The AfriMusic Song Contest is the largest music competition platform in Africa, creating equal opportunities for emerging musical talent from all countries on our continent. The AfriMusic Song Contest is geared to educate, empower and enable untapped songwriters, composers and singers across Africa, by constructing a positive and confident image of Africa in unity through music, across the continent and on an international stage. Aspiring Africans eager to showcase their talents and represent their country with their musical endevours, have been given an opportunity to enter and put their songs forward.
This year, contestants from 16 African Countries across the Continent submitted entries for the 2019 instalment of the AfriMusic Song Contest. The entries phase ended on the 17th February 2019 and the National Selections voting commenced on 11th March 2019, closing votes to the General Public at Midnight GMT on the 25th March 2019. The organisers of the contest said that they had received an overwhelming amount of votes, that showed amazing support towards the talented artists and the contest as a whole.
In 2018, Symphony from the Kingdom of eSwatini took the first big win with her song Sengikhona and the contest organisers are very excited to see which artist and country will take the title in 2019. AfriMusic awarded Symphony with a trip to Lisbon Portugal in 2018, where she got to perform at the EuroVision Villiage infront of 20,000 spectators and the performance broadcasted live to 186 million viewers on RTP, the public service broadcasting organization of Portugal. “The trip was a huge success and to have seen the support that the AfriMusic Song Contest received and more importantly, the love shown to our winning artist Symphony, was everything we could have hoped for and more. It is a true reflection of the hard work the organisers and artists put in and how we as Africans are hungry for the opportunity to change lives of untapped talent in Africa.” said Managing Director of the AfriMusic Song Contest Michelle Fernandes.
After 2 weeks of General Public online voting and scores received from the AfriMusic judging panel, the National Selection votes are in and the AfriMusic Song Contest organisers are pround to announce the Top 20 Finalists for the 2019 installment of the contest:
AFRIMUSIC SONG CONTEST TOP 20 FINALISTS
Cameroon
Game Over performed by Joahn Lover written by Joahn Lover
Côte d’Ivoire
Merci performed by Cynthia Dembele written by Fabemu Kouao
Ghana
Juju performed by Efe Keyz written by Ellen Gyapong
Cross Road performed by Da Saama written by Da Saama
Always and Forever performed by Silas Boateng written by Silas Boateng
Thunder Fire performed by Dee Tutu written by Dee Tutu
Hypnotize performed by Ssue written by Ssue Malawi
Come Thru performed by Mungo Ligoya written by Mungo Ligoya
Mozambique
Carlitos performed by Jay Arghh A.K.A JR written by Jay Arghh A.K.A JR
Nigeria
Dancehall on Fire performed by Alvan Morris written by Alvan Morris
Fun Won Tan performed by Easrel written by Easrel
Oleburuku performed by Laz B written Laz B
Rwanda
Yari Ngewe performed by Iyamuremye Serge written by Iyamuremye Serge
South Africa
Ho Tlaba Jwang performed by Mellow written by Mellow
Can we go back performed by Kelstar written by Kelstar
Phakama Mbokodo performed by Nonzwakazi written by Nonzwakazi
I will never fight again performed by Linda Kilian written by Ylvan & Linda Persson
Kingdom of eSwatini
Uwami performed by Amanda Mo written by Sitsandzile Motsa
Ngik’tsandzile performed by Miss Trophy written by Miss Trophy
Zambia
Gold performed by Towela Kaira written by Towela Kaira
Ghana is in the lead with 5 artists having made it through to the finals from a list of 16 songs that competed in the National Selections. Followed closely 4 South African songs made it through to the finals phase, 3 songs from Nigeria and 2 songs from the Kingdom of eSwatini. 1 song from Malawi, Rwanda and Mozambique are representing their countries in the most anticipated music competition platform in Africa. The countest is proud to present a powerful Top 20 list of songs and artists. Who will take the trophy home?
Senegal and South Sudan have sadly been eliminated from the contest, as their representing artists did not score high enough to make it into the contest finals.
The Top 20 contestants were selected by a ranking voting system, where each country contestant is awarded two sets of 12, 10, 8-1 points. 50% of the votes were casted by the AfriMusic professional judging panel and the other 50% from general public online voting, available on the contest website. Both the scores were combined and devided on a 50/50 method, where a final overall score would then be calculated. The contestants with the most overall points per region, were put through to the AfriMusic Song Contest Finals. This voting system is much like that of the EuroVision Song Contest and has been in place for the AfriMusic Song Contest, since their first participating year in 2017 – 2018.
West Africa had their top 10 contestants selected, Central and East Africa had their top 2 contestants selected and Southern African Region had their top 8 contestants selected. These selections were allocated based on the number of contestants participating in each region, offering a fair allocation of participation to all.
“We would like to congratulate each individual artist for sharing their talent with the rest of Africa and the globe, through our AfriMusic Song Contest platform. We are immensely proud of the talent, hard work and perseverance of each individual artist. We wish to positively influence and unify Africa as a whole and encourage artists from all walks of life to put forward their art. Those that did not make the final cut should not be discouranged as their talent has been noticed and the interaction on our social media platforms is a true reflection of how far their work can reach. We also wish to encourange that they continue to perservere and try again. If this contest has proven anything, it has proven the caliber of untapped talent in Africa, that just needed a platform to showcase their abilities. We are excited to see the results following the finals and who the next AfriMusic Song Contest winner will be.”. – said Suzie Vicente, Business Development Director of the AfriMusic Song Contest.
Voting for the AfriMusic Song Contest Finals, open at 09h00 GMT on Friday 29th March 2019 and continue until midnight GMT on 12th April 2019.
The voting limit per person has been capped at 250 votes per day and voters will need to register their details ahead, in order to ensure that voting is kept fair and bots are prevented from manipulating the voting process. The voting process will remain the same as it did in 2018, where all 20 songs get to start new votes again, offering fair results to all.
The general public and judges will have the opportunity to listen to the Top 20 finalists via the AfriMusic digital platforms and will be able to cast their vote for their favourite song. Further information on the process and voting is available on www.afrimusicsongcontest.com
To vote for your favourite song visit the AfriMusic Song Contest website (www.afrimusicsongcontest.com)
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