List Of Winners Of “TGMA Artiste of The Year” Since 1999



The Telecel Ghana Music Awards, formerly Vodafone Ghana Music Awards remains the biggest music awards event in Ghana.

The 26th TGMA was recently held at the Accra International Conference Center, where numerous deserving musicians were acknowledged and rewarded.

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The category that many Ghanaians anticipated to see the winner was the “Artiste of the Year”, where “Paris” hitmaker, King Promise stood tall among his competitors:

Meanwhile, this article focuses on the full list of TGMA “Artiste of the Year” winners since 1999.

  1. 1999- Akyeame
  2. ⁠2000- Daddy Lumba
  3. ⁠2001- Kojo Antwi
  4. ⁠2002- Lord Kenya
  5. ⁠2003- Kontihene
  6. ⁠2004- VIP
  7. ⁠2005- Obour
  8. ⁠2006- Ofori Amponsah
  9. ⁠2007- Samini
  10. ⁠2008- Kwaw Kese
  11. ⁠2009- Okyeame Kwame
  12. ⁠2010- Sarkodie
  13. ⁠2011- VIP
  14. ⁠2012- Sarkodie
  15. ⁠2013- R2Bees
  16. ⁠2014- Shatta Wale
  17. 2015- Stonebwoy
  18. ⁠2016- EL
  19. ⁠2017- Joe Mettle
  20. ⁠2018- Ebony Reigns
  21. ⁠2019- No winner announced
  22. ⁠2020- Kuami Eugene
  23. ⁠2021- Diana Hamilton
  24. ⁠2022- Kidi
  25. ⁠2023- Black Sherif
  26. ⁠2024- Stonebwoy
  27. ⁠2025- King Promise

Listed beneath are also, the full winners of the TGMA26;

  1. Unsung Artiste of the Year: Yaw Darling
  2. ⁠Best Hiplife Song of the Year: Bad Feelins by Tulenkey
  3. ⁠Best Male Vocalist of the Year: Joe Mettle
  4. ⁠Best Female Vocal Performance: Esther Godwyll
  5. ⁠Best Highlife Song of the Year: King Paluta: Makoma
  6. ⁠Best Hiphop Song of the Year: Kweku Smoke (Holy Ghost)
  7. ⁠Best Collaboration of the Year: KiDi ft Black Sherif(Lomolomo)
  8. ⁠Best International Collaboration of the Year: Diana Hamilton ft Mercy Chinwo (This is the Doing of the Lord)
  9. ⁠Best Afropop Song of the Year: King Promise (Paris)
  10. ⁠Lifetime Achievement Award: Yaw Sarpong and the Asomafo band.
  11. ⁠Best Traditional Song of the Year: Empress Gifty(Watch Me)
  12. ⁠Best Afrobeats Song of the Year: OliveTheBoy(Asylum)
  13. ⁠Best Video of the Year: Stonebwoy(Jerejere)
  14. ⁠Best Gospel Artiste: Joe Mettle
  15. ⁠Producer of the Year: Khendi Beatz (Aseda)
  16. ⁠Best Afropop/Afrobeats Artiste of the Year: King Promise
  17. ⁠Best Urban /Contemporary Gospel: Team Eternity Ghana
  18. ⁠Best African Song of the Year: Tshwala Bam by Burna Boy, TitoM and Yuppe
  19. ⁠Best Highlife Artiste of the Year: Fameye
  20. ⁠Songwriter of the Year: Kofi Kinaata(Saman)
  21. ⁠Rap Performance of the Year: Kweku Smoke
  22. ⁠Best Reggae/Dancehall Artiste: Stonebwoy
  23. ⁠Group of the Year: Team Eternity Ghana
  24. ⁠Best Hiplife/Hiphop Artiste of the Year: Kweku Smoke
  25. ⁠Best Reggae/ Dancehall Song of the Year: Stonebwoy
  26. ⁠Best Album/EP of the Year: King Promise
  27. ⁠Record/Best Sound of the Year: Ayisi(Can I live)
  28. ⁠Best New Artiste of the Year: Beeztrap
  29. ⁠Music for Development: Epixode
  30. ⁠Most Popular Song of the Year: Aseda(King Paluta)
  31. ⁠Artiste of the Year: King Promise

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