At this year's Grammy Awards, Ghanaian Highlife music was recognized as one of the relevant African musical styles for the Best African Music Performance category.
One of the three new slots for the prestigious awards program's 2024 edition is the Best African Music Performance category. The Best Pop Dance Recording and the Best Alternative Jazz Album are the other two.
The popular Ghanaian drill, led by the Asaaka boys from Kumasi, was mentioned as a music style for the Grammy Best African Music Performance category in addition to Highlife music.
Promoters of Highlife, who have been advocating for the genre's global recognition, find the most recent information to be quite reassuring.
Last year, the CEO (Chief) of the Recording Foundation, Harvey Manson Jnr. when he was in Ghana, he made it clear that the plan was to get African music the right representation.
“A track and singles category that recognizes recordings that utilize unique local expressions from across the African continent,” the "Best African Music Performance" category states.
Afrobeat, Afro-fusion, Afro Pop, Afrobeats, Alte, Amapiano, Bongo Flava, Genge, Kizomba, Chimurenga, High Life, Fuji, Kwassa, Ndombolo, Mapouka, Ghanaian Drill, Afro-House, South African Hip-Hop, and Ethio Jazz are among the categories that highlight regional melodic, harmonic, and rhythmic musical traditions.
The Recording Academy's most recent semiannual Board of Trustees meeting, which took place in May 2023, is where these category additions and amendments were voted on and approved, according to grammy.com.
The Recording Academy is pleased to announce the most recent additions to our Awards system's categories. These progressions mirror our obligation to effectively tune in and answer the criticism from our music local area, precisely address a different scope of important melodic classes, and remain lined up with the consistently developing melodic scene," Recording Foundation President Harvey Bricklayer jr. said.
"By presenting these three new classifications, we can recognize and value a more extensive cluster of specialists - and migrating the Maker of the Year and Musician of the Year classifications to the General Field guarantees that every one of our citizens can partake in perceiving greatness in these fields," Bricklayer proceeded. " In addition to exposing a wider range of music to fans worldwide, we are thrilled to honor and celebrate the creators and recordings in these categories.
The declaration has ignited blended responses via virtual entertainment in with some requiring the consideration of Hiplife over Drill music.
"Ghanaian Drill is an alternative to Hiplife; a hiplife subgenre that is still in the early stages of development. Hiplife merited a notice in that class definition more than Ghanaian Drill.
There is no hatred or tribalism here. Fact!” Kwame Dadzie made a post.
Kelly Nii Lartey Mensah posted on Facebook: Ghana Exercise Highlife won the Grammy. The praise belongs to young people who create novel sounds for highlife. Be glad to call yourselves highlife artistes.
However, to my drill and Kumerica yobos, the Grammy Awards have taken you out of Ghana! Great job, GH!
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