Gospel musician, Joe Mettle, says the floodgates are now opened for gospel artistes to win the Artiste of the Year title at Ghana Music Awards.
After successfully breaking the long-awaited jinx that has seen no gospel artiste win the topmost award since the rules of the awards were changed in 2008, Joe Mettle believes that winning the award has opened the gate for others to win.
Although Daughters of Glorious Jesus won the Artiste of the Year award in 2004, before 2008, the topmost award went to the Popular Song of the Year winner.
He made the declaration after beating E. L, Sarkodie, Stonebwoy, MzVee, and Medikal to claim the bragging rights as Ghana’s topmost artiste.
The ‘Onwanwani’ hit singer thus holds the bragging rights as the best artiste in Ghana for a year.
In his acceptance speech, Joe Mettle said, “this is for God almighty, this is for gospel music, this is for Christian and for every gospel musician in this house, I just want to say that the door is open.”
Apart from the Artiste of the Year award, he beat Ogya Mensah, Afriyie, Akwaboah, Sonnie Badu, and Ernest Opoku to win the Best Male Vocalist of the Year award.
He had earlier picked up the Gospel Artiste of the Year award.
As soon as he picked the Best Male Vocalist of the Year award, he told the packed audience at the Accra International Conference Centre (AICC) Sunday morning that “I dedicate the award to the man who discovered me. “I wish the man who discovered me… unfortunately, he is not here to witness this…the late Danny Nettey.”
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