Jamaica Gleaner News - Royal treatment for Tarrus Riley at Reggae Academy Awards - Tuesday

Royal treatment for Tarrus Riley at Reggae Academy Awards
published: Tuesday | February 26, 2008

Singer Tarrus Riley with one of the four awards he won at Sunday's Reggae Academy Awards, at the National Indoor Sports Centre. - Colin Hamilton/Freelance Photographer

ROOTS-REGGAE singer Tarrus Riley, who captured the imagination with his sensational album, Parables, won four awards at the inaugural Reggae Academy Awards, held Sunday evening at the National Indoor Sports Centre.

Riley won the Best Reggae Song, Best Solo Male Vocal Performance, Breakthrough Reggae Artiste and Most Popular Song categories.

His ballad, She's Royal, earned him the Best Reggae Song and Most Popular Song awards.

Stephen Marley won two awards: Best Reggae Album for his Grammy-winning Mind Control, and Best Music Producer.

There were three special awards.

Island Records founder, Chris Blackwell, got the Reggae Trailblazer Award, while guitarist Ernie Ranglin, Blackwell's righthand man when he started Island in 1959, won the Reggae Legend Award.

Bob Marley, who came to international prominence in the 1970s with Island and recorded with Ranglin at producer Clement Dodd's Studio One in the 1960s, was named Reggae Legend.

Reggae Academy Award winners

Best Reggae Song - She's Royal Omar 'Tarrus' Riley

(Songwriter's Award)

Best Solo Male Vocal Performance - She's Royal, Tarrus Riley

Best Solo Female Reggae Vocal Performance - Roots, Etana

Best Reggae Album -

Mind Control, Stephen Marley

Best Instrumental Recording/Album - Making Notes, Robbie Lyn

Best Solo Male Dancehall Vocal Performance - Nah Go A Jail, Busy Signal

Best Female Dancehall Vocal Performance - Chat To Me Back, Lady Saw

Best Dancehall Vocal

(Performance by duo or group) - Love Is Wicked, Brick and Lace

Best Dancehall Album -

Intoxication, Shaggy

Best Dancehall Video - Church Heathen Remix, Jay Will

Breakthrough Reggae Artiste - Tarrus Riley

Best Dancehall Riddim - Tremor, Stephen McGregor

Best Gospel Album - Prodigal Son, Prodigal Son

Best Gospel Song - Can't Stop Now, Kemoy Rowe, William Barclay and Courick Clarke

(Songwriter's Award)

Best Music Producer - Stephen Marley

Best International Reggae/Dancehall Artiste - Collie Budz

Best Reggae Compilation Album - Jamdown Riddim Driven, Delmar Drummond Dangerzone

(Executive Producer's Award)

Best Reggae Video - She's Royal Rupert Campbell

(Video Director's Award)

Best Reggae Recording - She's Royal, Romel Marshall

(Engineer's Award)

Best Reggae Vocal Performance (Duo, Group, Collaboration) -

On My Mind, Da'Ville and Sean Paul

Best Dub Recording or Album - Live As One, Zion Train

Breakthrough Dancehall Artiste - Munga Honourable

Best Reggae Riddim - Guardian Angel, Arif Cooper/Fresh Ear

(Producer's Award)

Best Dancehall Song - Nah Go A Jail Again, Reanno 'Busy Signal' Gordon

(Songwriters' Award)

Best Dancehall Compilation

(two or more artistes) - Tremor Riddim Driven, Stephen McGregor/Big Ship Music

Best Dancehall Recording -

One Loaf a Bread, Damian Marley (Engineer's Award)

Best Solo Male Vocal Gospel - This Place, Prodigal Son

Performance

Best Solo Female Gospel Performance - Pray For Peace, Chevelle Franklyn

Best Vocal Gospel Performance

by a group, duo or collaboration -

Ketch A Fyah, Prodigal Son and Jason Mighty

Best Gospel Music Video - Gully People Supen, Andrew Grey

(Video Director's Award)

Most Popular Song - She's Royal, Tarrus Riley (People's Choice Award)