The Midweek Sun

OB celebrates his Gospel music award

As he bags Best Male Gospel Artist Award consecutiv­ely

- BY IRENE SHONE

Obakeng Sengwakets­e needs no introducti­on in the local Gospel space. He bags an award every year for his impressive music and therefore found it fit to celebrate this noticeable win this year.

The legendary musician will be hosting a thanksgivi­ng event dubbed ‘Award celebratio­n’ this year on December 9th. He recalls that on each awards he is nominated in, he never walks away empty handed.

This he says is all made possible by his followers and fans who consistent­ly vote for him and ensures that he wins.

“I just paused for a moment and acknowledg­ed that winning awards, especially every year is something I shouldn’t take for granted. This shows that my music touches people’s lives and they appreciate my talent,” said Sengwakets­e. He has won Best Male Award three times, Best Traditiona­l Gospel Album four times, Album of the Year once and Song of the Year once.

“This celebrator­y day will therefore be all about giving thanks to everyone that has been supporting me as a musician, especially during the voting process of every Awards every year,” he said, emphasisin­g that they would be celebratin­g the awards that he has won over the years. However, he said that this event was also motivated by him winning ‘Best Male Gospel Artist Award’ consecutiv­ely.

“I have various awards from the local prestigiou­s gospel awards but I’m delighted by especially winning the best male gospel artist award consecutiv­ely, so we will be more into celebratin­g this recent achievemen­t,” he said.

He could not hide his excitement over this and noted that this means a lot to him as it places him as the best and fairest of them all and he does not take this lightly.

“We have invited a couple of artists from different genres of music to make this event a real celebrator­y occasion. We thought that this is not just all about gospel music but about the support we get from people,” he explained.

The event is scheduled to take place in Kanye where the artiste of note was born and raised.

It would be held at

Irish shopping center in Kanye. Some of the artistes that would be performing at the event include; Kgokgonono and Rahube, Tawana ya Koma, Smokie DF, DJ Twaza, DJ Clippers, DJ Tebza, BIG Jay, Tinerman Kwaito, Mmaratwa le Tankana

and Matheke Leteane.

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Obakeng Sengwakets­e

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