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New York's Governor David Paterson and Mayor Michael Bloomberg have made a call for New Yorker's to come out and support the IRAWMA's, and to recognize, Sunday, May 4th, as A Day Of Reggae. The awards will celebrate its 27th anniversary this year.
Trinidad's Machel Montano and Billy Ocean, alongside the likes of Jamaica's Shaggy, Ky-Mani Marley, Buju Banton and Beenie Man will be seen and heard at the world-famous Apollo Theater in New York City during the ceremony.
Montano is nominated for the Entertainer of the Year award, while Billy Ocean will be inducted into the IRAWMA Hall of Fame.
Grammy-winner Shaggy will walk the red carpet and grace the stage as his latest studio effort, Intoxication, is nominated for Best Album of the Year. He's also up for the Best Male DJ/Rapper award, and his song "Church Heathen" is nominated in the Best Song and Best Music Video categories.
Jamaican songbird Alaine is nominated for Best Female Vocalist, and U.S. Virgin Islands' native Pressure is nominated as the Most Promising Entertainer of the Year, bringing some true world flavor to this year's IRAWMA's.
Ziggy Marley and Jay-Z will each receive the Marcus Garvey Humanitarian Award for their charitable efforts this year.
According to IRAWMA's president Ephraim Martin, the list of performers and presenters also include Beenie Man, Ky-Mani Marley, Doug E. Fresh, Janet Hubert, Tarrus Riley, Freddie McGregor, Etana, Billy Ocean, Miss Jamaica 2007, Buju Banton, Macka Diamond, Lady G, Claudelle Clarke, Tony Rebel, Lady Ann, Dean Fraser, Winsome Benjamin, D'Angel, Queen Ifrika, Mutabaruka, Cecile, Junior Reid, Shelia Hylton, Dwight Pickney, and a soca mix featuring Hot 97FM disc jockey D. Life with soca songstress, Jadine.
