More days for KORA
Awards’ entries
By TOSIN AJIRIRE
Saturday, April
19, 2008
The closing date for entries and submission of artistic works
the for KORA Awards 2008 has been extended to Tuesday, April
30, 2008 as against the earlier date of Tuesday, April 15,
2008.
Blockbuster learnt that reason for extension
is principally due to prevalence of calls by stakeholders
to extend the date, in order to accommodate artistes from
far away African countries that have been finding it difficult
to send their entries to Calabar, Cross River State.
According to Mr. Ernest Coovi Adjovi, President and Producer
of KORA All Africa Music Awards, “it will be unfair
to disenfranchise some African artistes and their fans due
to distance and change in host country, South-Africa, which
they are familiar with, to Nigeria, the new host of the event.
Hence, the need to heed the call for the extension.”
However, submission and entry of musical videos and audios
for all artistes is FREE. Artistes are expected to download
the forms from the KORA websites www.koraawards.org and www.koraawards.com,
fill and courier it to KORA office, Suite C12-C13, Tinapa
Business Resort, Calabar, Cross River State, Nigeria.
This year’s KORA All Africa Music Awards slated for
Saturday, December 6, 2008 is expected to be unique and bigger
in all ramifications as the Best Artiste in Africa will go
home with the whooping sum of 1 million US Dollar, an equivalent
of N120 million! With this, the response rate of submission
has been encouraging since it began in February.
The Executive Director of ZMC, the Marketing and Communication
Consultant for KORA Awards 2008, Mr. Mike Yomi Dada posited
thus: “Unarguably KORA Awards is the biggest musical
event in Africa, the shift in date is to allow adequate representation
and fairness across the continent because we cannot afford
to have any loophole, for the whole world is eagerly waiting
for Nigeria to showcase the most glamorous event in Africa.”
According to him, the only means of voting for the artistes
at KORA Awards 2008 is by SMS and not Internet voting. The
general public is urged to pay close attention to the periods
of voting for the different categories.
The requirements for entry for the awards are: 2 (two) colour
photographs (1x full-length & 1x Close up), 1 (one) biography
in English language (less than 500 words) and 1 (one) biography
in French language (less than 500 words).
They also include 6 (six) Audio CD, 1 (one) video (DV Cam
preferably or DVD) of the title considered by the artiste
as the most representative of his work, commercially released
from January 1, 2006 to March 31, 2008, and lastly a completed
form
KORA Awards is adjudged by CNN as the biggest musical event
in Africa with a glamorous and live broadcast to over 700
million viewers in 82 countries in the world. This year’s
KORA Awards intends to connect Nigeria and Africa with the
world like never before.
Cross River State Government, Cross River State Tourism Bureau,
TINAPA Business Resort, Calabar, and Custodian and Allied
Insurance are partnering KORA. The media partners for the
event are CFI Canal France International, RFI, Afrique Magazine,
AIT and Soundcity among others,
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