Baker Boy provides to his heaving assortment of trophies with a hattrick on the Music Victoria Awards, introduced Tuesday (Dec. 13) in central Melbourne.
The Contemporary Prince of Arnhem Land, and he’s identified in these elements, was the massive winner, topping classes for greatest regional act, greatest music and the coveted greatest album honor for his full-length debut Gela (Island Information/Common Music Australia), which peaked at No. 3 on the ARIA Chart.
The singer, songwriter, rapper and dancer entered the occasion in nice awards kind. He was a dominant power on the 2022 ARIA Awards final month, the place he collective 5 wins, together with album of the 12 months, greatest hip-hop/rap launch, and greatest solo artist.
Additionally, on the 2022 NIMAs in August, he took house artist of the 12 months and album of the 12 months. In 2021, the 12 months Gela was launched, Baker Boy acquired an Order Of Australia (OAM) medal for “service to the performing arts as a singer and musician,” to go together with his younger Australian of the 12 months honor, from 2019.
Along with his Music Victoria triumph, Baker Boy (actual title Danzal Baker) boasts eighth Music Victoria Awards, together with 4 scooped in 2018.
Following the discharge of Pre Pleasure (Liberation Information/Mushroom Group), Julia Jacklin gained the Music Victoria Award for greatest solo artist. Jacklin’s critically-acclaimed third studio album hit No. 2 on the ARIA Chart, No. 1 on the ARIA Australian Album and Vinyl charts, and final month took out the ARIA for greatest grownup modern album.
Organized by commerce physique Music Victoria, the awards have been determined by a panel of greater than 200 music consultants, and the “largest public voting response” in its 17-year historical past, organizers say. This 12 months’s in-person ceremony befell at The Edge, on Federation Sq..
Different winners on the night time included soul artist Emma Donovan and her band The Putbacks (greatest group); Noongar lady and Naarm artist Bumpy (the Archie Roach Basis Award for rising expertise); “Native Tongue” singer Mo’Ju (greatest soul, funk, R&B or gospel work); punk band Pinch Factors (greatest rock or punk work); Harvey Sutherland (greatest digital act); Georgia State Line (greatest nation), and Alice Ivy (greatest producer).
In one of many particular moments of the occasion, Deborah Conway, the singer, songwriter and one-time chief of post-punk outfit Do-Re-Mi, was inducted into the group’s Corridor of Fame. Georgia State Line Conway’s paid musical tribute with a canopy of Conway’s superb love-struck quantity “It’s Solely the Starting.”
“I performed my first gig 44 years in the past and was hooked,” Conway stated from the rostrum. “Music has been my lifelong map. I’ve adopted the nicely lit method, the rocky again alleys, the detours and shortcuts, labored and performed with unbelievable folks in extraordinary locations for the very best and worst audiences and the worst and greatest sound and my curiosity has by no means flagged; how great to be rewarded for doing one thing you’d do regardless.”
In the meantime, Helen Marcou & Ian “Quincy” McLean of Bakehouse Studios have been inducted into the Corridor of Fame, for his or her tireless efforts in supporting the nation’s music tradition.
The Music Victoria Awards 2022 Winners
Corridor of Fame Inductees: Deborah Conway AM, Helen Marcou AM & Ian ‘Quincy’ McLean AM
Greatest Album: Baker Boy – Gela
Greatest Musician: Xani Kolac
Greatest Tune: Baker Boy – Survive
Greatest Group: Emma Donovan & The Putbacks
Greatest Producer: Alice Ivy
Greatest Solo Artist: Julia Jacklin
Greatest DJ: MzRizk and Jennifer Loveless (Tied award)
Greatest Regional Act: Baker Boy
MAV Diasporas Award: Charles Maimarosia
Greatest Blues Work: Checkerboard Lounge
Greatest Nation Work: Georgia State Line
Greatest Digital Work: Harvey Sutherland
Greatest Experimental or Avant-Garde Work: The Amplified Elephants
Greatest Folks Work: Kerryn Fields
Greatest Heavy Work: Outright
Greatest Hip Hop Work: MAMMOTH. & Silent Jay
Greatest Jazz Work: Barney McAll
Greatest Pop Work: The Stroppies
Best Reggae or Dancehall Work: JahWise
Greatest Rock Or Punk: Pinch Factors
Greatest Soul, Funk, RNB or Gospel Work: Mo’Ju
Arts Entry Amplify Award: Evelyn Ida Morris
The Archie Roach Basis Award for Rising Expertise: Bumpy
Greatest Metro Competition: Brunswick Music Competition: Wurundjeri
Greatest Regional Competition: Port Fairy Folks Competition (Gunditjmara)
Greatest Massive Venue (Metro): Discussion board Melbourne (Wurundjeri and Boonwurrung)
Greatest Small Venue (Metro): Brunswick Ballroom (Wurundjeri)
Greatest Regional Venue (Established): Caravan Music Membership – Archies Creek (Boonwurrung)
Greatest Regional Venue (Underneath 50 Gigs): Daylesford Resort (Dja Dja Wurrung)
