Zima announces date, categories, and opens up submission

The Zimbabwe Music Awards (Zima) have introduced the 2023 date, classes to be contested, as submission was opened.

The date is 3 June and the occasion will probably be held at seemingly revived 7 Arts Theatre, in Avondale, Harare.

25 classes will see gongs handed out. Zima will nonetheless be taking submissions for twenty-four of these with one being a particular award, The Lifetime Achievement Award which doesn’t require any submissions.

1. Track of the 12 months
2. Greatest Feminine Artist of the 12 months
3. Greatest Male Artist of the 12 months
4. Greatest Group/Duo of the 12 months
5. Greatest Newcomer of the 12 months
6. Greatest Album of the 12 months
7. Greatest Zimdancehall
8. Greatest Sungura
9. Greatest Afropop / Afrofusion
10. Greatest Hip Hop
11. Greatest Collaboration
12. Greatest Modern Gospel
13. Greatest Conventional Gospel
14. Greatest RnB & Soul
15. Greatest Jazz
16. Greatest Dance (Home, Amapiano, Kwaito, EDM)
17. Greatest Tshibilika
18. Greatest Conventional (Chinyakare, Chimurenga)
19. Greatest Conventional (People, Ezomdabu, Imbube)
20. Greatest Various
21. Producer of the yr
22. Greatest Music Video
23. Greatest Videographer
24. Greatest Diaspora Artist
25. Lifetime Achievement

Nominations opened 13 March and can shut on 14 April. Adjudication begins on 17 April, with nominees to be introduced on 2 Could.

The ZIMA course of, eligibility of entry, rule guide, nomination, adjudication, and all data pertaining to the awards might be discovered on their web site www.zimmusicawards.co.zw

You possibly can submit through:

• The above-mentioned web site
• ZIMA Head Workplace, tenth flooring, Causeway Constructing, Nook Simon Muzenda Road and Central Avenue, Harare
• Whatsapp – +263788 719 419

PPC Zimbabwe returns as the principle sponsor and the occasion runs underneath the theme, Re-Imagining The Trade.