Ayrastarr won the Best Female Artiste of 2023 Headies Awards ahead of the likes of Tiwa Savage and Tems
By Kehinde Okeowo
Fast-rising Nigerian singer, Oyinkansola Sarah Aderibigbe better known as Ayrastarr has chastised the organisers of the recently concluded Nigerian music award, ‘Headies’ for disrespecting female artistes.
TheNiche had earlier reported that Afrobeats star, Divine Ikubor, aka Rema, won the Best Male Artiste of the Year at the 16th Headies Awards which was held at the Cobb Energy Performing Arts Centre in Atlanta, United States, on Sunday.
The ceremony, tagged “Celebrating African Renaissance,” was hosted by popular Nollywood actress, Osas Ighodaro and American media personality, Terrence J.
Outside Rema, who won 3 awards on the night, other artistes across the African continent were presented awards in different categories.
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However, the organisers failed to present awards in categories such as Best Female Artiste, Best Recording of The Year, Songwriter of The Year, Best RnB Single, Best Vocal Performance (Female), Headies Viewers’ Choice, Best East African Artiste of the Year and 8 other categories.
This seemed not to have gone down well with Ayrastarr who had beaten the likes of Tiwa Savage, Simi and Tems, to emerge as the winner of the Best Female Artiste category.
She later took to her social media page after Osas Ighodaro abruptly announced the end of the show to slam Headies organisers for not presenting the category for the best female act.
Airing her opinion via her verified X account (formerly Twitter) Ayrastarr wrote: “I will never be grateful for winning a category that wasn’t even deemed fit to be announced on stage! Best female artist na beans? We work hard, every single one of us! I’ve seen Tiwa record 4 hit songs in the same night, Tems breaths and lives for music, we didn’t deserve such nonchalance! Nigeria, you didn’t raise me to settle for less.”(sic)
