Celebrated gospel artistes Willy Paul and Bahati missed out on the groove awards nominations despite being active in the music scene in the past year.
The groove nomination event which saw the unveiling of the 2019 nominees went down last night at the Kenya National Theatre.
Under the theme, “Better Together” the nominees were unveiled at an exclusive red carpet event held at the Kenyan National Theatre on Wednesday.
Jabidii broke his own record bagging the most nominations with 11 nods, bettering his seven nominations from the 2018 edition.
He got recoginzed in the Artist of the Year category, Collabo of the Year, Song of the Year, Teens Choice Song of the Year (in which he received 2 nominations ), Reggae/Ragga Song of the Year, Breakthrough Artist of the year, Collabo of the year and Dance style/song of the Year – a category that saw him receive 3 nominations.
Timeless Noel and Moji ShortBabaa impressively received 6 nominations each.
There was a split of the Breakthrough Artists Category to accommodate both the Male and Female artists separately and the introduction of new categories; Online/Digital Personality of the Year, Young Groover of the Year and the Diaspora Artists of the Year category respectively.
Online voting has been opened and one can vote for their favorite nominee by logging onto the Groove Awards website.
Voting closes at midnight on the 31st of May 2019.
This year’s winners will be announced on 1st June 2019 at the Gala Awards ceremony, to be held in Nairobi.
A winner’s concert is then slated shortly after the awards ceremony on 8th June 2019 in Mombasa.
Here is the full list of nominees:
