Again, Pasuma And Saheed Osupa Go Head To Head For IMAN Award Glory

… As Hip Hop Star, Seriki Omo Owo Joins The Fray

Nominations for Islamic Music and Associated Nominees (IMAN) Awards 2017 have again thrown up an interesting contest between two Fuji music stars, Alhaji Wasiu Alabi Odetola popularly known as Pasuma and his main rival in Fuji music industry, Alhaji Saheed Okunola better known as Saheed Osupa, as they have again been both nominated in the category for Best Featured Non Islamic Artiste in Islamic Music. According to the organizers, Synergy Media, their category was the most fiercely contested of all the categories in IMAN Awards 2016. Even far more than other categories that involved core Islamic artistes directly.

“It was so interesting last year that the category which is not even directly an Islamic music category was the most keenly contested. The fans of Pasuma and Saheed Osupa really took the voting to each other’s door step as the two star artistes were neck to neck with the votes coming in till the last minute when Saheed Osupa edged out Pasuma to the coveted award with a slim margin,” the organizers disclosed.

Though, the two of them were not the only Fuji artistes nominated in the category, the organizers further revealed, but the two of them left others far behind with their vote volume. Meanwhile, unlike last year when Fuji artistes only made the category, there is an inclusion of a hip hop star, Seriki Omo Owo, for the 2017 edition amidst other Fuji artistes who were featured in Islamic music collaborations in the last one year. Seriki Omo Owo was featured by an Islamic hip hop crooner, Hyb Addis, in one of the tracks in his recently released Islamic hip hop album which is a first of its kind in Islamic music.

To see other nominees in the category, and in fact, other categories of IMAN Awards 2017 and how to vote, interested people can google IMAN Awards 2017 Nominations or simply search for #IMANAwards2017Nominations on Facebook.