{{Rwanda\u2019s dancehall artist Crispin Ngabirama is organizing a concert to award local reggae artists whom he claims have been abandoned in various local music awards.}}<\/p>\n
Among the awards he criticized is Salax, a yearly reward given to local musicians, but minimal or no recognition is shown to reggae musicians. <\/p>\n
Those mainly favored include; genres related to R&B, Hip-hop, Afro-beat and traditional.<\/p>\n
Attempting to respond to the matter, the chief organizer of Salax awards Mike Karangwa disagreed with Ngabirama\u2019s argument adding that most local reggae musicians show a lesser will in the competitions.<\/p>\n
\u201cI can\u2019t be blamed for a group of musicians who are hesitant to compete. The contests are open to all musicians irrespective of their type of music. <\/p>\n
Though the category of reggae is not indicated in our categories we still classify Reggae under Afro-fusion since both genres have a lot in common,\u201d he explained.<\/p>\n
Ngabirama, who is gaining popularity for his latest hit \u2018Dieu d\u2019Afrique\u2019 is not satisfied and wants full recognition of Reggae musicians. <\/p>\n
Currently he is having talks with renowned reggae band members from Holly Jah Doves and musician Ben Rutabana on how to organize a concert to award reggae artists.<\/p>\n
He further points out that Reggae songs are more advantageous compared to other genres since they portray educative messages which are especially based on behavior change, unlike R&B which talks about romance and love.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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