Musicians, Trigmatic, Cecilia Marfo and Kwabena Kwabena lead the pack with more nominations for this year’s MTN Ghana Music Awards released Friday at the Poolside of the Golden Tulip. Young musician Trigmatic had seven nominations including Hip Hop Song of the Year, Best Rapper of Year, Record of the Year and Song Writer of the Year. Cecilia Marfo also had seven nominations; Artiste of the Year category, Gospel Song of the Year, Most Popular Song of the Year and Best Female Vocal Performance of the Year. Kwabena Kwabena on the other hand has six nominations; Best Collaboration of the Year and Songwriter(s) of the Year with D-Black in the song Somebody and Highlife Song of the Year with Cash Unit in the song Yaa Amponsah. Other artistes who had nominations include Eazzy, Castro, No Tribe, D-Black and VIP who had 5 nominations each and Samini who had 4. This year’s awards ceremony will be held at the Dome of the Accra International Conference Centre on Saturday April 9 but preceding that will be the Ghana Music Awards Dialogue/Workshop and the Ghana Music Awards Nominees Party. Each winner at the awards will get GH¢1, 000 with the Artiste of the Year winner walking away with a cash prize of GH¢5, 000 Ghana Cedis, an increase from last year’s GH¢3,000. Other special awards to be picked up include Best Music for Development worth GH¢3,000 and the newly introduced special category, Life Time Achievement Award where the winner will get a plague and a cash prize of GH¢ 2,000.