Famend Jamaican comic and entertainer Oliver Samuels (left) with Dominic Christopher, the Jamaican-born president of the Brooklyn-based Caribbean American Restaurant Affiliation (CARA), on the launch of the inaugural Nationwide Caribbean American Restaurant Week in June 2021 at Suede Restaurant in East Flatbush, Brooklyn.
Photograph by Nelson A. King
Legendary Jamaican actor and comic Dr. Oliver Samuels, OD, will obtain the Golden Lifetime Award for 55 years in leisure and be topped “Caribbean King of Comedy” on the forty second Worldwide Reggae and World Music Awards (IRAWMA) on Sunday, March 30, on the Coral Springs Middle for the Arts, South Florida.
IRAWMA stated Samuels and Spoken Phrase nominee, actress/writer/poet Judith Falloon-Reid from Panama will host this 12 months’s awards ceremony.
Tickets and seats for Reggae and World Music’s Largest Night time of Honor are restricted and out there at www.irawma.com.
Followers worldwide who can not attend can register and watch dwell through Pay Per View by clicking https://maestro.tv/vclconcertslive/irawma-awards.
IRAWMA stated 160 nominees are vying for better of 2024 in 40 classes.
It stated 10 leisure and music trade veterans will obtain Particular Lifetime and Awards of Honor.
Dr. Ephraim Martin, BH{M}, president and producer of IRAWMA, who not too long ago celebrated his Golden fiftieth Anniversary in media, leisure, and activism, stated. “That is the forty second 12 months that Martin’s Worldwide’s two Awards occasions, the annual IRAWMA and the annual Chicago Music Awards, have been bestowing honors on our music legends.
“And between each annual Awards ceremonies, we now have, thus far, nominated greater than 18,000 nominees, and bestowed honors and awarded greater than 3,500 Awards winners globally,“ he stated. “Due to the workers, volunteers, music trade members, supporting sponsors, and others who’ve helped us make it via these years.
“We intend to uphold the integrity of IRAWMA by giving credit score solely the place credit score is due, with out compromise,“ Martin added. “We once more salute all this 12 months’s 160 nominees and the ten particular honorees for his or her infinite contributions to the leisure trade through the years.
“For the enhancement of reggae, world music, well being advocacy, and our social justice exercise, we’d like the help of the music trade, different companies, and people to develop into supporting companions or class sponsors,“ he continued. “Your tax-deductible donation could be used to reinforce the extent of manufacturing, maintain IRAWMA robust, and for the fortification of reggae and world music globally.“ President Martin concluded.
For extra info, e mail irawma@gmail.com or name 877/9-REGGAE.
