Within the first of two winners’ bulletins for the O2 Silver Clef Awards 2023, Nordoff and Robbins is worked up to honour worldwide celebrity and cultural icon Stormzy with the flagship O2 Silver Clef Award. The O2 Silver Clef Award is essentially the most prestigious award of the day, honouring artists of the best calibre who proceed to affect the music business with their excellent careers and contribution to music. Earlier legendary winners embody: David Bowie, Ed Sheeran, Roger Waters, Paul McCartney, George Michael, Annie Lennox, Dame Shirley Bassey, Kylie Minogue, The Rolling Stones, Oasis and Coldplay.
Moist Leg will obtain the New Music Award and Biffy Clyro win Greatest Dwell Act. Pop icon NenehCherry is given Excellent Achievement, the legendary Mark King of Stage 42 will obtain the esteemed Icon Award, and Ayanna Witter-Johnson wins the Classical Award.
Winners of Greatest Male, Greatest Feminine, Greatest Group, Worldwide and Innovation might be introduced in June, forward of the ceremony.
The O2 Silver Clef Awards are held to recognise and have fun the expertise of the successful artists. Since 1976, the awards have raised £12 million for Nordoff and Robbins’ very important music remedy providers and honoured a number of the best names in music, with final yr’s occasion elevating over £750,000; together with £200,000 from the public sale of George Michael’s private piano, kindly donated by the George Michael property. In 2022, Nordoff and Robbins held practically 50,000 music remedy classes throughout the UK for a number of the most remoted individuals in society, and the necessity for music remedy is bigger than it has ever been.
Nordoff and Robbins’ imaginative and prescient is to dwell in a world the place by means of music remedy, human potential is recognised no matter profound incapacity, sickness or social exclusion. Formed by greater than 60 years of apply, its skilled music therapists use the facility of music to rework individuals’s lives by serving to them specific themselves and join with others. The charity works with youngsters and adults affected by life limiting sickness akin to dementia, studying disabilities together with autism, bodily incapacity and psychological well being points at over 350 colleges, hospitals, hospices and care properties, in addition to offering classes from its centres nationwide.
Hosted with O2, the annual lunch is without doubt one of the highlights of the music business calendar, bringing collectively artists, celeb supporters and influencers to lift very important funds for the music remedy charity.The awards are the largest fundraising occasion of the yr for Nordoff and Robbins, due to desk gross sales, sponsorship and particular auctions on the day, serving to its skilled music therapists to help a number of the most weak individuals within the UK.
Offered by Edith Bowman for the fifth-year operating, with Peter Andre overlaying the blue carpet celeb arrivals for the third time, the awards recognise and have fun the highly effective affect of music on all members of our society.
• Receiving the flagship O2 Silver Clef Award, Stormzy is a multi-award-winning musician who hails from South London, England. His three albums to this point; ‘Gang Indicators & Prayer’, ‘Heavy Is The Head’ and ‘This Is What I Imply’ all completed at #1 within the UK album chart, with the previous two subsequently being nominated for the celebrated Mercury Music Prize. His exceptional ascent has been accompanied by his sincere and relatable character. A real spokesman of black empowerment and social activism, Stormzy is without doubt one of the UK’s most inspiring figureheads who has persistently stood up for individuals from all areas of life; encouraging his followers and listeners alike to talk brazenly about their beliefs and struggle for his or her rights.
• The award for Ticketmaster Greatest New Music will go to indie rock artists Moist Leg, whose self-titled album debuted at No 1 on the UK Albums Chart in 2022.
• One of many UK’s most profitable rock bands, with three No 1 albums and quite a few headline units from Studying and Leeds to Obtain, Biffy Clyro might be awarded the PizzaExpress Dwell Greatest Dwell Act Award.
• Swedish singer-songwriter, rapper and cultural icon Neneh Cherry will decide up the Tysers Excellent Achievement Award in recognition of her influential profession beginning with the worldwide success of her debut single ‘Buffalo Stance’ and album ‘Uncooked Like Sushi’ in 1989. In 2019, Neneh launched new solo albums and started touring extensively together with dates at Glastonbury and the Hollywood Bowl. In 2022, Neneh launched ‘The Variations’, a group of her best hits lined by artists together with Sia, Robyn and Greentea Peng.
• The legendary Mark King will obtain the American Specific Icon Award. As lead singer and bass participant of funk-rock icons Stage 42, King achieved a string of High Ten hits all through the Eighties together with ‘The Solar Goes Down (Residing It Up) (1984), ‘Classes in Love’ (1985), Operating within the Household (1987) and ‘Staring on the Solar’ (1988). Now celebrating over 40 years with Stage 42, Mark continues to please audiences world wide.
• Multi-talented singer, songwriter, pianist and cellist Ayanna Witter-Johnson will decide up the PPL Classical Award, in recognition of her distinctive boundary crossing music.
Moist Leg mentioned: “To the hunnies at Nordoff and Robbins, tysm for selecting us for Greatest new music award!?! We’re blushing pink as lobsters 🦞 😳 We’re so stoked to be supporting Nordoff and Robbins to convey music to those that want it most! Via their work, they supply music therapists to remoted youngsters and adults which permits them to interrupt down obstacles while making actual connections with different individuals. xx.”
Biffy Clyro mentioned: “We’re so happy to obtain the Greatest Dwell Act Award. A few of our favorite reminiscences have been created on stage and nothing compares to the response from a dwell viewers. Music brings us collectively in such a novel method– all individuals – from non-verbal youngsters to older individuals with dementia can actually reply and talk within the music remedy classes, which is why Nordoff and Robbins’ work is so extremely vital.”
Neneh Cherry mentioned: “I’m delighted to be chosen for the Excellent Achievement Award. I’ve lately seen first-hand the unimaginable work that Nordoff and Robbins’ skilled music therapists perform with a number of the most weak members of our society. For a lot of, the classes will be transformative. I’ve labored with so many implausible artists in my profession and I’m proud to help a charity which goals to present all people entry to the facility of music.”
Mark King mentioned: “I’m past thrilled to be chosen as recipient of the Icon Award this yr. I am doubly delighted as I’ve been an enthusiastic supporter of Nordoff and Robbins for the final 15 years. Usually individuals receiving music remedy discover it tough to speak with the world by means of phrases, and I’ve frolicked at their London centre and witnessed the enjoyment that shoppers really feel when they’re being really heard by means of music. Music is common – whichever nation I tour, it’s our widespread language. Serving to to lift funds for this excellent charity which has music at its core is such a blessing.”
Ayanna Witter-Johnson mentioned: “Tremendous excited to be amassing the Classical Award. Musically I really feel at house in plenty of genres from classical to RnB, reggae, soul and jazz, and have at all times mixed them permitting me the musical freedom to have interaction with a large breadth of audiences, and showcase my genuine, numerous self. You will need to recognise the varied ways in which we will attain individuals by means of music. That is why I help Nordoff and Robbins, who’re working onerous to interrupt down these communication boundaries that exist for many individuals, in order that they are often totally heard and their individuality will be expressed.”
