First timers dominate 2015 Pacific Music Award finalists 14 Apr 2015
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Monday 13 April,
2015
First timers dominate the 2015 Vodafone Pacific Music Award finalists
The finalists for the 2015 Vodafone Pacific Music Awards have been announced and it is new talent that is dominating the line-up
Team Dynamite from Auckland is a finalist in an impressive four categories.
Band members Lucky Lance, Tony Tz and Haz Beats’ debut hip hop album ‘Shepards Delight’ has secured Team Dynamite finalist spots for Nui FM Best Pacific Urban Artist and Recorded Music NZ Best Pacific Music Album. The single from the same album ‘Coconut Lime’ is up for APRA Best Pacific Song and NZ On Air Best Pacific Music Video.
Team Dynamite is going head to head with Pacific music industry veteran Cydel which is also a finalist for four awards.
Cydel members Saipele Nili and David Letoa, both from South Auckland, were finalists in 2006 and won the Nui FM Best Pacific Urban Artist Award in 2008. The band is up for the Nui FM Best Pacific Urban Artist Award category again this year, along with Radio 531pi Best Pacific Group, APRA Best Pacific Song and Recorded Music NZ Best Pacific Music Album.
Auckland’s Fiafia Band joins Team Dynamite and Cydel in the battle for Recorded Music NZ Best Pacific Music Album for the 2014 release, ‘Siva Siva Maia’.
The winner of the Best Pacific album category is presented with a Tui and recognised at the Vodafone New Zealand Music Awards later this year.
2015 sees Auckland’s K.One and Wellington’s TJ Taotua debut in the finals line-up with both up for NZ Music Commission Best Pacific Male Artist. Joining them is last year’s NZ On Air Best Pacific Video winner, Wellington’s King Kapisi. TJ Taotua, also nominated for Best Pacific Gospel artist.
In the Best Pacific Female Artist category, Samoa based artist Lole Usoalii-Hickey is up against Auckland’s Julie Ta’ale aka Mz J and five-time Pacific Music Awards finalist, Erakah.
Ten of the 21 finalists are newcomers to the awards.
Pacific Music Awards Trust spokesperson Rev. Mua Strickson-Pua says “The PMAs has a proud tradition of championing the Tupulaga - the new generation of artists coming through - which is evident in this year’s line-up with close to half being newcomers to the awards.
“Pacific music’s roots in NZ date back nearly 100 years so it’s fantastic to see this rich cultural genre continuing to grow with an array of new talent alongside our more established musicians. Pacific music has played a hugely influential role in the New Zealand Music scene and industry so we are humbled and excited to honour that tradition and the latest Pacific musical arrivals.”
The awards are in their eleventh year and the winners are to be announced at an event celebrating and honouring music and artists at the Vodafone Events Centre on Saturday 13 June.
Tickets to the ceremony are
available through TicketDirect. www.ticketdirect.co.nz
0800 224 224.
(Please note a booking fee may apply)
The full
list of finalists for the Pacific Music Awards
are:
BEST PACIFIC FEMALE
ARTIST
Lole Usoalii-Hickey
“Get Over”
Mz J
“Sparkle”
Erakah ‘Organised
Chaos’ NZ MUSIC COMMISSION BEST PACIFIC
MALE
ARTIST
K.One “I Wanna Tell
You”
King Kapisi ”Welcome
Back”
TJ Taotua
‘Magnified’
NIU FM BEST PACIFIC URBAN
ARTIST
Cydel ‘Memoirs of a
Midnight Cowboy’
Sid Diamond
‘Speakers Blown’
Team Dynamite
‘Shepards Delight’ RADIO 531PI BEST PACIFIC
GROUP
Cydel ‘Memoirs of a
Midnight Cowboy’
Three Houses Down
‘On My Heart’
Tomorrow People
‘Again & Again’
NZ ON AIR BEST
PACIFIC MUSIC VIDEO
Coco Solid
‘Heaven's Gate’ (Director Coco Solid)
Team
Dynamite ‘Coconut Lime’ (Director Eddy
Fifield)
Smashproof ‘Survivors’
(Director Chris Graham) APRA BEST PACIFIC
SONG
Andrew Faleatua ‘Samoa
Forever’
Cydel ‘I Love
You’
Smashproof
‘Survivors’
Team Dynamite
‘Coconut Lime’
TAGATA PASIFIKA BEST
PACIFIC LANGUAGE
Aumua Toafa
Ai'i Te'o ‘It’s my turn - O lo'u
taimi’
Fiafia Band ‘Siva Siva
Maia’
Word of Life South Auckland
Choir ‘Toele I La'u auaunaga’ BEST
PACIFIC GOSPEL ARTIST
Lifestyle (of
Worship) ‘Your Will Be Done’
TJ
Taotua ‘Magnified’
Word of Life
South Auckland Choir ‘Toele I La'u
auaunaga’
FLAVA BEST INTERNATIONAL PACIFIC
ARTIST
Common Kings ‘Before
You Go’
Mahi ‘Kissing
You’
Maryanne Ito ‘Waking Up’
RECORDED MUSIC NZ BEST PACIFIC MUSIC
ALBUM
Cydel ‘Memoirs of a
Midnight Cowboy’
Team Dynamite
‘Shepards Delight’
Fiafia Band
‘Siva Siva Maia’
2015
Finalists:
• Andrew Faleatua
‘Samoa Forever’
• Aumua Toafa
Ai'i Te'o ‘Its my turn - O lo'u
taimi’
• Coco Solid ‘Heaven’s
Gate’
• Common Kings ‘Before You
Go’
• Cydel ‘Memoirs of a Midnight
Cowboy’/’I Love You’
• Erakah
‘Organised Chaos’
• Fiafia Band
‘Siva Siva Maia’
• K.One ‘I
Wanna Tell You’
• King Kapisi
‘Welcome Back’
• Lifestyle (of Worship)
‘Your Will Be Done’
• Lole
Usoalii-Hickey ‘Get
Over’
• Mahi ‘Kissing
You’
• Maryanne Ito ‘Waking Up’
• Mz J
‘Sparkle’
• Sid Diamond
‘Speakers Blown’
• Smashproof
‘Survivors’
• Team
Dynamite ‘Shepards Delight’/’Coconut
Lime’
• Three Houses Down ‘On My
Heart’
• TJ Taotua
‘Magnified’
• Tomorrow People
‘Again & Again’
• Word of Life
South Auckland Choir ‘Toele I La'u
auaunaga’
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