Kora Award Nomination for Suzanna

Suzanna Lubrano has once again been nominated for the prestigious Kora All Africa Music Award, the African equivalent of the Grammy.

Nine years ago, Suzanna Lubrano won the Kora Award for ‘Best African Female Artist’ of the year. This year, Suzanna Lubrano is nominated for “Best Artist of West Africa”. To get a chance to win the grand prize of “Best African Female Artist” of 2010-2012, Suzanna is first up against five other nominees in the “Best African Female Artist” category, including Senegalese Vivian N’Dour.

“Best Artist of West Africa’ is one of the 24 regional categories within the award ceremony. Nominees in other categories include Khaled, Magic System, D’Banj, Aster Aweke and Zahara. The Diaspora categories house names such as Beyonce, Rihanna, Nicki Minaj, Chris Brown and Tanya St. Val, who have all been nominated.

Kora Awards, founded in 1994 by businessman Ernest Adjovi from Benin, is considered the most prestigious pan-African music award, partly because they take maximum account of the great cultural diversity on the African continent. In earlier awards ceremonies, Nelson Mandela, Michael Jackson and Miriam Makeba have made an appearance. This year the awards ceremony will be held on December 29 in Abidjan, Ivory Coast, and will include an appearance by Chris Brown.

With a music career of some seventeen years, Suzanna Lubrano is especially popular in Portuguese-speaking Africa and the global Lambada-Zouk and Kizomba dance scene. Her latest release, “Tardi Di Mas’, is also a hit in several Francophone countries and territories in Africa and the Caribbean. Apart from Kora Award 2003, Suzanna has won numero us other music awards, including the Museke Online African Music Award 2010 for ‘Best African Artist in Diaspora’ and the Cabo Verde Music Award 2011 for ‘Best Zouk’ of the year. Several of her albums, have also reached gold and platinum status in Lusophone Africa.