Congratulations to the Djooky Music Awards winners - Pablo from the Philippines DMP, and Mossa from the Solomon Islands!
You can find the distribution of the votes here.
See you in DMA Summer Edition! You can apply here.
Friday, June 11, 2021
Monday, June 7, 2021
Call For Application: Vocal Training, Your 2nd Shot at a Good Song
Do you have a song you think you could do better, given another chance? Get your 2nd shot at a good song by following these two simple steps.
STEP 1
Send a recorded track in mp3 format for evaluation to joett[at]TalentShowcaseAfrica.com
If you get selected, you get 10 Hours of a FREE Professional Vocal Training Program; that qualifies you for the next level.
Training will be conducted online via Skype, Zoom, Google Meet, and/or WhatsApp call.
HURRY! Limited space available.
STEP 2
You will re-record your song (or record a new song) after your training; submit your new song to Djooky Music Awards.
Once the new song is submitted, you will get FREE promotion on Nam Radio and Mdundo to help grow your fanbase and VOTES.
Simple, right?
Find out more about how the vocal training program can change your music journey. Watch Tanzanian artist Japhy Ross Before & After story on video.
Listen/download the brand new single Bado by Japhy Ross on Mdundo; or watch the Official Audio video on Talent Showcase Africa YouTube channel.
This UNIQUE opportunity is brought to you courtesy of Talent Showcase Africa in partnership with the Djooky Music Awards, Mdundo and Nam Radio.
With best wishes,
Djooky & Talent Showcase Africa Team
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Friday, April 30, 2021
Join Burna Boy's manager in DjookyTalks webinar with Brian Malouf
Djooky TALKS is a series of online events aimed at aspiring emerging artists and songwriters from all over the world. We bring the world's best industry experts to inspire and share their insider's tips and advice on how to build a successful career in music.
If you want to find the secret formula of success in the world of music, you'll need to hear the industry veterans discuss the success factors in the careers of emerging artists.
Bukola represents Burna Boy and Naomi Campbell, and so this makes it very interesting for an African audience.
Djooky TALKS webinar happens May 5th at 5pm Lagos, 7pm Nairobi, 6pm Cape Town.
Click here to Register TODAY!
This is truly VERY exciting for African talent, you all need to get plugged in. It is a rare opportunity and especially beneficial to emerging talent from Africa. Please share this post on your social media and we shall look forward to seeing there.
Need VOTES for the Weekly Music Charts CASH Prizes and the Spring 2021 Edition's $20,000 CASH?
Well, you're going to like this. In a recent article I show you the potential of messaging groups in building up your fan base and support network.
So have a read through my article Djooky Africa - Experience the Power of Messaging Groups in Pushing Your Music On WhatsApp & Telegram.
There’s also a specific blog post you ought to share with fans, and this reiterates our resolve to building a HUGE database of music lovers to support and vote for your music. You can help us spread the word to your fan base by sharing my article Love African Music? Discover NEW Music & Support AFRICAN Artists on Telegram.
So, until the next edition of our regular newsletter, stay safe, and we wish you all the best in the DMAs Spring Season.
Share this link with your fans so they can help you win: https://djookyawards.com/register/?as_music_lover
With best wishes,
Djooky Africa Team @ TalentShowcaseAfrica.com
Djooky Africa - Experience the Power of Messaging Groups in Pushing Your Music On WhatsApp & Telegram
What you are about to read is a Djooky Music Awards Africa newsletter that goes out to thousands of subscribers across the African continent, courtesy of Nam Radio's Talent Showcase Africa.
A lot is happening on the Djooky platform at the moment, what with the Spring Season about to kickoff on May 16, and African artists doing SO WELL on the Djooky Weekly Music Charts these past couple of months. We’re SO proud of you.
For those of you who’ve taken time out to join our Djooky Africa WhatsApp Group, I thank you for joining our community and hope you’re enjoying your membership.
Did you know Telegram takes 200K members per GROUP?
