10th Annual Groove Awards...Ghana's Ohemaa Mercy Guns For Western Africa Artiste
She is one of the country's finest female gospel artistes and goes by the name Mercy Twum Ampofo popularly known on the gospel music scene as Ohemaa Mercy.
A teacher by profession, she has strived to become a great force in Ghana’s gospel industry. This radio-show host debuted into the industry with the vision to encourage, to win souls for the Kingdom of God, and to draw the attention of his listeners to Jesus through her music. While enjoying massive airplay and numerous awards to her name, this songbird remains resilient about her role as apostle of the Gospel of Jesus.
As Groove Awards celebrate this year’s annual Gospel award show in Kenya, Ghana's Ohemaa Mercy has received a nomination in the category for Western Africa Artiste of the Year scheduled to come off at the Machakos People’s Park in Kenya on Monday, June 1.
Her outstanding talent puts her in the same category with Frank Edwards-Nigeria, Lara George- Nigeria, Nathaniel Bassey- Nigeria, Sinach- Nigeria and Solomon Lange- Nigeria who are also battling for the same crown.
Groove Awards is the annual awards ceremony held annually. It seeks to promote, expose and celebrate outstanding Gospel Artists.
Founded in 2004, Groove Awards has honoured over 600 artists and groups and handed out hundreds of statuettes.
The Objectives of Groove Awards are to:
Promote and connect Gospel artists across Africa
Open doors for upcoming aspiring singers, songwriters and musicians
Create benchmarks and help raise the standards in the music industry
Promote local Gospel artists and their music to a global audience
Unite gospel musicians through celebrating excellence in music
The prolific singer's releases attracted seven nominations for the 2006 Ghana Music Awards but couldn’t win any of the awards. She later won the ‘Discovery of The Year’ in the gospel music category in the same year.
In 2007 Ohemaa released a new album entitled, ‘Edin Jesus’ and the album was very successful, as over 875,000 copies of the CDs were sold in 2008.
This album won Ohemaa 10 nominations for the 2008 Ghana Music Awards. It was the highest number of nominations so far in respect of a single album in the history of the Awards Scheme. She won three of the major trophies.
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