Artist Information Awards
By Chris Cooke | Revealed on Friday 2 December 2022
The MOBO Awards came about in London on Wednesday evening with not one however two albums being offered with the Album Of The 12 months prize. Any why the hell not? Awards for everybody, I say.
Each ‘Generally I Would possibly Be Introvert’ by Little Simz and ‘Alpha Place’ by Knucks have been thought of to be sufficiently magnificent to be offered with the 2022 MOBO for finest album. Elsewhere, Central Cee gained each the Greatest Male Act award and the prize for Video Of The 12 months, whereas Burna Boy was declared each Greatest Worldwide and Greatest African music-maker.
Within the classes centered on career-long achievements reasonably than music-making within the final twelve months, Nile Rodgers received the Lifetime Achievement Award, Craig David the Excellent Contribution Award, and SBTV founder Jamal Edwards was posthumously offered with a Paving The Manner Award.
Commenting on this 12 months’s occasion, MOBO founder Kanya King mentioned: “What an unimaginable evening it has been celebrating the twenty fifth MOBO Awards with our household of artists and expertise. It has been an evening of legends and the most popular stars, a fully glittering array of expertise”.
“Enormous congratulations to all of the winners tonight, with particular point out to the unimaginable trailblazer, Jamal Edwards MBE, the posthumous recipient of our Paving The Manner award, in addition to our Lifetime Achievement recipient Nile Rogers and Craig David for his Excellent Contribution. Enormous thanks additionally to our headline accomplice Lucozade and everybody else who has supported us on our journey”.
“Simply check out all of the myriad of genres lined by the present, it’s unprecedented”, she went on. “None of this could be potential with out the unimaginable variety of the black music scene and tradition, vital each to the group and the financial system”.
And right here’s the total record of winners…
Greatest Male Act: Central Cee
Greatest Feminine Act: PinkPantheress
Greatest Newcomer: Bru-C
Greatest Worldwide Act: Burna Boy
Greatest Producer: Inflo
Greatest R&B/Soul Act: Mahalia
Greatest Grime Act: D Double E
Greatest Hip Hop Act: D Block Europe
Greatest Drill Act: Ok-Lure
Greatest Various Music Act: Bob Vylan
Greatest Digital/Dance Act: Nia Archives
Greatest Gospel Act: Nonetheless Shadey
Greatest Jazz Act: Ezra Collective
Greatest African Music Act: Burna Boy
Greatest Caribbean Music Act: Skillibeng
Album Of The 12 months (Joint Winners):
Knucks – Alpha Place
Little Simz – Generally I Would possibly Be Introvert
Tune Of The 12 months: Dreya Mac, Felixthe1st & Finch Fetti – Personal Model (Baddie)
Video Of The 12 months: Central Cee – Doja
Greatest Efficiency: Kane Robinson (Kano) as Sully in ‘Prime Boy’
Greatest Media Character: Nella Rose
Lifetime Achievement Award: Nile Rodgers
Excellent Contribution Award: Craig David
Paving The Manner Award: Jamal Edwards
