Yes, he was heavily trolled last year on both social and traditional media for losing out on Vodafone Ghana Music Awards’ “Artiste Of The Year” Category but he came back stronger this year and won the coveted category, among 3 other awards.
Kidi also won “Most Popular Song Of The Year”, “Reggae/Dancehall Song Of The Year”, “Album Of The Year” category as we all as — makes it 4 awards he won on the night last Saturday at the VGMAs.
Below is a full list of Winners – for both Industry Awards & Main Night.
Winners — Main Night
Gospel song of the year
Ohemaa Mercy
Hip Hop song of the Year
Black Sheriff Second Sermon
Hiplife Song of the Year
Okyeame Kwame – Yeeko
Best international Collaboration
Gyakie – Forever Remix
Gospel Artiste of the year
Joe Metle
Hip hop / Hip-life artiste of the year
Sarkodie
Highlife Artiste of the year
Akwaboa
Afro Pop song of the year
Fameye
Reggae / Dancehall song of the year
KiDi – Touch It
Best Collaboration of the year
Enjoyment – D Black
Best Afro beat Afro Pop artiste of the year
KiDi
Best Reggae / Dancehall artiste of the year
Stonebwoy
Best Rap Performance
Lyrical Joe
Best Highlife Song of the Year
Kofi Kinata – Thu Grace
Best Afro Beat song of the year
Sefa – E Choke
Record of the year
Ama Ray
Audio engineer of the year
Sound Engineer for Ama Ray
New Artiste of the year
Black Sherif
Album and EP of the year
KiDi – Golden Boy
Vodafone Green Awards
Stonebwoy
Most popular song of the year
KiDi – Touch It
Artiste of the year
KIDi
Winners – Industry Awards
Male Vocalist of the year
Kwesi Pee
Female Vocalist of the year
Noella
Unsung Artist
Gambo
Songwriter of the year
Fameye
Video of the year
Bosom Peyoung 2 plaques
Instrumentalist Of the year
Joshua Mozi
Music for Good
Stonebwoy
Producer of the year
MOG Beats
African artiste of the year
Wizkid
Traditional artiste of the year
Nii Tetteh Tetteh – Kusoom
Elorm Beenie is an experienced Public Relations Officer and Author with a demonstrated history of working in the music industry.
He holds an enviable record of working directly and running PR jobs for both international and local artistes; notable among his huge repertoire of artistes worked with are Morgan Heritage (Grammy Winners), Rocky Dawuni (Grammy Nominee, 2015), Samini (MOBO Winner - 2006, MTV Awards Africa Winner - 2009) and Stonebwoy (BET Best African Act Winner - 2015). Other mainstream artistes of great repute he has worked with are Kaakie, Kofi Kinaata, Teephlow, (just to name a few), who have all won multiple awards under Vodafone GHANA Music Awards (VGMAs).
Elorm Beenie has done PR & road jobs for Sizzla, Jah Mason, Busy Signal, Kiprich, Anthony B, Demarco, Turbulence, Popcaan, Jah Vinci & Morgan Heritage who came to Ghana for concerts and other activities.
Elorm Beenie has done countless activations for artistes and has coordinated dozens of events both locally and internationally. He deeply understands the rudiments of the industry.
His passion for the profession is enormous. Aside his PR duties, he also stands tall as one of the few bloggers who breakout first hand credible and also dig out substantial information relating to the arts & industry. He is quite visible in the industry and very influential on social media, which to his advantage, has gunned a massive following for him on social media as well as in real life.
He is a strong media and communication professional skilled in Coaching, Strategic Planning, and Event Management.
He's very transparent on issues around the art industry.