Gambia: T-Smallz Grabs Gambian Song of the Year 2013 Award

Posted on January 4, 2014

A song by Gambia’s rising sensation T-Smallz entitled ‘Albulo’ a local Mandinka parlance meaning ‘Clap’, has hit the spotlight again after edging over other songs to earned him Gambian Song of the Year 2013 award.

The song emerged victorious following a stiff competition, voting of which was done online on Gambian Talents Promotions website and on Banjul Night Live on GRTS. Courtesy of Banjul Night Live and The Gambian Talents Promotions, the voting process has been on for six weeks .

According to information gathered by What’s On, the voting process was very interesting as Gibou Balla Gaye was leading for the first-three weeks before Killa Ace took over the chart for a whole week, and Gee later made a comeback. Trobul Smallz during the initial stage of polls has maintained the third place until recently, when he progressed by leading every one including Gee with more than 800 votes, which he maintained for the rest of the voting period. Voting was done through the Gambian Talents website and through Banjul Night Live’s ‘Word on the Street’ segment.

T Smallz won with 24.6% of the total votes on the website and BNL ‘Word on the Streets. Reacting to the development, Pa Ousman Joof, the CEO of Gambian Talents Promotions, on behalf of his agency and Banjul Night Live, congratulated T-Smallz and all the nominees including those who could not make it to the final list. Joof added that a special award ceremony will be held on the Banjul Night Live TV show, stating that this will be done on Sunday January 5th 2013 at the Velvet Club in Senegambia starting at 5pm.

All the nominees will be invited and T-Smallz will be presented with a trophy, a certificate and cash prize. More information about the award ceremony will follow soon. Some of the songs selected for this years’ award include; ‘Albulo’ meaning clap by Trobul Smallz; ‘Mama’ by Killa Ace; Bul Faleh Nyi by Gee; Swag song by Vypa; ‘Damayi’ by Bai Babou; ‘Yenla’ by the Humanity Starz; ‘Red Card’ by Silky Crise; ‘Nnan Kamma’ (take me away) by Manding Morry;’Njunku’ by ST Gambian Dream; and ‘Dream Boy’ by Cess Ngum.

‘I talked to several artists based in different parts of the world. If you follow the podcast, used you will hear my interview with a lot of the nominated artists such as Killa Ace, Bai Babou, Humanity Starz, Vypa, T-Smallz etc” said Joof.

– The Daily Observer