Soca not recognised at UMAs

Posted: 10th Oct 2009

The Urban Music Awards are due to take place here in London for the 7th annual awards show in November. As the nominations have now been announced, yet again the Soca Category has been left out.

Urban Music Awards claims that they are "The NO. 1 premiere R&B, HipHop, Soul and Dance Music awards ceremony in the world" So why are UMAs recognising all these catergories with the exception to Soca?

"The Urban Music Awards was born out of the need to build a worldwide and independent awards ceremony to recognise the achievement of urban based artists, producers, club nights, dj’s , radio stations, record labels and artist that are or were previously unrecognised within their country of origin and are a product of the current Dance/R&B, HipHop, Neo Soul, Jazz, Grime, Garage and D&B music scene."

If the UMA board would kindly like to enlighten us as to why there is no Soca category?


Written By: Nadia Auckburally