2nd Annual Liberian Music Award Review/Winners/Photos

Liberia music Awards mission statement: The Liberia Music Awards ceremony is a premiere effort promoting the rich Liberian music worldwide, thus reaching out to millions of fans, and propelling African music to glorious pinnacles beyond the four corners of Africa. It is our main aim to constantly endeavour to showcase to the rest of the world the wealth of talent Liberian Acts have to offer.

Artist Douk D’ Lib, radio show host at (L.I.B Ay Waste) Beans Gutt, and soccer player Chris Waleh and myself arrived in Atlanta, Georgia on Friday evening at Hotel Marrietta GA. That same day things were out of place, but hey, we handled it like bosses do. At 6:30pm we attended the movie premiere “Jack and Joe in Accra.” Not a lot of people showed up, but the fewer people that attended had a great time laughing from start to end of the movie. Producer, director and actor Jay U Boy and his team did a tremendeous job with the productions.

Watch “Jack and Joe in Accra trailer here

Next premiere date will be on July 18, 2015 in Philadelphia, pa. Please click flyer for more information. Thanks!

The welcome party was really fun. This is where I finally got the chance to stop being so boring and loosen up and just have some fun with the stars, guests, fans and of course DJ Shine the Beast and Dj-Ant Flahn played Liberian artists’ music all night long. There were few times foreign music played, but we were all perfectly fine with it. It felt good hearing your country music all night long. Model Valentino Lucas was the host that day and he did well calling out artist name.

LMA Review: Have you ever been to an awards show and felt like you were the show stopper? Well, attending the Liberia music award will make you feel exactly that. I’m talking about our stars guys. I mean am not saying that guests are treated badly, I am simply saying that guests are entertained well by the stars. Our (Liberian) musicians are truly gifted, I bet you did not know that right? It’s ok. It will be an honor to educate you about our growing entertainment industry and her talents. I know your answer was probably yes. Seeing one on Facebook, instagram, Youtube or television is totally different than physically being there while they perform. At the Liberia Music Awards (LMA), every thing is about the artists, yes, it’s a fact! Last year, many of the Liberian celebrities like Pitty D’ Best, D12, David Mell, Shadow, Tan Tan, Bernice Blackie and Infectious Michael were all brought by Kaifa Yamah (LMA founder) to the United States just for the event.

One of the main reasons we promote Liberian stars and their work is because Mama Liberia have so much talents that need to be embrace by the international market. The 2nd annual Liberia music award (LMA) was held on June 27th 2015 in Atlanta, Georgia at Kennesaw State University, formerly known as Southern Polytechnic State. Of course, there were the bad, the ugly and of course the great. I choose to speak about the great because as human we always have to see the good in everything we do and speak life into it. The red carpet was hosted by me, yours truly (Liberian stars view First Lady) Aspiring Actress Cece Maintain from the (Maintain Show) and the lovely Samantha Tapfumaneyi from London. Gosh, her accent is lovely as she is. Excuse me, I got a little carried away by having random flashback. lol. Alright, after we got done interviewing almost every artist that attended the event, we went to get some food because we were hungry and my feet were killing me! When I attend an event that is about celebrities, I only interview stars and not the guests. Sometimes I interview guests to know what their thoughts about the event or whatever they have to say. But I usually love to interview stars because we as the media constantly need to share our information with our audiences. I mean this is how we the media survive. If an event is about the guest(s) it will have said that, but it did not so most of the time my focus be on the stars and that’s just me being honest. When you attend a Liberian gathering, I guarantee every guest at Liberian gathering would love to be interviewed by the red carpet host. it’s a fact! I have had similar experienced at the Liberian entertainment awards (LEA) and I did not like it.

Back to our review: Every artist that performed at the LMA did an amazing job “wowing” the crowd. Judging from some of their faces, they were like wow! “I can’t believe that these guys are from our country.” The crowd was mixed with young, and older, professionals and non-professionals. I met some great Liberian(s) that back in the days couldn’t even stand in public and tell someone who they are. So now you see why I choose to speak about the great? What these organizations like LMA and LEA plus the entertainers are doing great things. We need to continue to show support, appreciate and help them improve in their work until we completely established as an well-know entertainment industry like Hollywood, Bollywood, Nollywood and Gollywood. Some of my personal favorite performers at the show were; Friday the Cellphone Man, Pitty D’ Best, Peter G, Roland Ross, Tracey Danielle Jones, Ms. Menneh, Sis Marie, D12, G-Rize, Yung Muse, Jyounkonde Suah Lady Mouthphy. I was a lot disappointed when Friday The Cellphone Man and Lady Mouthphy performance got cut short. Friday was confused to get off the stage because everyone was calling him back including myself. lol.. But then again, I think because the time was running out. Let truth be told, Africans are always late. Yes, they were late for the red carpet. Including some celebrities. Some of the guests that presented the awards to our stars did not know who they were and what genre of music they do. To be honest, I was very irritated by this. Lets pray this doesn’t repeat itself next year. Some of the artists that won were not there to pick up their award(s). I mean some were definitely excused because they got denied visa and some simply decided not to show up for the award show. Sometimes it is better to see things for yourself rather than listening to ‘they say” “I Say” or “You Say.” Moving forward to the after party. I mean, I have nothing negative to say about the after party.

The after party follow by Yung Muse, 2C, Peter G performance and then one of our red carpet hosts (Cece Maintain) was a bit upset because the male musicians were dominating that night so she asked the host for Lady Mouthphy to perform and she did. I was glad Ms. Mouthphy finally got up there and blessed us with her wonderful voice. Girlfriend was in a one-piece bikini flaunting her curves everywhere!

Meet the Red carpet hosts