The L.A. Music Awards have been around longer than any other independent awards show in the world. While many other awards show events have a policy of nominating all who pay the submission fee, the L.A. Music Awards nominates only the best of it's musical submissions, which explains its longevity, history, heritage and esteem.
If you are nominated in the Los Angeles Music Awards, there are thousands of dollars worth of benefits and opportunities through the promotional efforts...
The L.A. Music Awards have been around longer than any other independent awards show in the world. While many other awards show events have a policy of nominating all who pay the submission fee, the L.A. Music Awards nominates only the best of it's musical submissions, which explains its longevity, history, heritage and esteem.
If you are nominated in the Los Angeles Music Awards, there are thousands of dollars worth of benefits and opportunities through the promotional efforts made on your behalf. The L.A. Music Awards are a media-driven publicity and marketing machine.
Your submission to The Los Angeles Music Awards will offer the chance for your music to be heard by Hollywood's TV/film placement industry as well as to be one of 100 nominees in 20 categories (5 nominees per category). There are reserved slots in every category for Sonicbids members.
Each submission will be carefully evaluated. There will be four separate qualifying rounds, with monthly, public placement of new nominee names on the LA Music Awards website.
Here are the categories:
Male Singer / Songwriter of the Year
Female Singer / Songwriter of the Year
Rock Single of the Year
Pop Single of the Year
Adult Contemporary Single of the Year
Triple A Single of the Year
Soul R&B Single of the Year
Dance Single of the Year
Country Single of the Year
Hip Hop Single of the Year
Music Video of the Year
Male Vocal Performance of the Year
Female Vocal Performance of the Year
Rock Record of the Year (Producer)
Rock Album of the Year (Artist)
Country Vocalist of the Year: Male or Female
Pop Vocalist of the Year: Male or Female
Band My Space Website of the Year
Musical Group of the Year
Instrumental Artist of the Year
There will also be a separate "Producers Choice" category for nominees who submit exemplary work for consideration of nomination. The Producers Choice sub categories are:
Guitarist of the Year
Bassist
Drummer
Keyboardist
Recording Engineer
Live Performance
CD Package design
Jazz Artist
Hip-Hop Artist
Musical Group
The artists who are chosen as nominees in the independent categories will get to network not only with music industry achievers, but with top-level people from the motion picture industry as well. This awards show is open to artists from around the world.
The LA Music awards is sponsored by Rainbo Records, who is offering selected artists 100 CDs for free. See LA Music Awards' MySpace page for more details.
Please note: The 19th Annual LA Music Awards Showcase Series will be held monthly at Life in Los Angeles. Sonicbids artists are eligible to perform at these events in 2009.
he 2009 LA Music Awards and Showcase Series will continue with the traditions established when it was founded in 1991. That means that the interests of artists and their creative work come first and that community service to the grassroots creative community shall continue to be the mantra of this organization.