The BMA nomination meeting happened last night, see the full list of nominees here first on Boyce Voice, we would like to congratulate all the winners, don’t see my name here though, this is the second year I have been omitted, wait till I see Ronnie then… Best wishes to everyone

Soca Up-Tempo Single

Edwin Yearwood- In De Middle A De Road

Mikey- Rhythm Section

Timmy- Tim De Tool Man

Soca Mid-Tempo Single (Male)

Blood- Back It Up

Mikey- I In Dat

RPB- Something’s Happening

Soca Mid- Tempo Single (Female)

Alison Hinds- Chocolate and Vanilla

Natahlee- What We Do

TC- Hot Sun and Rhythm

Best Social Commentary

John King- My Caribbean

RPB- Home Drums

Sheldon Hope- Last Days

Best Collaboration

Alison Hinds & Richie Spice- King and Queen

Ayana John & Elephant Man- Pose

Kirk Brown, Justin King & Tejay- Shawty Get Low

Song of the Year

Edwin Yearwood- In De Middle A De Road

RPB- Something’s Happening

Shontelle- Battle Cry

Album of the Year (Artist / Group)

Ayana John- Ayana John

Krosfyah- Kings of the Groove

Shontelle- Shontelligence

Album of the Year (Compilation)

Monsta Piece- AWOL

Tone Deaf Studios- Chaos

Various- Soca Tite Choonz

Producer of the Year

Anderson “Blood” Armstrong

KB Sharp

Peter Coppin

Songwriter of the Year

Edwin Yearwood

Mr. Dale

RPB

Backing Vocalist of the Year

Indra Rudder

Lisa Howell

Ria Borman

Instrumentalist of the Year

Darien Bailey

James Lovell

John Roett

Best Music Video (Male)

Jaicko- Oh Yeah

Kirk Brown feat. Justin King & Tejay- Shawty Get Low

Philip 7- Looking For

Best Music Video (Female)

Livvi Franc- Now I’m That Chick

Shontelle- Battle Cry

Tarah- Push Back / Love De Carnival

Best New Artist

Cherish Breedy

Ria Borman

Sir Ruel

Reggae Artist of the Year

Buggy

Kirk Brown

Hotta Flames

Jazz Artist of the Year

Kellie CaDogan

Rosemary Phillips

Black Clay Soil

Gospel Artist of the Year

Mya Daniel

Sheldon Hope

Toni Norville

Soca Artist of the Year

TC

RPB

Edwin Yearwood

Pop / Rock / Alternative Artist of the Year

Philip 7

Kite

Rihanna

Rap / Hip- Hop Artist of the Year

Trezay

Nitro

Ruby Tech

Soul / R&B Artist of the Year

Shontelle

Jaicko

Ayana John

Band / Group of the Year

Krosfyah

Strategy

Fully Loaded

Entertainer of the Year (Male)

Edwin Yearwood

Kirk Brown

RPB

Blood

Buggy

Entertainer of the Year (Female)

Alison Hinds

Shontelle

Rihanna

Ayana John

TC

Song of the Decade

Rupee- Tempted To Touch

Edwin and Khiomal- Sak Passe

Biggie Irie- Nah Going Home

Alison Hinds- Roll

Rihanna- Umbrella

Band / Group of the Decade

Krosfyah

Strategy

Massala

Fully Loaded

The Merrymen

Entertainer of the Decade (Male)

Edwin Yearwood

RPB

Rupee

Anderson “Blood” Armstrong

L’il Rick

Entertainer of the Decade (Female)

Alison Hinds

Rihanna

Toni Norville

TC

Natahlee

2010 BMA HONOUREES

Cornerstone Awards

Arturo Valentino

JoAnne Sealey

Andrea Gollop- Greenidge

ANTHONY BRYAN

Natahlee

Herring

Biggie Irie

John Sealy

John Roett

Tony Thompson

Lifetime Achievement Award

Tony Hoyos

Living Legend

Marvo Manning

BMA Award of Excellence

Terencia “TC” Coward

BMA Platinum Award

Shontelle- (Shontelligence, T Shirt)

International Award of Excellence

Toni Braxton

Fantasia Barrino

International Lifetime Achievement Award (In Memoriam)

Michael Jackson

Those of you that thought that all the NCF was bout was making money , shame on you NCF haters! Allow me to bring your attention to this fantastic workshop opportunity that the National Cultural Foundation is organizing.

It’s a Song Writing Workshop that commences from 15^th September, bare big names are presenting at it and the best part is, its absolutely free!

So if you feel you have potential to write a song but didn’t know how this is what you have been looking for, if you already write, there’s nothing wrong with listening to others who have excelled in the artform and getting some tips on how to improve your skills.

Otherwise you might end up like me; I obviously need a writing workshop myself.

Look who in it (told you I needed writing lessons) calypsonian Chalkdust from Trinidad and our own Red Plastic Bag, so what are you waiting for? Did I mention it is free?

Check the official email below sent out by NCF for more information.

You are invited to the Errol Barrow Centre for Creative Imagination (EBCCI) in collaboration with the Ministry of Community Development & Culture and The National Cultural Foundation presents The Song Writing Workshop. September 15, 2009                                                        Public Lecture by Dr. Hollis “Chalkdust” Liverpool September 16 – 18, 2009                                              Workshop sessions with Dr. Hollis “Chalkdust” Liverpool September 19, 2009 (10:00 am – 3:00 pm)             Special Workshop Session for Junior Calypsonians with Dr. Hollis “Chalkdust” LiverpoolSeptember 23 – 25, 2009                                              Workshop sessions with Mr. Stedson “Red Plastic Bag” Wiltshire September 19, 2009 (10:00 am – 3:00 pm)             Special Workshop Session for Junior Calypsonians with Mr. Stedson “Red Plastic Bag” Wiltshire October 1, 2009                                                                Workshop for Arrangers with Mr. Roger Gittens.

If I were Rihanna Fenty I would run like hell when I heard the statements that Chris Brown made while speaking out on the now infamous assualt incident on the CNN Larry King show.

Brown is quoted as saying that his relationship with Rihanna was similar to that of Romeo and Juliet, well I don’t know if that is supposed to strike some romantic chord or bring some level of comfort, but as I recalled, in the classic Shakespeare story both Romeo and Juliet ended up dead.

Despite the several other beatings which Chris inflicted on Rihanna he says he still loves her. That’s so damn romantic then it almost brings a tear to my freaking eye.
I am sick and tired as ass of this flawed concept where a bouts of vicious abuse inflicted from one person to a next is misconstrued as love.
Sick of reading in the media of some deranged “lover” in a bout of passion kill his partner and sometimes themselves in a fit of passion and it is then romanticly said that “love drove them to it”.
“Love” my ass!…
I have no problem with you killing yourself, if you stupid enough to kill yourself over a woman that’s your bewitch business, it’s when you decide to take others with you I have an issue.
So to digress back to my original point, if Chris Brown want to describe himself as Romeo and dispatch himself in the name of love that is his business.
But if I were Rihanna and I hear my ex man talking bout we like Romeo and Juliet, I would pick up my foot and run run run.
There is nothing romantic about relationships which ends in death.

Chris with his mummy on CNN

*Pboyce Note; the Court also ordered Chris to stay at least 100 yards away from Rihanna, so if anything happens it would have to be long distance love