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NOMINATION BALLOT

42nd ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL REGGAE & WORLD MUSIC AWARDS (IRAWMA), SUNDAY, MARCH 30, 2025, SOUTH FLORIDA.

**For your nomination to be counted,  you must SUBSCRIBE FREE NOW TO IRAWMA YouTube TV channel, click here now www.youtube.com/IRAWMA
NOMINEES MUST FIRST BE SELECTED BY THE REGGAE & WORLD MUSIC INDUSTRY EXPERTS, BEFORE THE PUBLIC/FANS CAN VOTE TO SELECT THE WINNERS.

The 42nd Annual International Reggae and World Music Awards (IRAWMA) with the theme “Democracy Rise” in Salute to VP Kamala Harris, first Jamaican/Indian American nominated for President of the United States of America, returns to South Florida on Sunday, March 30th, 2025.

 

Entertainment media and experts in the entertainment industry (i.e., artists, producers, promoters, songwriters, record labels, media/bloggers, managers, agents, and engineers, etc.) can start submitting their nominations now through December 31st, 2024. The revealing of nominees and public/fans voting to select the winners will commence on Martin Luther King’s birthday, January `15th, 2025, and end midnight, March 10, 2025. The winners will be presented and announced on March 30th at the Awards ceremony in Coral Springs, Florida

 

CATEGORIES/CRITERIA: The Nominators’ decision should be based on materials/songs released no earlier than January 01, 2024, and no later than December 31, 2024. Please take into consideration the social relevance of materials, originality, sales, local/national/international performances, quality of performances and stage appearances, etc.

 

Enter your 1st and 2nd choices per category. Skip the categories that you are not familiar with or up to-date on. Submit @ www.irawma.com for your nomination to be counted. NOTE: Any duplicated nomination will be automatically detected along with the original, Nominations may be e-mailed to irawmainfo@gmail.com, or mailed to IRAWMA, c/o Martin’s International, 1325 South Wabash # 307, Chicago, IL 60605, USA. ONLY ONE ENTRY PER PERSON WILL BE ACCEPTED.

 

Deadline is December 31st, 2024!

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START YOUR NOMINATIONS NOW!

  1. Emperor of Reggae & World Music - Hon Bob Marley Award for Entertainer of the Year

  1. Peter Tosh Award for Recording Artist of the Year

  1. Jacob Miller Award for Best Male Vocalist

4. Best Female Vocalist

  1. Best Song

6. Best Album/CD

  1. Best Crossover Song

8. Best Gospel Entertainer - Sponsored by The Hon Shelvin L. M. Hall & Hon. L. Priscilla Hall - Hall of Justice Award

9. Best EP (Extended Play) Recording

  1. Best Male DJ/Rapper

11. Best Female DJ/Rapper

  1. Best New Entertainer

13. Best Calypso/Soca Entertainer

  1. Best Dancehall Stagecraft Entertainer

  1. Best Reggaeton Entertainer

  1. Best African Dancehall Entertainer

  1. Best Afrobeat Entertainer

  1. Best R & B/Hip Hop Collab. Reggae Song

  1. Best Reggae Rock Entertainer

20. Best Youth Entertainer (Under 19 yrs.)

21. Best Music Video

  1. Mutabaruka Award for - Best Poet/Spoken Word Entertainer

23. Most Cultural/Educational Entertainer

  1. Most Promising Entertainer

  1. Best Instrumentalist–sponsored

26. Best Sound System/DJ

27. Most Outstanding Dance Group

  1. Best Caribbean Entertainer

29. Jean B. P. DuSable Award for Best Haitian Entertainer

30. Record Producer of the Year

  1. Best Comedian

  1. Festival of the Year (multiple days)

  1. Marcus Mosiah Garvey Humanitarian Award

  1. BEST IRAWMA Song – 2025 (about IRAWMA Contributions to the music industry over the Years)

35. Best Song/Act Saluting Jamerican, US Presidential Nominee, VP Kamala Harris (Special)

36 - Best New African Entertainer

NOTE: It is important for all experts to state their area of entertainment. This will help our committee to determine why your nomination should be counted. The information requested below must be fully completed for nomination to be counted. Please like us on social media @irawmaawards. SUBSCRIBE FREE NOW TO YOUTUBE.COM/ IRAWMA.

irawma 2025 song contest!!

Added this year, is the special “Best Song/Act Saluting Jamaican-American, VP Kamala Harris, the Candidate for President of the United States of America.” Awards will be given in some 34 nominated categories, plus, Special Awards of honor, and the 3rd IRAWMA Best Song Contest that is now officially open to all entertainers to submit their songs to IRAWMAinfo@gmail.com. The video song must be two minutes and submitted in the form of MP4 format and say something about what IRAWMA has been doing for the music industry over the last 42 years.
 

The winner at the 40th IRAWMA was History Man from Jamaica, click here 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UrTPImjAA0U,

and the 41st winner was Ajaeze from Nigeria, click here, 

https://youtu.be/8UWa566ozKg?list=PL-xlXJBqNzordLkpHu0vv17olWsdNvUS5    

and enjoy the finalists.

www.youtube.com/IRAWMA

www.youtube.com/IRAWMA

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