Rapper M.anifest last night won an award at the 2017 International Midem Awards held in Cannes, France.
The second edition of the awards scheme took place at the Majestic Hotel, and saw four industry heavyweights, plus the winners of Midemlab and the Midem Artist Accelerator programme, honoured for their contribution to music.
M. Dot performed on the main stage of the 2017 Midem Artist Accelerator (MAA) event at the Majestic Hotel – Beach on Tuesday night.
MAA is an international career booster for emerging musical talent. The recently named cultural ambassador for the Ghana South Africa Business Chamber is the only African artiste at the event.
He will benefit from a 360-degree development programme which features a range of curated networking opportunities, as well as learning and coaching sessions with leaders of the international music industry.
The ambassadors for this year’s edition are Wyclef Jean, and Latin Latin superstar Daddy Yankee. The third edition of the global music industry event started on Tuesday, June 6 and will end on Friday, June 9, 2017.
The Midem Artist Accelerator is an exclusive programme for artists and their entourages. It is designed to support managers, agents, labels and publishers as they look to grow their artists’ profiles globally, as an opportunity to promote 11 International talents selected by an Artistic Committee.
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