The international jury of All Africa Music Awards (AFRIMA) has announced three new categories for the 2021 edition which include best soundtrack in a movie, series or documentary, best global act and breakout artiste of the year (renaming most promising artist).
The approval was made in a virtual meeting between the committee and jury on March 2, 2021. The jury noted that the new categories were selected to capture all aspects of music including its utilisation in the movie industry and in recognition of the waves being made by African artistes in the world. The addition of these three categories brings the total to 40 award categories.
While announcing the categories, Hadja Kobele a member of the jury stated that the scope of the music industry is becoming broad thus the need for inclusion and talent recognition.
“The scope of the music industry is becoming increasingly broad, with multiple expressions of music and complex production techniques becoming more popular and it is AFRIMA’s mandate to support the music industry in Africa, thus, the need to recognize and reward some of these talented productions,” she said.
The notice of the new award categories follows the commencement of submission of entries which closes on August 20, 2021, at www.afrima.org, where artists, disc jockeys, music producers, songwriters, dancers, choreographers, and video directors submit their works which must be produced or released in the year in review from June 1, 2020, to August 20, 2021, for a chance to be nominated.
