This year’s Ghana Music Week (GMW) Festival has been launched at the Alliance Francaise in Accra. The one-week celebration is expected to begin on Sunday, March 5, with the aim to promote Ghanaian music and culture which is the key attraction for this year’s festival.

Award-winning artiste Sherrifa Gunu has released a new single titled Salamatu. In the song, Sherifa highlights the beauty and uniqueness of traditional African names which are indigenous to people of Africa.

She has been missing in action for more than a decade after she participated in TV3’s  Mentor 1 in 2006 and as a way of announcing her presence, Paulette Broohm aka Salti is asking her fans to hash tag her,’ Do something crazy’ and she is willing to even go nude.

He has been rapping for the past 15 years and although rapper YawNanna (real name Nana Yaw Kwenin) is not recognised yet, he has a strong feeling he will make it big very soon.

After having her fill with beauty pageants, beauty queen and model, Abena Akuana Appiah, has found her new love in music with the release of songs like Libi libi, Akuma, Regulate, Bring back our girls, Natural beauty and I Love you.

In what is expected to be a friendly ‘clash’, Tamale based dancehall artiste, Fancy  Gadam, is expected to come up against Reggae gem, Rudebwoy Ranking, in a concert dubbed, Tamale meets Nima.

Despite releasing songs like Just the two of us, Matede, See saw and Mengyai which warmed the hearts of many music lovers, Quarme Zaggy says his favourite among the lot is Odo mu police.

The Piano Bar at the Greda Estate Shell Roundabout, Teshe-Nungua in Accra, is noted for giving up-and-coming talents the chance to hone their skills but there is always room for established artistes to come on and shake the venue.

Dancehall artiste, Stonebwoy, will headline this year’s Ghana @60 Independence Celebration in the Norwegian capital of Oslo. Deemed a historic event, the celebration scheduled for Saturday, March 11, will see a lot of cultural display and will also be attended by prominent Ghanaian figures including Ghana’s ambassador to Denmark.

Highlife musician Ofori Amponsah has stated that no highlife artiste will surpass him this year. “Ghanaians know what I am capable of so I don’t need to talk too much to convince anyone. I have so much to give this year and soon Ghanaians will have a feel of me” he told Showbiz in an interview recently.

Since 2004, during his high school days at the Mount Sinai Secondary School in Akropong Akuapim in the Eastern Region], hiplife artiste Qwaachi had always wanted an opportunity to exhibit his talent and skills in music.

Not much has been heard of contemporary and prolific singer Kwabena Kwabena lately, but the highlife singer who gave us hit songs like Adult Music, Royal Lady, Bue Kwan, Engya Mi Ho and Aso is back with a new single titled Siwagegem.

As a way of bringing back our cherished dance competition, an event organisation, (Hottest Sport) HS, is searching for the best dancer to reward. Twenty lucky dancers will be selected across the 10 regions of Ghana and the final winner selected by a panel of talented judges.

Many young men keep their feelings about the women they admire to themselves but young highlife artiste, Kweysi Swat, has summed up the experience in his latest song titled, Helly Baby.

The Wonni Nyame A Due singer says he is sure his new song will be accepted by the many young men who have fallen victims to the “love medicine”.

“As an artiste, many ideas come to your mind to address and I think as a young artiste, supporting my brothers to go for what they want is in the right direction,” he said.

A mid-tempo song produced by Azee Burner, Helly Baby which features rapper, Amerado of Mic Burners Family, is a simple piece which talks about how a guy devised a strategy to woo a lady he loves.

Despite his admiration for her, the lady was making it difficult for him to achieve the purpose of winning her heart. However, with determination, he eventually wins her over with praises of her beauty which she loved to hear.

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Afro pop artiste, Trigmatic, is set to launch his third album, Melodies Awaking The Inactive Conscience (M.A.T.I.C) at Alliance Française on Saturday, January 21.

Songs on the 15-track album recorded by sound engineers E.L, Wei Ye Oteng, Genius Selection  are Ancient of Days, Gye Nyame, SANE, I Be Man, I Dey For You, Grass To Grace, Gbedu and  Motromodwo.

The rest are Woman’s House, Ayoo, R.A.P, OBA, Fire and Bellum Angelorum. Artistes featured on the M.A.T.I.C album include Sarkodie, E .L, Stonebwoy, A.I, Orezi, Jupitar, Krissy O and Skales.

Aside from Trigmatic who will perform on the night, artistes like Adina, D Cryme, Epixode, Kaakie, Sister Afia and Virgo will also mount the stage.

In an interview with Showbiz, Trigmatic, real name, Enoch Yaw Oduro-Agyei, said the M.A.T.I.C album will be the most talked about album because it contains great songs and features the finest GH artistes.

He explained that although he hasn’t been active on the