Thursday Throwback: SAMMIE OKPOSO

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Its Thursday and it’s #THURSDAY_TROWBACK  with Greatgospelmusic!! We gonna be talking about Sammie Okposo today.

Sammie Okposo is an exceptional music producer, Psalmist, Entertainment Consultant and CEO of Zamar Entertainment.

Born in the late sixties, Gospel Artiste Sammie Okposo hails from Delta State, Nigeria. He started as a producer in 1995 when he joined the Nigerian Movie Industry as a Soundtrack Producer and later ventured into Music Producing. Today, he is credited for producing hits for some of the biggest names in the Nigerian Music Scene.

Sammie Okposo, is a United Nations Youth Ambassador for World Peace, who has featured prominently in sold out concerts all over Africa, Europe, America, Nigeria and most importantly, “The Experience” with Pastor Paul Adefarasin of House on The Rock Church. Sammie not only revolutionized, but also changed the face of Gospel Music in his home country of Nigeria, breaking all barriers to become the first gospel artiste to sell millions of copies of his work and the first gospel artiste to get his music played everywhere (including Nite Clubs) and this has earned him major respect as an acclaimed performer and entertainer.

Year	Award	Category	Result
1994	Fame Music Awards	Most Promising Male Artiste	Won
1997	The Movie Awards, Nigeria	Best Sound Track	Won
1998		Best Sound Track	Won
1999		Best Sound Track	Won
2000		Best Sound Track	Won
2001	Amen Awards, Nigeria	Best Gospel Artiste	Won
2002	Power of Music and Praise Awards	Best contemporary gospel Artiste	Won
		Gospel Artiste of the year	Won
2003	Kora Awards, South Africa	Best Male Gospel Artiste in Africa	Nominated
2005	Amen Awards	Best Male contemporary gospel Artiste in Nigeria	Won
	CNA Awards	Best remix Album	Won
	Teen choice Awards	Artist of the year	Won
2006	Afro Hollywood Awards UK	Best Gospel Artiste in English	Won
	Nigeria Movie Awards	Gospel Artist of the year	Won
		Best Sound and Music Score [Amazing Grace]	Won
	Kora Awards, South Africa	Best Male Gospel Artist in African	Won
2007	Nigeria Entertainment Awards, New York	Gospel artist of the year	Won
2008	Nigerian Music Video Awards	Best Gospel Video	Won
	Nigerian Music Awards	Best contemporary Gospel Artiste	Won
2010	God zone award	Excellence in Entertainment	Won
2011	Nigerian Music Video Awards	Best music video producer	Won
2012	Inside Out media awards	Positive impact awards	Won
	Pastor Bimbo Odukoya foundation awards	Best male Christian artiste	Won
	African Gospel Music Awards U.K	Trail blazer award	Won
	Real Soccerfest and CAN	Grass root ambassador of the year	Won
2013	Crystal Awards, Nigeria	Album of the year (The Statement)	Won
		Artiste of the year	Won
	Nigeria Entertainment Awards, New York City	Best Gospel Artist	Won
	Gospel Music Awards, Nigeria	Best Indigenous/Traditional Song Nigeria	Won
		Album of the year	Won
	Nigeria Gospel Music Awards, Nigeria	Artiste of the year	Won
2014	Africa Gospel Music Awards (UK)	Music Video of the Year (Who Tell You Say)	Won
	SABC Crown Gospel Music Awards (SA)	Best of Africa Gospel	Won
	NMVA Nigerian Music Video Awards	Best Gospel Music Video (Who Tell You Say)	Won
2015	African Entertainment Legend Awards	Gospel Artiste of the year	Won
	The Beatz Awards	Best Music Producer	Won
		Best Afro High life Artiste	Won
	Trumpet gospel music awards South Africa	Best worship song	Won
2016	Trumpet gospel music awards South Africa	Best worship song	Won
	Atlanta Georgia USA-Trail Blaizer Award	Best of African gospel awards	Won
2017	African Gospel Music and Media Awards,UK (AGMMA Awards)	Male Artiste of the year	Won