Balafon Music Awards or BMA are awards given each year by Radio Balafon to the best artists and promoters of music in Cameroon.  For the 2017 Edition of the Award show  there were 11 categories with Cameroon’s very best nominated in each of the Categories.

The 2017 Edition took place in DOUALA PLACE SAINT DAVID in BONANJO on December 13th and with  almost all of the nominees present. Tenor was the man of the night as he grabbed 3 trophies out of 5 Norminations , Mr Leo, Daphne , Locko  are some of the names who grabed an award  in this years edition. A suprise for the night was the Balafon Special Award that was handed to the Alpha Better Records Music Label  for the great job the Label is doing  in Promoting  Camneroonian culture.

Below are the full list of the winners  in this years edition.

MEILLEURE CHANSON D’INSPIRATION DIVINE

Locko  – Thank you lord (Winner 250,000 FCFA)

MEILLEURE CHANSON D’INSPIRATION TRADITIONNELLE

Jumeaux (DJ GERARD BEN)  (Winner 250,000 FCFA)

REVELATION MUSICALE DE L’ANNEE

TENOR (Winner 250,000 FCFA)

VIDEO-CLIP DE L’ANNEE

Bad things (TENOR) (Winner 250,000 FCFA)

MEILLEURE COLLABORATION

Supporter (LOCKO/Mr LEO)  (Winner 250,000 FCFA)

CHANSON DE L’ANNEE

Calé (DAPHNE) (Winner 250,000 FCFA)

VOIX FEMININE DE L’ANNEE

DAPHNE (Winner 250,000 FCFA)

VOIX MASCULINE DE L’ANNEE

Mr LEO (Winner 250,000 FCFA)

MEILLEUR MAXI SINGLE/EP DE L’ANNEE

(Mr Leo)  (Winner 250,000 FCFA)

ALBUM DE L’ANNEE

Fleurs et Venus (SERGEO POLO) (Winner 250,000 FCFA)

ARTISTE DE L’ANNEE

TENOR (Winner 500,000 FCFA)

Balafon Special

Alpha Better Records. (Winner 250,000 FCFA)

Prix d’honneur: Aladji Touré, Nkotti François, Toto Guillaume

 

 

Written by:

Emmanuel Mfon