Dentaa Amoateng: Ghanaian Woman Who Was Influential In Ghana’s Recognition At The Grammys

• A new award category, Best African Music Performance, has been introduced in the Grammy Awards
• The genres considered in the category include Highlife and Ghanaian Drill, among others
• It has come out that Dentaa Amoateng, a Ghanaian media personality, used her relationships with major stakeholders to put Ghana music on the map

Ghanaian entrepreneur and media personality Dentaa Amoateng is said to be the brain behind the recognition of Ghanaian genres in the new Grammy category, Best African Music Performance.

The genres considered under the new award category are Highlife, Ghanaian Drill and other African genres, including Afrobeat, Afro-fusion, Afro-Pop, Afrobeats, Alte, Amapiano, Bongo Flava, Genge, Kizomba, Chimurenga, Fuji, Kwassa, Ndombolo, Mapouka, Afro-House, South African Hip-hop and Ethio Jazz.

Artiste manager, Lawrence Nana Asiamah Hanson, widely known as Bullgod, made this revelation.

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He said Ghanaians must applaud Dentaa, who he believes played a critical role in Ghana’s genres getting recognised by the biggest music awards in the world.

According to a tweet on the HitzFM's Twitter account, Bullgod said, “Highlife, Ghanaian drill captured in new Grammy category: One of the people we need to be thankful for is Dentaa.”

The Best African Music Performance category will debut in the 2024 Grammy edition. The Recording Academy, organisers of the Grammy Awards, announced this on Tuesday, June 13, 2024.

Dentaa Amoateng is known to have good international connections, and one of them is the Recording Academy CEO, Harvey Mason Jr.

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Earlier this year, Dentaa secured an invitation for three Ghanaian artistes to attend the 65th Annual Grammy Awards in Los Angeles: BET Award winner, Stonebwoy, rapper Edem and former Artiste of the Year Kidi.

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Dentaa said in an earlier interview on Accra-based Joy FM that she asked Harvey to allow a few Ghanaian artistes to come to the Grammys.

“I was like, Harvey can I get an invite for some of these African artistes to come to the Grammys? There aren't many Ghanaians that get the opportunity to attend, so if I am going to go, I want to go with my African brothers and sisters.”

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Meanwhile, Ghanaian singer Camidoh, also known as Raphael Camidoh Kofi Attachie, has been nominated for the 2023 BET Awards in the Best New International Act (Viewer's Choice) category. The nomination was announced in a statement on the official website of BET on Thursday, June 8, 2023.

Source: YEN.com.gh