Vegim is nominated for Regional Performer of the Year for Ambassador Award
Audiences can now vote for the fifth award of the Ambassador Awards of electronic music, which is awarded this year in a total of 28 categories. Recognitions for the best achievements in 2020 will be awarded on March 19 at the Gervais Center in Opatija, and the audience can vote for their favorites in five Croatian and five regional categories, while the jury will award the prize in a total of 18 categories.
Through open public applications, 50 proposals were received, and as many as 770 proposals in the pre-nomination cycle were submitted by 80 members of the expert working group from Croatia and the region. This year, a lifetime achievement award will be given, which will be decided by the Founder of the award and the Supervisory Board of the Ambassador.
One of the nominees in the category for regional performers of the year is Kosovo techno DJ and producer Vegim. A constructive artist who draws inspiration from everything, on the electronic music scene is for two decades. He is known to the audience for his performances around the world and the production of hypnotic and moving, impulsive techno. In addition to Vegim, Slovenian DJ and producer Umek, Billain from BiH and Coeus and Space Motion from Serbia were also nominated.
“This year, the Kosovo scene is included in the Croatian Ambassador Awards of electronic music, so in the category for the region, for the artist of the year was nominated artist from Kosovo, Vegim, who represented the Kosovo electronic scene through performances at festivals such as Exit festival in Novi Sad, Serbia and the Technophilia festival in Merida, Spain. Other artists from the region are in the race, one of them the famous Umek. It will be a rough race for this category, "said Next Lavel founder Ardin Badivuku.
In its jubilee 5th edition, the Ambassador lights up in red to indicate the great crisis that has hit the Croatian and regional music industry, but also the cultural sector as a whole. All visuals of this year's award will be red and will stand out with the slogan #RedAlert.
Even in times of crisis, the Ambassador works to strengthen the stage and encourage the cooperation of music, so as part of the activities of the award, he starts the discursive program Symposium. Experts from the electronic music industry at the Symposium will discuss current topics in several panels, and the audience will be able to join the conversation. The symposium is the first step in the direction of launching a music conference that will serve as a platform for cooperation and connecting the participants of the scene, but also to point out the problems faced by the electronic music industry.
The audience can support their favorites by voting on the Ambassador Award website until February 26, 2021., while the voting of the jury will last from 13 to 28 February 2021.
🔊 The online voting for Nagrada Ambasador Awards started and will end on 26. February 2021 ‼️
📌 You can vote for your favorite Croatian and regional artists here 👉 http://bit.ly/glasanje21
📌 or you can just vote for the regional performer of the year here: 👉 https://bit.ly/3rPUEsC