father of The Headies Awards, on the 2023 Headies Brunch in Lagos, Nigeria.
The Awards present shall be streamed reside on YouTube (U.S.) and HipTV (Africa) Community.
About The Headies Awards:
The Headies Awards initially referred to as the Hip Hop World Awards, is a music awards present established in 2006 by the Hip Hop World Journal of Nigeria to acknowledge excellent achievements within the Nigerian music business. The annual ceremony options performances by established and promising artists.
About The Founder and Government Producer, Ayo Animashaun:
Ayo Animashaun is a Nigerian media government and leisure entrepreneur. He’s the CEO of Easy Productions, an leisure firm that produces The Headies awards present and publishes Hip Hop World Journal on a weekly foundation. He oversaw the launch of HipTV on Multichoice DSTV on November fifth, 2013. Ayo Animashaun was named one of the vital important people in Nigerian leisure by The Internet Journal in October 2013; he additionally runs Festac Radio On-line.
