22-year old Nonso Amadi who is a Canadian-based Afro R&B, Soul singer and producer from Nigeria has been dropped from the Headies Award nomination list.
Nonso Amadi
Smooth Promotions, the organiser’s of the Headies Award have made an update to the 2018 nominees list.
In a statement released today, some nominations were withdrawn and changes were made in some categories. Nonso Amadi’s ‘Tonight’ fell victim as the song was removed from ‘Best RnB Single’ and ‘Best Vocal Performance (Male)’ categories.
The statement reads: “The Headies secretariat officially write to correct the following nominations, which were given in error and are corrected as follows ‘Virtuous Woman’ by Flavour was produced by Cobhams not Mastakraft and Selebobo produced ‘Rara’, not Tekno.
‘”Tonight’ by Nonso Amadi was removed from ‘Best RnB Single’ and ‘Best Vocal Performance (Male)’ categories because it was released before the period under review.
“Mastakraft‘s nomination for Best Producer is ‘Yawa” and ”Augment”, while Cobhams is nominated for ”Butterflies” and ”Virtuous Woman”.