Rwandan DJ ERIC SOUL nominated Best DJ Of The Year @ MOAMAS 2011 -

CAST YOUR VOTE FOR DJ ERIC SOUL NOMINATED AS BEST DJ OF THE YEAR AT THE MUSEKE ONLINE MUSIC AWARDS 2011.


AFROTAINMENT MUSEKE ONLINE AFRICAN MUSIC AWARD ANNOUNCED THE NOMINEES FOR 2011.
Following a month of exhaustive deliberation with an esteemed Voters’ Academy made up of African DJ’s, bloggers, VJs and entertainment industry figures, the Afrotainment Museke Online African Music Awards are happy to announce the nominees for the second annual groundbreaking awards. The awards are aimed at giving fans across the continent and in the Diaspora a voice and a chance to contribute to the acknowledgement of some of the finest in African musical talent.


The DJ of the Year category shows respect to DJs across the continent that have played a part in developing their respective genres and also command respect locally and cross-borders.
Visit: www.moamas.com/ for full list of nominees


Eric Soul itinary:
After a spiritual and cultural awakenning during a three month stay in post-war Rwanda as a resident DJ in Kigali, the capital of his native country. Eric Soul embarked on a musical crusade and landed in the headcity of clubculture  - London - The mission?

• Make Afro music and culture economically relevant, hip & sexy again to new generation of African and its Diaspora
• Use this as a communication vehicle to trigger positive social changes!  
• Elevate his country cultural profile to its deserved statut. 

Upon arrival in London, Eric Soul founded and developed AFROGROOV from a DJ music policy to a succesful and inspiring monthly platform of cultural expression to an international company delivering DJ-led music events, multi media art, a TV show, workshops and ground-breaking live performances. He performs as a DJ/artist on a variety of world stages such as Notting Hill Carnival, Printemps de Bourges, Womex, WOMAD, Sauti Za Busara festival (Tanzania), Lake Of Stars (Malawi), official launch party for the Football World Cup (Berlin). He is the conceiver, producer and TV host of WAHALA - a 26min digital TV show supporting and exposing new upcoming talent from Africa. As Africa explodes with talents, ideas and creativity that cross culture and geographical boundaries, Wahala is the reflection of an Africa in motion. With the aims of filling a large void existing between over-exposed commercial music and artists with global appeal not compromising their true cultural heritage, Eric Soul uses his fined-tuned ears, DJ skills, charisma and international network of key contacts to produce infectious online visual contents challenging negative perceptions and stereotypes on the most efficient media platform of all - Digital TV.
The Re-Evolution will Be Broadcast!

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WATCH WAHALA
WAHALA Best of 2009 from NO PRODZ (Filming & Editing) on Vimeo.

RWANDAN artist of the Diaspora are representing well this year. Acclaimed US Based Jazz-Singer SOMI is also nominated in the Best Acoustic Song category:

Scroll down to Acoustic Song to CAST YOUR VOTE FOR SOMI HERE
WATCH SOMI live

The global success and international recognition of artists such Nneka, K'naan, Fally Ipupa or BlitZ The Ambassador confirms that there is a global and growing consensus that cultural and creative industries are a significant contributor to economic growth and job creation. Today, the wisest music and marketing executives, producers, movie makers and businessmen are flocking to AFRICA to find new talents. Initiative such as MUSEKE MOAMA 2011 deserves strong community support, political will and investments in view of maximising the potential of the African creative industries to promote and project this great vision of progress, strenght and empowerment.