Fans Celebrate As Don Jazzy Is Named Gisthouse Platform’s ‘African Icon For January 2023

Mary Nnah

Fans of Music Executive and founder of Mavin Records, Micheal Collins Ajereh popular known as Don Jazzy, are in a celebration mood. This comes after Gisthouse, the first Afrocentric audio and video conversation platform named him as its “Black African Icon-Of-The Month” for January 2023.

Don Jazzy emerged as the winner after he was chosen out of dozens of other worthy African icons.

Speaking on the choice of Don Jazzy, Dr. Ope Banwo, Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Gist360 Incorporated, USA noted that Don Jazzy was selected for his lifetime body of work and contributions in elevating the music industry globally in the context of the Afrocentric experience.

Banwo who spoke at a press conference held recently in Nebraska, Omaha, USA, stated that Gisthouse has a vision to continuously celebrate the best of black Africa, and highlight the black African experience through global conversations, hence the honor bestowed on the iconic music entrepreneur, Don Jazzy. Furthermore, he noted that Don Jazzy was selected after a selection voting exercise by Gisthouse platform users and management, with consideration for the most outstanding black Africans.

He said; “We are most excited and privileged to announce Samuel Collins also known as Don Jazzy, a colossus of music in Africa as the Afrocentric Icon for January 2023.“Don Jazzy has not only excelled as a record producer, performer, and music executive, he pioneered a whole new genre of music and style of music performance with his iconic MoHits and Marven music labels.

“While Don Jazzy didn’t start international cross-over music in Africa he brought a delightful new swagger, panache, and an amazing financially rewarding dimension into African music with his unforgettable partnership with the inimitable D’banj in MoHits records, among others.

After Mohits, he took his pioneering talent to a higher level with Marvin Records and gave us instant superstars like the sultry Tiwa Savage, super crooner Wande Coal, Dr. Sid, and Korede Bello among others “Beyond establishing himself as a superstar music producer/performer, Don Jazzy has also mentored and helped a whole generation of Africans to turn their talents as musicians into a full-time occupation and impactful vocation ”Explaining the line of program set aside to celebrate Don Jazzy, Dr. Banwo said, “Gisthouse will be celebrating Don Jazzy as its January icon of the month in several ways during January.

“Gisthouse platform will be honouring Don Jazzy as our platform icon throughout January 2023 and beyond. Furthermore, he explained thus “In addition, we shall be declaring Friday 20th of January as the Icon Celebration Day with Don Jazzy on the Gisthouse Platform with different special rooms dedicated to celebrating him and his body of work and also hosting him to a special conversation on the GistHouse platform” He called on all lovers of Afrocentric achievements to help them congratulate and celebrate Don Jazzy this month, and beyond, for his immeasurable contribution to uplifting the Black African identity and talents globally through his body of work in music and entertainment.

Gisthouse is the first Afrocentric multimedia conversation platform that rewards users for having a great conversation. A next-level conversation platform, that has successfully merged the best of audio applications like Clubhouse, Twitter Spaces, Spotify green room, and Zoom apps into an integrated platform for people and businesses from all walks of life,  has been unveiled. With its industry-leading features and benefits, the Gisthouse platform provides a safe and rewarding environment for people of all colors to host different audio and video rooms on any topic, and provides advanced features for rewarding conversations on everything including Business, Politics, Religion; Personal Development, Self Development, Dating; Business Meetings; Networking, Friends and Family Meetings, etc.

The Gisthouse platform is available for free download on all AppStores and rewards all new and old users with gistcoin cryptocurrency that also acts as the platform means of exchange, gamification and interaction.