QUONFUZED BY CONFUSION

Maria Chiguvari

UK-BASED Zim dancehall artist, Qounfuzed, has cleared the air over the confusion generated at the Zimbabwe Music Awards held last Saturday.

This follows the awards organisers’ decision to snub him from the nomination list.

In an interview with H-Metro, Qounfuzed said he was contacted by the ZIMA representatives to submit his work.

Qounfuzed said he was told that a technical error occurred leading to him not being nominated in any of the categories.

“I did submit my work days before the nomination, but when the nominees list was out, my name wasn’t there.

“I contacted the ZIMA offices and was told that they will address the issue.

“I kept calling them asking what had happened and how it was going to be fixed but it was lies after lies,” he said.

He added:

“Later on, the (ZIMA 23 organisers) gave me a guy to talk to whose name is Marshall and the guy told me he was busy.

“That was the end of our conversation.

“I was then contacted by Kushy and he told me that my name was now included on the nomination list.

“When I talked to Kushy he said my name was going to be in the Song of the Year category.

“I even asked about the whole process, who determines the winner but I was told not to worry.

“I have about 40 phone calls with them, when the awards ended I told them that I was going to post everything on Facebook, that is when they issued a statement to apologise.”

The Kamunamato Kekubhawa singer is one of the artists who have been doing well on the club scene.