Fancy Gadam Deserved Artiste Of The Year Nomination – Manager Bemoans

Since the announcement and unveiling of the nominees for the 2018 VGMAs, some artistes have been expressing their disappointment.

According to them, they worked hard enough to have qualified for this or that category.Hence, they feel cheated in one way or the other.

One of such artistes is Tamale based Afro Pop/hiplife artiste, Fancy Gadam. Fancy Gadam believes he should have been nominated in the Artiste of the Year category as well as Best Collaboration.

Fancy’s Manager, Jamal Bamba made this revelation when he was speaking to Showbiz on behalf of

According to Jamal, his artiste was over qualified to be in the Artiste of the Year category.

“We were all expecting that Fancy Gadam will be nominated in the Artiste of the Year category because he worked hard in the year under review and had it all going well for him so we are wondering why he was not nominated in that category,” he said.

“The fans are more disappointed than Fancy Gadam himself, they feel it in their bone because they feel he is over qualified.” He added.

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He however believes that his artiste was not nominated because he is Tamale based. “If Accra was Tamale and Tamale was Accra, he would have had an upper hand, he would have been comparable to none,” he noted.

He also added that Fancy Gadam not being nominated for the artiste of the year is not the only thing that shocks them. According to him, that fact that he did not also make it in the Best Collaboration category also surprises them. This he related to that fact that his collaboration with Sarkodie, Total Cheat was a big hit.

“How is that possible? Everyone will agree with me that Total Cheat was a big hit and should have made it in the Best Collaboration category,” he said.

Nevertheless, Jamal said that Fancy’s brand is not all about awards but numbers. And since they’ve got the crowd, they’re cool with it.

“Having said that, I would like to make it clear that the Fancy Gadam brand is not really about awards.  It’s about the numbers and he’s got the numbers, no wonder he fills up venues with 60,000 and more people,” he said.

Fancy Gadam filed for four categories and was nominated in two. These are; Hiplife Song of the Year and Most Popular Song of the Year.

Jamal hinted that Fancy Gadam has a soon-to-be-released collaboration with Mr Eazzi titled ‘Yakachana’ (Where You Dey Go).

He also anounced that he done collaborations with Stonebwoy and Mugeez of R2Bees fame which will be released soon.

He urged all fans of Fancy Gadam not to be disappointed but to watch out for more hit songs this year.

“We want to assure his numerous fans that he will come out with more hit songs so they should watch out,” he said