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Stevie Hawkins
emerged as a winner at the 2012 Artists
In Music Awards ceremonies held Friday,
February 10, 2012, at the Key Club in
Hollywood. The red carpet event was
streamed live online worldwide.
Selected from five finalists, Hawkins
received his award in the Jazz Category
as "Best Jazz Artist".
Hawkins was also a nominee in the Blues
Category as "Best Blues
Artist".
A celebrity vibe
and buzz surrounded the event that
began at 7:00 p.m. at the Key Club on
Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood, with the
nominees being photographed and
interviewed on the red carpet by press
and Taylor Van Arsdale of Tailfish
Productions, and Carmel Love of Hostile
Magazine. The awards ceremony and show
began at 8:00 p.m., emceed by AIMA
Executive Producer Mikey Jayy and
Samantha Starr among others. Dynamic
live performances were given by artists
who were up for award nominations, to
include the show closer, Monte Pittman,
guitarist for Madonna, who won the
award for Best Solo Artist.
When asked how he
felt when his name was announced as the
winner for best jazz artist, Stevie
said, "While walking toward the
stage, hearing my song "Everything
Is Subject To Change" playing,
co-written with Charlotte Hannon, the
feeling was a combination of excitement
and dreamlike. Very much like receiving
the news about the initial nomination
for the award, took a while to get my
head wrapped around accepting the
reality of it."
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Hawkins also said, “I congratulate everyone who was
nominated for the awards, and wish them abundance
in continued success. I am very grateful for the
honor of receiving this award, that comes as a
surprise. This is a humbling moment, and very
gratifying to know that jazz music remains a
vibrant and exciting musical form, and that I can
contribute to its vitality. I’d like to thank God
for this blessing, Charlotte Hannon, who’s been
such a strong contributor and supporter to and of
my career, my children Deanna, Justin and Miranda,
my parents Peggy and Bill Clark, my sister Robin
Blizzard, my brother Scott Rupe and his wife
Seanna, and to the mentors and musicians along the
way who have helped to shape and mold who I am
musically today, too numerous to mention here. I
would also like to thank 2012 Artists In Music
Awards Executive Producer Mikey Jayy, and the
judges for the nomination and for their decision of
selecting me for the award. I wish to also thank
the DJs and Program Directors at radio around the
world for their support and airplay of my current
album release "What The Funk?". The
Artists In Music Awards and its creator Mikey Jayy
are providing another solid foundation stone for
the advancement and recognition of the global
independent artists movement, and this is only the
beginning. My musical journey thus far has been an
interesting one, and one that shall continue on
into the future.”
Winners of this year's Artists
In Music Awards will be asked to perform and
present awards for the 2013 awards event in the
categories of which they won this year.
Music industry professionals in
attendance supporting Stevie Hawkins were, Lacy
Darryl Phillips (a.k.a. Uncle Earl) radio host of
The Underground Experience on KCLA-FM and KLED-FM
Los Angeles, Jason Roberson radio host of JaAndLu
Underground and The JaAndLu Super Show on XSite
Radio Los Angeles, and Miles Grayson legendary soul
and blues producer from Los Angeles.
For further information
regarding the awards, please visit the All Indie
Music Awards website. http://www.aimusicawards.com
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