Shatta Wale and his posse are having quite a good season. In the midst of his successful European Tour, the self-acclaimed ‘Dancehall King’, has won the Publisher’s Choice Award at the 5th edition of the 3D Awards held in Bronx, New York, USA.
The well-attended ceremony, which is organized by Charles N. Ntiamoah-Mensah (Mr. CNN) of 3G Media, witnessed performances from award-winning gospel music star, Steve Kelly; US/Ghana sensational gospel music star; Ewuraba Nyamekye; Matu Saye, hiplife sensation, 2Shy and Ghanaian trumpeter Francis Akrofi.
The Publishers’ Award
Past honorees of the 3G Awards have included; Tommy Smythe; ESPN’s Sports Presenter/Analyst; Lynne Carter; Hall of Fame Boxing Judge, Boxing legend; Azuma Nelson, Albert Mensah, and Asamoah Gyan.
Shatta Wale, apart from the negative reportage that made headlines with his time in Germany, has by far, had a very successful European tour.
Following a successful event last year, Ghana’s digital lifestyle brand, Tigo Ghana is back with the 2015 edition of ‘Unplugged’, one of the biggest celebration of music.
Award-wining hiplife and dancehall artists, Stonebwoy, Shatta Wale, VVIP, Kwaw Kese, EL, Keche and MzVee are billed to entertain and excite Tigo customers and Ghanaians.
They will be joined by Nigeria’s Afro dancehall musician, Patoranking, at the Baba Yara Sports Stadium in Kumasi on Saturday, 28th November 2015.
This year’s edition celebrates the first anniversary of Tigo Music with customers ahead of Christmas.
The much anticipated concert will give customers the chance to see Ghana’s top music talents perform their favourite hit songs.
Speaking at the media launch in Accra, Tigo’s Director of Marketing, Mr. Jesse Agyepong, said: “We made a huge impact on the music industry last year, with the launch of our partnership with Deezer, the international music streaming service. Through our commitment to commercialize music, we have been able to give real value for money to our local artistes and support to the Ghana Music Industry.”
“After the launch of Tigo Music last year, it won the “Most Innovative Product of the Year” at the 2015 Ghana Telecom Award, which shows how relevant, timely and insight driven the Tigo Music brand is.”
He noted: “We are proud of what we have been able to achieve, and the tremendous response we received for it. We’re expecting an even better response this year.”
He explained that the event is targeted at all our customers hence the mixed line-up of artists, adding that, “As always we promise fireworks and intensive partying.”
“We will continue to be part of the music industry because we believe that music delivers a great brand experience. We urge our customers to join us at the Baba Yara Sports Stadium for fun-filled concert,” he stated.
The Ghana music industry has and it is growing.A few years ago, it was so hard to hear a musician charge as much as 50,000 or 100,000 cedis just to play a show.
But today, the likes of Sarkodie, Shatta Wale, Stonebwoy and others can quote an amount they are worth.
Stonebwoy
Born in Ashaiman in 1988 in the Greater Accra region of Ghana.Stonebwoy is the stage name of Livingstone Etse Satekla.A Ghanaian Afropop, dancehall, and reggae artiste.He is the CEO of Burniton Music Group.
Many Ghanaians recognize him as one of the leading Reggae and Dancehall artists in the country and 2015 seem to be his biggest year.
He won the Artist of the Year at the Ghana Music Awards and went on to win the Best International Act: Africa at the 2015 BET Awards.He has won the Bass Awards, African Muzik Magazine Awards (AFRIMA) and so on and so forth.
There was a news reportage that he rejected a deal worth $80,000 dollars proposed by GLO but he eventually came out to deny. But we can confirm that in the year 2015, he inked an endorsement deal with car brand KIA.
According to further research done by us indicates that in 2017 alone he landed two endorsement deals, master Card funded MASO, as well as a gold endorsement deal.
Culminating all these together coupled with the number of shows and the amount he charges, cars .building, investment et al,As at this year 2017 , we can state that Stonebwoy’s total net worth is estimated to be $5.5 million.
Shatta Wale
Born October 17th, 1984 in Accra, Ghana as Charles Nii Armah Mensah Jnr. but known is showbiz as Shatta Wale Bandana.
After a senior high school, he released the hit track named Bandana from Ghana, which was successful in the Ghanaian music industry in 2004.
In 2013, he released the song Dancehall King, which propelled his resurgence into the Ghana music.
A reggae-dancehall musician and producer Shatta Wale who became well-known for his hit song titled Dancehall King eventually helped him winning the Artiste of the Year at the 2014 edition of the Ghana Music Awards.
He also featured as an actor in Shattered Lives with Bisa Kdei and Majid Michel.
Shatta is devoted to charity projects and during Christmas festivities of 2014, he visited the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital Ghana’s biggest hospital to donate generously to the Children’s Block worth thousands of Ghanaian cedi.
He also donated to the victims of the disasters that occurred in Accra on June 2015. The group of celebrities including him brought along food, clothes and other needed supplies.
Shatta is the leader, CEO and founder of the Shatta Movement.He was picked as the brand ambassador of Guinness Ghana Breweries in 2014, along with some other musicians including EL, Reggie Rockstone, and Fuse ODG for Made of Black campaign.
He has been nominated and won several awards.From African Muzik Magazine Awards, Ghana Music Awards,4ste Tv Awards, Nigerian Entertainment Awards,International Reggae and World Music Awards,etc.
Shatta, the dance hall superstar was also unveiled as the brand ambassador for the energy drink, Rush Energy Drink.
His net worth is estimated to be about $6 million as at this year 2017.
