Freshlyground score MTV Awards Nomination
Home-brewed Freshlyground Gets MTV Awards Nomination
Via Jetstreaker:
Cape Town based Afro-fusion group Freshlyground has scored an MTV Europe awards nomination in the Best African Act category. The ceremony will take place in Denmark later this year and, in a failed attempt to bring sexy back, will be hosted by Justin Timberlake.
Viewers across Europe and Africa can vote for their favourite bands, so let's all go and rock the vote for them here (nice site!). Also watch out for their third album slated for release in November.
And News24:
MTV Networks Africa said the five nominees representing the African continent at the 13th annual MTV Europe Music Awards would be upbeat Nigerian R&B twins P-Square, Tanzanian bongo flava star Juma Nature, Angolan R&B sensation Anselmo Ralph, Kenyan hip hop artist Nameless, and Freshlyground. Only one of the five artists will follow in the footsteps of Nigeria's 2-FACE Idibia, who won the inaugural Best African Act Award in 2005.
Awesome! If you've ever caught them live then you'll agree that they really deserve it.
More reading: Freshlyground are boiling, Freshlyground up for MTV award.
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6 Comments
that does sound weird. i bet there is not a lot of competition for best antarctica act. i don’t recognize any of those african nominees. i need to start listening to more music.
well. i went off to amazon and bought the cd – and i’m suitably impressed. thanks for the heads-up on this one Damien.
Cool Neil, which one did you buy?
the Nomvula cd :¬)
I like your way of singing and mostly i love that fat short smiling black girl … I love her smile and chiefly her fat backs…
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20 September 2006
gavin03:59 pm
best african act, isnt that a bit weird, for MTV Europe? do they have best asian and best american etc categories too?