NAMA Executive Chairperson, Umbi Karuaihe-Upi says that the NAMA Executive has taken note of various artists who expressed their unhappiness with the double nomination of Gazza into the Best Music Video category for a song previously released and entered into the NAMAs. Umbi Karuaihe-Upi says that the NAMA rules generally state that all albums entered into the NAMAs 2018 should have been released between 1 December 2016 and 31 November 2017. The NAMA rules do not specifically prohibit music videos from previously entered albums to be entered into the best music video category. However, as it pertains to the Best Music Video category, the rules do not specify or prohibit that a music video must be released at the same time as the song was released, but state that Best Music Video is one of the categories excluded from this general rule. Karuaihe-Upi further stated that although both videos entered by Gazza qualifies for nomination, NAMAs has never allowed one artist to enter in one category twice. “Therefore it was not correct to qualify two entries of the same artist into the same category. In this case, the artist concerned must select one entry between the two nominated entries and the next music video that was in line will take that spot” Karuaihe-Upi. Sally Boss Madam’s ‘What You Say’ replaces Gazza’s ‘Abangani Bako’ in the best music video category.
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