Glamour and exquisite thrill was back at it again at the HiPipo Awards on Saturday at Serena Hotel in Kampala. The 4th Annual Hipipo Music Awards saw surprises and disappointments as excited camps from various artists walked away with awards of the night.
The lots of performances that were lined up came in handy while others were merely a disappointment. The night’s MC Amooti left the crowd choking with enormous dosage of laughter. The captivating performance was of a one Jan Lion a blind upcoming artist who moved the crowd with his ‘Disability Is not inability’ song.
Samalie Matovu of the “Omukwano Gunyuma” fame made a surprise appearance and only reminded guests of her one hit. The surprise winner of the night was David Lutalo walking away with the Artiste of the Year accolade. Bebe Cool bagged three accolades for Album of the Year, Best Reggae song and Most Active Fanbase of the years (Gagamel).
Giant smartphone maker Huawei blessed every winner with a Huawei P8Lite smartphone with amazing offers from the main sponsor, MTN Uganda.
Below is the list of those who walked away with various accolades.
Best Audio Producer-Dr Fizol
Best Video Producer-Savy Films – Sasha Vybz
Best Songwriter-Moses Radio
Best Hip Hop Song-Kigozi (Iko Hivi) by Navio
Best RnB Song-Linda by Rema and Chris Evans
Best Ragga Dancehall Song-Friendly Match by Ziza Bafana & Zanie Brown
Best Reggae Song-Go Mama by Bebe Cool
Best Religious Song-Saum Kareem by Swahaba Kasumba
Best Band Song-Nkuze by Maureen Nantume
Best Folk/Kadongo Kamu Song-Akalulu by Saava Karim
Best Zouk Song-Memories by A Pass & Lillian Mbabazi
Best Afrobeat Song-Mpulunguse by Diana Nalubega
Best Afropop Song-Tusasanya by Prof. Big Eye
Best Regional Song-Go on – Pine Avenue 5 All Stars and Barbi Jay (North)
Best DJ-DJ Shiru
East Africa Best Video-Nana by Diamond Platnumz Ft Mr Flavour (Tanzania)
East Africa Super Hit-Nana by Diamond Platnumz (Tanzania)
Most Active Fans Group-Gagamel Phamily
Artist of the Year-David Lutalo
Best Male Artist-David Lutalo
Best Female Artist-Sheebah Karungi
Best Music Group-Radio and Weasel
Best Breakthrough Artist-Winnie Nwagi
Album of the Year-Go Mama by Bebe Cool
Video of the Year-Siri Zari by Sheebah
Song of the Year-Juicy by Radio and Weasel
Winner of Convertible Peugeot 207 -Igama Benedict.
Life Time Achievement Award.-Paul Saaka.
Video Trailblazer Award-Triplets (Ghetto kids).
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