{"id":8737,"date":"2009-10-20T13:03:32","date_gmt":"2009-10-20T13:03:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tat.reddaisytrading.co.uk\/index.php\/2009\/10\/20\/nomination-joy-for-asian-producers-rdb\/"},"modified":"2009-10-20T13:03:32","modified_gmt":"2009-10-20T13:03:32","slug":"nomination-joy-for-asian-producers-rdb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/2009\/10\/20\/nomination-joy-for-asian-producers-rdb\/","title":{"rendered":"Nomination joy for Asian producers RDB"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Double Urban Music Awards nomination for talented brothers<\/h3>\n
\"\"ACCLAIMED music producers RDB have been nominated for two awards at the forthcoming Urban Music Awards.<\/strong> <\/div>\n

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The DJ brothers, Kully, Manj and Surj will compete with a host of mainstream stars at the ceremony next month in a bid to land awards for Best UK Asian Act and Best Band. <\/div>\n

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The Urban Music Awards will celebrate its 7th<\/sup> show this year and are held annually. <\/div>\n

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RDB, who have been making and producing music for over a decade, are best known for their fusion of Bhangra and Garage. <\/div>\n

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Recently the group have moved into the realm of Bollywood, working on films including Namastey London and Singh is Kinng. <\/div>\n

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The brothers will compete with chart topping bands including The Noisettes, N Dubz and JLS for the Best Band gong, while the likes of Jay Sean and M.I.A will provide stiff competition for the Best UK Asian Act award \u2013 a new category which has been introduced to the UMA\u2019s this year. <\/div>\n

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\u201cWe are thrilled at the news,\u201d RDB\u2019s Surj said. <\/div>\n

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\u201cIt\u2019s an honour that our work is getting recognised and we are pushing Asian music in the right way. It\u2019s brilliant that the UMA\u2019s have a category for British Asian Music.\u201d<\/div>\n

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Jordan Kensington from the UMA\u2019s said: \u201cAlways striving to be the multi-cultural melting pot for talent, the UMA\u2019s are proud to also launch the Best Asian Music Act category to promote and increase the exposure and awareness for acts of Asian origin. <\/div>\n

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\u201cThe Urban Music Awards will allow the millions of followers of music and musicians of Asian origin throughout the UK the opportunity to vote for their favourite Asian Music act to win this prestigious award.\u00a0 <\/div>\n

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\u201cAlso, the launch of this new category will also give birth to the Desi UMA rising star competition. The competition will see entries from lesser known British Asian acts from all around the UK with the winner to be selected,\u00a0 announced\u00a0 an giving an opportunity to perform live\u00a0 at the UMA\u2019s\u00a0 next month\u2019\u2019<\/div>\n

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The UMA\u2019s will take place on 1st<\/sup> November 2009 <\/div>\n

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Double Urban Music Awards nomination for talented brothers ACCLAIMED music producers RDB have been nominated for two awards at the forthcoming Urban Music Awards. The DJ brothers, Kully, Manj and Surj will compete with a host of mainstream stars at the ceremony next month in a bid to land awards for Best UK Asian […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11753,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8737","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8737"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8737\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}