Award winning Reggae/Dancehall music artist Spragga Benz has been announced as official host of this years 1st annual Caribbean Urban Music Awards taking place in Jamaica on the 26th of April 2008 on the prestigious Reggae Beach in Ochos Rios, Jamaica.
The Caribbean Urban Music Awards is brought to you by the producers of the Urban Music Awards which is one of the biggest international awards ceremonies held in the USA, UK, France, and Germany and broadcast worldwide to an audience of 14.5 million viewers annually.
The UMA’s celebrated its 5th anniversary in 2007 by launching the US version of the awards ceremony at the Hammerstein Ballroom in New York on the 7th of July 2007. The Urban Music Awards was born out of the need to build a worldwide and independent awards ceremony to recognise the achievement of 100% urban based artists, producers, club nights, dj’s , radio stations, record labels and artist that are a product of the current Urban music scene. With over 3 million urban music fans nominating and voting on the official UMA website internationally per year and urban music being the official biggest selling music genre in the world. Invincible Media Group’s “Urban Music Awards” has become synonymous with great music and leading a fashion that is set to become even bigger in 2008 and beyond.
From its inception all nominations and voting have been left for YOU, the public to decide! The public submit their nominees online for all 10 categories with voting to be announced in February 2008 at a press conference in Kingston, Jamaica.
For 5 years now, the prestigious awards ceremony has been covered by: CNN, Vibe Magazine, BET, MTV, The BBC World Service, Hot 97, VH1, BBC Radio 1, BBC Entertainment Online, Invincible TV, Evening Standard, The Metro Newspaper, The Independent, The Guardian, Invincible, Channel 4, CD: UK, London Tonight, Choice fm, Daily Star, New York Daily, New Nation, The Voice, and many more.
Many Caribbean artists have added support to the Caribbean Music Awards as the first awards ceremony to transcend all Caribbean music from Reggae right through to Calypso.
Morgan Heritage “We welcome the Urban Music Awards efforts in launching the Caribbean Music Awards here in Jamaica and we thank all our fans around the world for supporting and voting for us to be nominated”
Sizzla “Feel glad to be nominated for this very prestigious award”
Spragga Benz “We are happy that the Urban Music Awards have decided to launch in the Caribbean. It’s something that Jamaica and the whole of the Caribbean should embrace wholeheartedly and I am excited to host this year’s awards show’
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Jordan Kensington, C.E.O of Invincible Media Group & Urban Music Awards said: “The growth of the Urban Music Awards since it was launched by Invincible Media Group 7 years ago has been incredible. As one of the biggest international Music Awards ceremonies, we are proud to launch the Caribbean Music Awards for the first time as an annual event in Jamaica that will showcase all Caribbean music genres through its broadcast to an international platform like never before. The Caribbean Music Awards will become the only credible people’s choice award ceremony to be broadcast to 6 countries and to open the doors for bigger opportunities for the Caribbean Music Industry.
In a move to unite all the Islands of the Caribbean via the Caribbean Urban Music Awards. The Urban Music Awards team have today announced that it has entered into a licensing agreement to create a brand new Television show that is set to take the music industry by storm. Launching in the Caribbean in February, North America in May and the United Kingdom in August 2008. The Caribbean Next Urban Superstar will be similar to Britain’s Next Urban Superstar and America’s Next Urban Superstar. It will be a unique Television show of its kind to be directly associated with a major awards ceremony. Next Urban Superstar search will become the biggest annual urban televised singing competition directly associated with the Urban Music Awards.
The Caribbean's Next Urban Superstar will see us auditioning thousands of acts from February 2008 giving a chance for the public to vote for the winners by SMS text and via our official website (www.urbanmusicawards.net).
Jahson Nembhard, formerly from the award winning group The Drifters and VP for the competition said “Aspiring acts will be auditioned from Jamaica, Anguilla, Martinique, Antigua & Barbuda, Aruba, Barbados, Bermuda, St. Lucia, Curaçao,Dominica, , French Guiana, Grenada, Guadeloupe, Guyana, Haiti, St Kitts & Nevis, St. Vincent & the Grenadines, Trinidad & Tobago. Winners from Caribbean’s Next Urban Superstar will win a recording & management contract and will win the chance to perform at the UMA's in Jamaica, New York, and London all expenses paid)”.
Jordan Kensington, C.E.O of Invincible Media Group & the Urban Music Awards added. “Invincible is a very iconic and pioneering brand and all our activities and events to date have been hugely successful. There have been several Television shows dedicated at discovering the next big thing but never has there been a show solely dedicated to the discovery of the future urban stars and as the biggest Urban Music Awards ceremony in the world. We feel launching, the Next Urban Superstar search in the US, UK, and especially the Caribbean will seek to find, develop, and give a once in a lifetime opportunity to discover the next Sean Paul, Bob Marley, Beenie Man, Rhianna, Collie Buddz, Beyonce, Jay-Z, and much more. We are also proud to bring the Urban Music Awards to the Caribbean as the Caribbean was in need of an awards ceremony that reflects, promotes and provide worldwide opportunities for the different forms of Caribbean artists, music and culture”
A host of Caribbean music artist have been lined up to perform at the awards show including ; Voicemail, Sizzla , Erupt performing his international hit ‘Click My Finger’, Cherine Anderson, Cecille, Malica, Spragga Benz. Also, performing from the US, we have Bobby Valentino and many more acts are to be added to the bill.
For interview opps/ Tickets, Flights & Hotels/Sponsorship/ Other Enquiries:
Contact:
Linda Sykes
E-mail: Linda.sykes@urbanmusicawards.net
On the Next Urban Superstar:
E-mail: info@nexturbansuperstar.com
For UK contact: 00 44 (0) 207-078-7333
For USA contact: 00 1 213- 291-8682
About Invincible:
Invincible Media Group is the international parent group of companies behind Invincible Magazine, Invincible USA newspaper (new), Invincible Radio, Invincible TV, and Invincible films, Invincible Jeans, Invincible Events and Invincible Mobile. Invincible was launched by serial entrepreneur, Jordan Kensington on the 1st July 1999 in London, as a style, ideas and impact conscious brand with the aim of serving our vibrant, multi-cultural society. Since its creation, with offices in the United Kingdom, USA, Germany, France and the Caribbean, Invincible has launched the careers of musicians, artists, photographers, designers, writers, models and actors around the world, while staking out an unchallenged position for itself at the cutting-edge of international urban cool and inspiration. Fuelled by a dedication to succeed, Invincible promotes a message of unity to empower diversity and creativity. Invincible events is also responsible for the Invincible Fashion Awards (Barbados), Urban Music Awards (held annually both in the UK, France, Caribbean, & U.S.A), British Music Week and the National Entrepreneurs Conference (NYC)/
