Esther Piesie, the most well-known gospel artist, is hopeful that she will win this year’s VGMA despite competing against Sarkodie, Camidoh, Black Sherrif, Stonebwoy, King Promise, and KiDi.
In an appearance on UTV’s Showbiz, Piesie Esther expressed her conviction that her long-term efforts merited the night’s top prize, the Artiste of the Year award.
The “Waye me yie” singer says she will be grateful even if she doesn’t win any awards that day because she knows that her faith will keep her going through the night as the winner.
“I believe and have faith that I will pick up the ultimate award, however, if I don’t pick any awards, I will still be grateful to God for at least getting the recognition. It will hurt if I don’t win an award but I’m hopeful things will turn out good in the end.”
Esther Piesie received seven nominations for the 2018 VGMAs.
Relatively, Esther Piesie should win “Artist of the Year” at the 24th Vodafone Ghana Music Awards (VGMA), according to music producer and singer Nana Osei, also known as Nacee.
If Piesie Esther doesn’t take home the grand prize, in his opinion, it will be blatant robbery.
During an interview with Amansan Krakye on Property FM in Cape Coast, he said this.
“If Piesie Esther doesn’t win the VGMA Artiste of the Year then she has been robbed and that’s because consider the analysis and look at how long Waye Me Yie has been trending,” said Nacee.
“Since the song was released she is still topping charts and compare it to the other songs and colleagues who are competing with her and ask yourself where are their songs now,” he added.
The multi-talented songwriter claims that performers like Black Sherif who tour abroad are ineligible for the title of VGMA Artist of the Year.
He thinks that winning the coveted award has more to do with a musician’s influence in Ghana than elsewhere.
“All of them have done very well but the Ghana Music Awards category isn’t about international music category so doing international concerts doesn’t qualify you to become the Artiste of the Year,” he noted.
“Winning Artiste of the Year is within Ghana and the impact you made here in Ghana and for solid 11 months Piesie’s Waye Me Yie has been topping charts.
“So if you are mentioning an artiste of the year is this artiste really accepted in the Ghanaian scope, Piesie deserves it and it’s as simple as that,” he concluded.
