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WOMEX Awards
Quality, Creativity, Impact
WOMEX 10 Award for Artists
WOMEX 10 Award for Professional Excellence
About the WOMEX Award
WOMEX Awards 99 - 09
Since its introduction in 1999, the WOMEX Award has been honouring high points of world music on the international level. Musical excellence, social importance, commercial success, political impact, lifetime achievement – any or all of these might make one a worthy recipient.
Since 2008 WOMEX presents three Awards every year:
The Award Ceremony (delegates only!) takes place on Sunday noon, 31 October, marking the end of full five days of music, business and networking at WOMEX.
WOMEX 10 Award for Artists
 WOMEX is proud to announce the winner of the WOMEX 10 Award for Artists: Danyèl Waro, the uncompromising maloya hero from Reunion island.
He will perform on Sunday morning, 31 October 2010, during the Awards Ceremony accompanied by a WOMEX Networking Breakfast, both open to WOMEX delegates only. The laudation will be offered by Jaana-Maria Jukkara, Director of the Global Music Centre in Finland celebrating its 30th anniversary this year.
Philippe Conrath, whose Cobalt label has Read on...
WOMEX 10 Award for Professional Excellence
 WOMEX is proud to announce the winner of the WOMEX 10 Award for Professional Excellence: Ian Anderson (UK), founder and editor-in-chief of the magazine fRoots, on behalf of the independent press.
He will receive his Award on Sunday morning, 31 October 2010, at the Awards Ceremony accompanied by a WOMEX Networking Breakfast, both open to WOMEX delegates only. The laudation will be offered by the leading journalist Robin Denselow (UK), known for his work with the BBC and The Guardian among others.
Since 1999 we have given Read on...
 Being the mother of all awards, and supporting musical creativity and fertility, it is only fitting that the mother of all and everything serves as the symbol for our tributes in the name of the WOMEX Award. Especially when it is represented by a statue that was created at a time when there was no such thing as Asia or Europe, black or white, first world or third. The Award figurine is an ancient mother goddess statue dating back about 6000 years to the Neolithic age. It was found in Haçilar in modern-day Turkey and bears witness to the existence of a matriarchal society. Such a female goddess appears in many ancient mythologies as an initial primal figure, representing fertility and procreation either as the earth itself or as a mother giving birth to the world and all the creatures in it.
The WOMEX Award and the figure that represents it stand for life itself. Life is what music is all about … or should that be: music is what life is all about?
 WOMEX Awards 99 - 09
So far we - you - have honoured Juan de Marcos and Nick Gold (1999), Mahotella Queens (2000), Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan (2001) and Jivan Gasparyan (2002). In 2003 we took two steps further: we honoured Freemuse - The World Forum on Music and Censorshipan- an institution for the first time rather than an individual. This was followed by the sixth WOMEX Award in 2004, which was dedicated to Marc Hollander and Crammed Discs for 25 years of pioneering label work in the field of world music. The 2005 Award was given to the energetic Taarab singer Bi Kidude from Zanzibar, who was then nearing a hundred years old. In 2006 the Award went to Colombia's incomparable Totó La Momposina , in recognition of her ground-breaking work for Afro-Caribbean music and dance. The Award 07 paid homage to Andy Palacio (1960-2008) and Ivan Duran, both of Belize.
In 2008 we refined the Award concept again and gave out two: one to Muszikás from Hungary and another one to the Folk Music Department of the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki, Finland. The group Staff Benda Bilili from DR Congo and French producer, festival organiser, label owner... Christian Mousset were each given a WOMEX 09 Award.
The Top Label Award launched in 2006 has been presented to the following labels: World Circuit (2006), Stern's (2007), Cumbancha (2008) and Crammed (2009).
See our archive for more information on all WOMEX Award winners.
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