I’ve just published a special blog post that talks about our new messaging groups, so please pop over to our Talent Showcase Africa Tumblr page to read up on the Djooky Africa Messaging Groups on WhatsApp & Telegram.
And if you are an artist reading this article, there’s also a specific blog post you ought to share with fans, and this reiterates our resolve to building a HUGE database of music lovers to support and vote for your music.
So, here's what you can do: Help us spread the word to your fan base by sharing Love African Music? Discover NEW Music & Support AFRICAN Artists on Telegram.
Until the next edition of our regular newsletter, stay safe, and we wish you all the very best in the DMAs Spring Season.
Share this link with your fans so they can help you win:
https://djookyawards.com/register/?as_music_lover
With best wishes,
Djooky Africa Team @ TalentShowcaseAfrica.com
Saturday, March 27, 2021
Djooky Spring 2021 - Winner Has Option to take $20,000 in CASH
Gina Brooklyn, the first winner of the Djooky Music Awards, has made it to LA, where she is to record her new song at LA Capitol Studios with an all-star technical team led by Brian Malouf, the Multi-Platinum US Producer.
As part of her trip, Gina already took part in 2 co-writing sessions, has written 6 new songs, and has had 3 coaching sessions with the world's best experts.
Gina commented: “I am so incredibly grateful for the Djooky team & what they’ve done for me thus far. This trip has been so much fun and so productive, and I’m so excited for what’s to come!”
WOULD YOU RATHER TAKE $20,000 CASH?
In The Djooky Music Awards - Spring 2021 season, the winner’s cash prize will increase two-fold to $20,000. The Winner will be presented with two options: either to record a song with an all-star team at LA’s Capitol Studios OR receive $20,000 cash.
The dream trip to LA’s iconic recording studio also comes with a money-cannot-buy opportunity to attend coaching sessions with the best music experts globally.
One of the experts they get to work with is Brian Malouf, a multi-Platinum LA-based producer, and Djooky Co-Founder.
The second and third place prizes remain the same. Artists are to receive $5,000 and $2,000 to upgrade their music equipment. Alongside the main winners, every season there are also 12 Genre winners, who each receive a $1,000 prize to further their music careers.
Register your song TODAY at DjookyAwards.com
Source: this content was first published on the Djooky platform and republished here courtesy of Nam Radio's Talent Showcase Africa artist development platform.
Join our Djooky Africa WhatsApp Group (if it's full join Djooky Africa Telegram Group) to promote your Djooky listed music, and to get the support you need from within the group's membership base.
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Monday, March 8, 2021
The Djooky Music Awards Winter Edition 2021 has ended
Our winner is a band called Ulyatau from Kazakhstan, and you can view their interview right after their win, here.
Djooky wants to thank every artist who participated in the Winter Season of the DMA. It is time to Meet The Winners Of The DMA Winter Edition, where I'm proud to point out you'll find Nigerian Tam Ben's song Electric Vibe in 3rd position overall; and in our all new Afrobeat category Make You Mine by Laydon from Zimbabwe takes the number one spot.
These are truly exciting times for emerging talent right across the planet, and I have to say, Africa is so well represented and our artists are doing us proud.
I've created a Djook Africa WhatsApp Group wherein we lend support to African talent by working from within the community to boost and promote our own. And we've had some success. The third overall winner in the Winter Edition is Tam Ben from Nigeria, whilst the first winner in the Afrobeat category is Laydon from Zimbabwe. Both of these artists are in my WhatsApp group.
What I'm trying to do now is to push the Djooky weekly charts to encourage artists to go for the weekly cash prizes, thereby organically building this incredible movement exponentially. We've had tremendous success in recent weeks with Tam Ben, who's won the top chart position multiple times. You'll find out more about this weekly chart here.
So we suggest you submit your song entry as soon as possible!
If you've enjoyed this article, brought to you courtesy of Talent Showcase Africa's Nam Radio in partnership with the Djooky Music Awards, please share it on your social media.
Wishing you all the success in the world,
JOETT - Voice Coach & Author
Sunday, January 31, 2021
Google Meet Singing Workshops with JOETT, and it's FREE!
