Beat"; taking everybody down
memory lane, and dedicating
the music awards to the iconic
late, former South African
president, Nelson Mandela. A
medley of kwaito hits from the
early nineties brought audiences
to their feet with featured
performances by Thebe, who
sang “Groovers Prayer”, and Zola
history". And that was thanks
to the selfie she took with
some of the nominees which
caused a buzz on social media.
For starters, the first time
Hollywood conferred its top
honor to the work of a
black director; and seeing that
"12 Years A Slave" won the
award for the Best Picture.
Lupita Nyong'o won her first
Oscar for Best Supporting
Actress giving the film a total
of three awards,
which also included best
adapted screenplay. “Gravity”
won seven, the most of any
film.
Metro FM
The first weekend of March
was very eventful and one of
the important events was
down in Durban at the 13th
Metro FM awards. Hosted by
RGB presenters, Phat Joe and
Pearl Thusi, this year's theme
was "Celebrating 20 Years of
with Unathi Msengana
performed “Sana
Lwami”. Mafikizolo won the best
group, best African pop album
and best produced album
awards for “Reunited”,
whilst Khuli Chana and Uhuru
also walked away with
two awards each, with Uhuru
winning the coveted Song of the
Year award for their hit song
“Ytjukutja” ,voted by the public.
Producers Oskido and Robbie
Malinga received the lifetime
achievement award.
NAMA
Like all awards shows, there is
always that one individual, (or
group) who have an incredible
night by scooping the largest
number of awards and the
NAMAs were no exception,
having most of the awards going
to Jah Prayzah, who went home
with four awards with each
worth $2 000 and a hamper
containing various goodies.
Lucky guy!
Young Innovators
Google Africa Connected ran a
competition aimed at
discovering and promoting
amazing successes achieved on
the web across Africa, through
Groove Magazine Zimbabwe
innovations. The top five
most inspiring and
innovative web-based
projects in Africa would win
a prize that included getting
$25,000 and expert
assistance from Google in the
use of it’s tools for their
business .The Google
Africa Awards were held in
in Nairobi, Kenya, where the
Google top 5 were
announced.
Thanks to the online votes
via google, Zimbabwe’s ,
Nqobizitha “Enqore” Mlilo,
was a runner-up in the
competition. It is good to
realize that our country has
some talented , innovative
young people who are using
technology, not only for the
benefit and growth of their
businesses, but as a way of
developing the country.
Groove Magazine @ 1!
The journey has been long
and we still have a long way
to go, but gladly after a year
the magazine is thriving and
building what is defined as
the beat of the nation!
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