BMI To Honor Cam’ron, NORE, Juvenile, Others

BMI recently announced the first confirmed attendees to its Urban Awards 2002, which are scheduled to take place August 6th at Club Tropigala at the Fountainebleau Hilton Resorts & Towers in Miami Beach, Florida. The first annual Urban Awards will recognize such Urban songwriters and publishers as Cam’ron, NORE, Big Tymers, Juvenile, the Neptunes, Rockwilder […]

BMI recently announced the first confirmed attendees

to its Urban Awards 2002, which are scheduled to take place August 6th at Club

Tropigala at the Fountainebleau Hilton Resorts & Towers in Miami Beach,

Florida.

The first annual Urban Awards will recognize

such Urban songwriters and publishers as Cam’ron,

NORE, Big Tymers, Juvenile, the Neptunes, Rockwilder and others.

Songwriting wizards Dallas Austin, Rodney Jerkins

and the Neptunes Pharrell Williams will produce a musical tribute to the evenings

BMI ICON, James The Godfather Of Soul" Brown. Brown is being recognized

for his innovations and contributions to music and the music business. The first

ICON Awards were presented in May to fellow pioneers Chuck Berry, Bo Diddley

and Little Richard.

The BMI Urban Awards will recognize the songwriters

and publishers of the most-played Urban songs on the U.S. radio and television.

An Urban Song of the Year, Songwriter of the Year and Publisher of the Year

will be named that night. In addition to the song awards, BMI will also honor

the Top Producers of 2001-2002 and the BMI writers whose songs hit #1 spot on

the Billboard R&B/Hip Hop Charts.

The black-tie, invitation-only event will be

held to coincide with Billboard’s R&B/Hip Hop Conference & Awards, also

in Miami Beach.

The 2001 Urban Awards presentation, scheduled

for October 3rd last year, was canceled due to the events of 9/11, although

the actual awards were later distributed to the winners. BMI honored its Latin

music songwriters and publishers May 8th with the 9th Annual Latin Awards in

Hollywood, Florida.