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Last night, the stars aligned in Brisbane’s Fortitude Valley for the 2021 Queensland Music Awards! Hosted by Aimon Clark and Patience Hodgson, the night served as celebration of the artistic and commercial success of the state’s best emerging and established artists and their teams over the last 12 months.
Taking home three awards in the Indigenous, Soul / Funk / RnB, and Remote categories for Twisting Words. Miiesha led the night with the most wins. More historic moments came when Jesswar’s Venom took home the Hip Hop / Rap crown, marking her as the first female artist to win this category since its introduction 4 years ago. Winning the Folk / Singer-Songwriter award for the second year in a row was Brisbane music and visual artist Jaguar Jonze with her conceptual release, MURDER.
Taking out the top honours were Ball Park Music who won Album Of The Year with their critically-acclaimed self-titled album, and Sycco who won both Song Of The Year and the Pop category award for her single, Dribble. Both artists celebrated their wins with show-stopping and memorable performances/
Gold Coast soul-folk-pop newcomer Beckah Amani took home the Emerging Artist Award and also the coveted 2021 Billy Thorpe Scholarship. Selected by a panel of judges and Lynn Thorpe herself, the Scholarship has supported emerging musicians for the past 13 years, and grants the winner$10,000 to record their next release along with career planning advice from Chugg Entertainment.
2021 QUEENSLAND MUSIC AWARDS WINNERS
ALBUM OF THE YEAR
Ball Park Music - Ball Park Music
SONG OF THE YEAR
Sycco - Dribble
BILLY THORPE SCHOLARSHIP
Beckah Amani
HIGHEST SELLING SINGLE
Amy Shark - Everybody Rise
HIGHEST SELLING ALBUM
Keith Urban - The Speed Of Now Part 1
EMERGING ARTIST OF THE YEAR
Beckah Amani
EXPORT ACHIEVEMENT
Sheppard
INNOVATION AWARD
Troubadour Wagons
GRANT MCLENNAN LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
Lynette Irwin
BLUES | ROOTS
Karl S Williams - God Is A Bomb
CHILDRENS
Nyssa Ray - Love Everybody
CONTEMPORARY CLASSICAL
Ray Lin - Moonlight Illusion
COUNTRY
Melody Moko - Like Hank Would
ELECTRONIC | DANCE
Young Franco - Juice feat. Pell
HEAVY
These Four Walls - White Lies
HIP HOP | RAP
Jesswar - Venom
INDIGENOUS
Miiesha - Twisting Words
JAZZ
Danny Widdicombe with Kristin Berardi & Trichotomy - Falling
POP
Sycco - Dribble
ROCK
Hope D - Second
SCHOOLS (GRADE 6 - 12)
Amber Farnan - Over & Out
FOLK | SINGER SONGWRITER
Jaguar Jonze - MURDER
SOUL | FUNK | R’N’B
Miiesha - Twisting Words
WORLD
MZAZA - The Ether
REGIONAL
CLOE TERARE - Intentions feat. JDG
REMOTE
Miiesha - Twisting Words
VIDEO
Dylan Dulcos | Rico Zhang - Lastlings, Out Of Touch
PEOPLE'S CHOICE AWARD - METRO VENUE OF THE YEAR
The Tivoli
PEOPLE'S CHOICE AWARD - REGIONAL VENUE OF THE YEAR
The Nightquarter
PEOPLE'S CHOICE AWARD - FESTIVAL OF THE YEAR
Woodford Folk Festival
QMUSIC AND QMAs SELECT: ‘ONES TO WATCH AND LISTEN’
Beckah Amani
Billie Rose
CLOE TERARE
Colie
MiCCY
Jelly Oshen
Order Sixty6
Peach Fur
Selve
Tbi$h
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