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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 are 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 recognize 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 the public "YOU" to decide! The public submit their nominees online for all 10 categories.
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."
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, Bobby Valentino and many more acts are to be added...
