Charterhouse, organisers of the Ghana Music Awards (GMA), according to patrons of the recent music awards, erred when they gave the Best Female Vocal Performance award to Irene and Jane.

Music fans who graced the occasion expected to hear names like Becca, Cee or Ohemaa Mercy mentioned for that award, and suspected foul play when it was given to Irene and Jane.

A cross-section of fans interviewed by Beatwaves indicated that Charterhouse had disappointed them because the event lacked credibility.

Irene and Jane, produced and managed by Charterhouse, won the Charterhouse-organised TV reality show, Stars of the Future, two years ago.
Nominees for this year’s Best Female Vocal Performance category included Becca, Ohemaa Mercy, Cee and Diana Antwi-Hamilton.

Irene and Jane, after receiving the award, were hooted at by the fans, who felt they did not merit it.

Others also lost interest in the gala night, after Madtime Entertainment, which belongs to Kwaw Kese, aka Abodam won the Record Label of the Year award.

They argued that record labels such as Big Ben Music, JMS Music Production, Kaakyire Music Production, Bandex Music among others had released a number of albums onto the music market for the past years and that any of them deserved the award.

Those who had condemned music producers for boycotting the event however realized later that the producers had a case for boycotting the event.

Music Producer, Ahmed Banda, known in music circles as Bandex, confirmed that he personally asked Cee, Isaac and Ampong, three musicians in his stable, not to be present at the MTN Ghana Music awards event.

The three won the Best Collaboration award but were conspicuously missing at the event though the organisers had sent them invitations.

Bandex hinted that after the industry awards the Producers Association of Ghana, known also as the Ghana Association of Phonographic Industry (GAPI) met to register their disapproval over the winning of the Record Label of the Year award by Madtime Entertainment, because by GAPI’s standards Madtime did not merit the award.