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Our favorite African music website, Museke.com is having one of its proudest moments this Saturday on the occasion of the Afrotainment Museke Online Africa Music Awards. Read the press release announcing the performers, etc below Fally Ipupa and Viviane Ndour headline 2011 Afrotainment Museke Online African Music Awards performers! …. Angelique Kidjo to win Lifetime Achievement Award Afrotainment Family of Channels and Museke Inc have gone all out in ensuring that the first ever broadcasted Afrotainment Museke Online Africa Music Awards will be a mélange of African creativity. The event will fuse elements of dance, fashion and music in celebrating the best in African music, as chosen by the fans. A Celebration of African Creativity Rwandan-born Iyadede will join melodic Viviane Ndour of Senegal, Ghana’s own highly acclaimed wordsmith Blitz the Ambassador , Afropean sisters Les Nubians and the increasingly popular Congolese star Fally Ipupa will all be providing a

Below are the list of nominees for the Afrotainment-Museke Online Africa Music Awards Nominees 2011! The awards show will be held September 24 at the Afrotainment TV Studios in New York City. Vote today at www.moamas.com General categories Genre Categories Artiste of the year - 2Face Idibia -Nigeria Fally Ipupa - DRC Asa - Nigeria Maurice Kirya - Uganda Viviane Ndour - Senegal Kidumu - Burundi Professor - South Africa Male artiste of the year - 2Face Idibia -Nigeria Fally Ipupa - DRC Maurice Kirya - Uganda D’Banj - Nigeria Professor - South Africa DJ Arafat - Cote d’Ivoire Kidumu - Burundi Female artiste of the year - Nneka - Nigeria Asa - Nigeria Viviane Ndour - Senegal Juliana Kanyomozi - Uganda Patience Dabany - Gabon Angelique Kidjo - Benin Neyma - Mozambique Group of the year Liquideep - South Africa Freshlyground - South Africa P-Square - Nigeria Goodlyfe - Uganda TearGas - South Africa Toofan - Togo P-Unit - Kenya New Artiste Cabo Snoop - Angola Diamond - Tanzania Ice Prince -

A publicity push as this nears the end :-) ACCRA – JOHANNESBURG – NAIROBI – NEW YORK 8 AUGUST 2011 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE AFROTAINMENT MUSEKE ONLINE AFRICAN MUSIC AWARD NOMINEES ANNOUNCED Following a month of exhaustive deliberation with an esteemed Voters’ Academy made up of African DJ’s, bloggers, VJs and entertainment industry figures, the Afrotainment Museke Online African Music Awards are happy to announce the nominees for the second annual groundbreaking awards. The awards are aimed at giving fans across the continent and in the Diaspora a voice and a chance to contribute to the acknowledgement of some of the finest in African musical talent. Top Nominees Submissions were received from fans, artists, record labels and management representing the best and a lot of up-and-coming artists from around the continent and the Diaspora. Artists dominating nominations include South Africa’s Freshlyground , Nigeria’s 2Face Idibia , DRC’s Fally Ipupa and Senegal’s Viviane N’dour