The purpose of this blog post is to invite you to join me on Google Meet for a FREE Q&A style singing workshop where I don't talk you to sleep, instead, I'll listen to you tell me about your specific singing challenges and then I'll try to sort out your problems on the call...or at the very least, point you in the right direction.
Do you have external speakers?
If I'm going to run you through a vocal exercise on Google Meet video call to help resolve your vocal issues, it is imperative that your device is connected to external speakers. And as a last resort, if you're using a headset, then it's got to be one headset plugged into/or over your ear, and one headset out. In the case of the headset option, in that particular order, it is so you can hear yourself in good balance.
Speech Level Singing Technique Explained
So let's begin...
When it comes to singing you have to be able to deliver a song in a manner that best suits the mood and style of that song, and the way you feel about that song. Your success or failure in doing this depends a great deal on your vocal technique, the way you use your voice. The better the technique, the greater the command you have over your voice. And the greater the variety of material you can sing.
In my Google Meet singing workshops I invite you to tell me what your vocal challenges are, and I will do my very best to help you resolve your problems on the call. This is a very simple and straightforward community outreach initiative, and what's more, it's FREE!
No-matter if you sing pop, musical comedy or opera, there is an effective technique that helps you sing more easily and comfortably, many hours at a time, day after day. It’s called speech-level singing technique, or simply, speech level singing.
Speech level singing means no matter how high or low; or how loudly or softly you sing, you never do anything that prevents you from singing with the same, comfortable easily produced voice when you speak.
Even though you use a greater pitch and dynamic range when you sing, nothing should feel any different in your mouth or throat. There should be no tension in your tongue, your jaw, soft pallet or your neck.
If you’ve taken voice lessons before, or have sung in a choir, your voice teacher or choir director has probably instructed you at one time or another to give your tone more support. Sing from your diaphragm. Let your tone resonate. Place your tone forward. Project your voice…and so on.
However, such instruction can be confusing and even dangerous. I’ve seen it destroy many fine voices. Singing technique associated with this kind of instruction can only cause your voice to jam up, and your body to become stiff and rigid.
These kind of instructions have a tendency to talk in result. To explain to you what singing should be, rather than how to allow it to happen. With speech-level technique, you need only concern yourself with one thing when you sing: speech.
Your tone production must remain consistent—or as we say, connected from the bottom of your range—that is your chest voice, all the way into the extended upper range of your head voice.
AND you must coordinate that connection from a vocal posture that is exactly the same as when you're speaking comfortably… that is, your speech level.
With speech-level singing your voice is automatically supported, your diaphragm and all your breathing muscles work the way they should to supply your vocal chords with just the right amount of air.
You don’t need to push, tighten or manipulate anything to have a strong, clear and dynamically flexible voice. With speech-level singing, your voice is automatically balanced with just the right amount of top, middle and bottom harmonic qualities.
You don’t sound muddy, dark, throaty on low tones; or slatey, pinched or strident on high notes.
With speech-level singing your voice only gets better as you get older, there won’t be any loss of range, quality or power; BUT to develop speech-level singing technique you need the training. Or if you’re like most singers, retrain your voice, with the help of special exercises.
JOIN Google Meet Singing Workshops FREE
You can also download Joett Vocal Drills Vol. 1-7, it's FREE! Click Here.
Want to Sing Like a Pro?
To join the JOETT Q&A Style Vocals Quick Fix Singing Workshop on Google Meet, once you've been given an appointment, click this link here!
Or open Google Meet and enter this code: xwz-keay-ekt
To receive updates on when these workshops run, simply send me a quick message on WhatsApp or via social media. Contact information is on my calling card (see below).
Want the Complete Vocals Overhaul via Skype?
I know some of you would rather pay for private lessons, and I'd be more than happy to offer you my private vocal coaching services. You'll find more information on my Nam Radio page here.
You Are the Instrument, Learn to Sing Like a Pro!
I shall look forward to seeing you online soon.
JOETT - Voice Coach & Author
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